Letterpress, wood and metal type


12” x 18”



This print was produced for Celebrating All Types, an exchange portfolio orchestrated by Partners in Print for the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum’s 2021 Wayzgoose. Participants were asked to consider inclusivity and civic engagement as themes, and to use wood type for at least part of their print.

This quote from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass is from the chapter titled Maple Nation. Hand set wood type and metal type, printed in multiple runs with split fountain color treatment.

Letterpress, hand-set metal type
9” x 12”

Editioned for the College Book Arts Association regional exchange in winter 2020-2021. The theme was environment/landscape/land acknowledgement, taking focus on the region we currently inhabit. I was influenced by the powerful concept of reciprocity as it relates to all life, with the Western redcedar (or “Tree of Life”) at the center.

Text is hand set in 30pt. Melior, designed by Hermann Zapf and cast by Stempel Foundry (Germany). Image is relief printed in three colors, including branches from a redcedar collected on a winter walk in the neighborhood. Printed on Classic Crest Eggshell 100#C.

Letterpress, wood and metal type

12.5” x 19”

This print was produced for Ham at 20, a portfolio of prints made in celebration of the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum’s 20th Anniversary, coordinated by Jen Farrell of Starshaped Press. Poster designed and printed in collaboration with Brian Scott Bagdonas, and in tribute to Toni Morrison. Hand set Hamilton Wood type, Linotype cast text (Intertype 14pt. Bodoni Book) and ornamental material.

Letterpress, watercolor, graphite

9” x 12”


Commissioned by the family of Norma Paulus for the public memorial service in April 2019. Typography and original artwork by Jennifer Viviano. Original poem by Wendy Willis. Design consultation and printing by Rebecca Gilbert. Printed in three colors on Fabriano Rosapina.

Photo of completed prints and folios was provided by Jennifer Viviano.

You can read more about the life of Norma Paulus in the published obituary, or by picking up her biography The Only Woman in the Room.

Letterpress, metal type

12” x 12”

This print was a collaboration with Brian Scott Bagdonas, created late at night at Stumptown Printers. Linotype cast type (14 pt Electra and 6pt Spartan heavy), Monotype and Linotype ornamental material. The sky and plant shapes were pressure printed relief using hand cut material.

Marfa Myths is a multi-day art and music festival held each spring in Marfa, TX. It was founded in 2014 by nonprofit contemporary arts foundation Ballroom Marfa and Brooklyn-based music label Mexican Summer.

Letterpress, metal type
5" x 12"

This specimen sheet is the last in a series of explorations using ornamental material, a method for testing the type as I practice casting at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry.

Monotype 26, 26B, 26C one color type ornaments cast on the Monotype Sorts Caster (Orphan Annie) at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry during public museum hours. The type is 6pt Garamond (6 ^ 274) cast on the Linotype machine at Stumptown Printers. Created for the Portland Letterpress Printers Fair.

Letterpress, metal type
5" x 12"

An exercise in pattern-making, this specimen sheet is part of a series of explorations using ornamental material, testing the alignment of type as I practice casting at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry. The design is inspired by crocheted lace patterns. 

Monotype 700 one color type ornaments cast on the Monotype Sorts Caster (Orphan Annie) at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry during public museum hours. The type is 6pt Garamond (6 ^ 274) cast on the Linotype machine at Stumptown Printers. Created for the St. Bride Library's first annual Wayzgoose.

Letterpress, metal type
5" x 12"

An exercise in border creation, this specimen sheet is part of a series of explorations using ornamental material, testing the type as I practice casting at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry.

Monotype 27 one color type ornaments cast on the Monotype Sorts Caster (Orphan Annie) at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry during public museum hours. The type is 6pt Garamond (6 ^ 274) cast on the Linotype machine at Stumptown Printers. Created in celebration of the fourth anniversary of the working museum at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry.

Letterpress, metal type
5" x 12"

An exercise in registration, this specimen sheet was the first in a series of explorations using ornamental material, a good way to test the type as I practice casting at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry. The design is inspired by textile patterns. 

Monotype 1405, 1405B, 1405C one and two color type ornaments cast on the Monotype Sorts Caster (Orphan Annie) at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry during public museum hours. The type is 6pt Garamond (6 ^ 274) cast on the Linotype machine at Stumptown Printers. Created for the American Typecasting Fellowship Conference keepsake exchange.

Letterpress, hand-set metal type
2" x 3"

This trilogy of tiny prints uses 12pt. American Type Founders Alpha-Blox, both Linear and Reverse. I used the characters to create patterns representative of the interior of an active beehive: eggs, larvae, pollen and honey stores, and the Supersedure cell that lets you know a new queen is on the way.

Letterpress, magnesium plates
4.25" x 6"

This short ghost story was written by Colin Meloy and illustrated by Carson Ellis.

Originally intended to be Monotype composed, the end version was instead printed in two colors from magnesium relief plates in a limited edition. Digitally typeset in Eric Gill's Perpetua type face. Hand sewn into paper covers with the assistance of Jules Remedios Faye. Signed and lettered editions included a 4" x 6" two color print.

Funded in part by Literary Arts Fellowships to Publishers.

Letterpress, hand-set metal type
12" x 18"

"A Word in Print" was created for the Printed Word exhibit in conjunction with the performance of Josh Kornbluth's Ben Franklin Unplugged at Portland Center Stage. The text is inspired by the aphorisms published by Franklin in the Poor Richard's Almanack.

Typefaces are foundry Franklin Gothic, Goudy Bold, Cheltenham Italic. Decorative material is Linotype border material and rule, ATF ornaments.

Letterpress, hand-set metal type
Found images
2" x 3.5"

Designed to serve as gift tags for the urban backyard farmer, these were used to adorn jars of honey, bundles of produce, or a carton of freshly laid eggs.

Type is hand-set foundry Litho Roman. "Goodness" is set with ATF ornaments, the other illustrations of a honey extractor and chicken were found randomly in a collection of cuts.

Letterpress, magnesium plates
3.25" x 5.25"

Commissioned by the author, Carolyn Winch, this accordion-style book features seasonal haiku inspired by the the desert around Bend, Oregon. Illustrations are from original ink drawings by Shuko Kawase.

Type is digitally set in Frutiger and Rusticana, letterpress printed from magnesium relief plates. Printed in six colors and hand-bound into cloth covers with a paper wrap.

Letterpress and Litho, hand-set type and metal plates
5.25" x 7.25"

A short story written by Jeff Grimes, with cover illustration by Kristin Bye.

The cover is letterpress printed with hand-set Monotype Alternate Gothic, and the original ink illustration is printed from a magnesium relief plate. Interior pages are litho offset, printed at Stumptown Printers from metal plates. The booklet is hand sewn with a pamphlet stitch.

Letterpress, hand-set metal and wood type
3.25" x 13.25"

This two-color broadside features an excerpt from the Marge Piercy poem, For strong women. Printed by permission for a Northwest printers broadside exchange, and reread many times for assurance in the past decade.

Hand-set in various sizes of ATF foundry Litho Roman originally from Dempsey and Campbell Printing Company, justified late at night. Colophon is Spartan, the "A" is beat up old wood type.