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A Chief Ink Maker shows how colour and ink is created from the raw ingredients–powder, varnish, and passion. Everything designers and printers need to know about the process, the challenges and joy of ink making.

Find out more about us at: http://www.theprintinginkcompany.ca/

Presented by Peter Welfare, president and head inkmaker, The Printing Ink Company.

The Printing Ink Company:
True Performance in Colour

Written and produced by
Ian Daffern

http://www.iandaffern.ca/

Directed and Edited by
Tate Young

http://www.tateyoung.com

http://www.vepostudios.com/

Photographed by Tony Edgar

http://www.tonyedgar.com/

Although the way we read may change, our passion for the written word is left unaffected by format. Who would know better than NYC-based editor, writer, and consultant Andrew Losowksy, whom we met at the offices of The Huffington Post, where he is Books Editor. Losowksy has conceived and contributed to numerous books, including Gestalten's Turning Pages and Visual Storytelling, as well as We Love Magazines and We Make Magazines. In our Gestalten.tv feature, Losowsky talks about the various methods of storytelling in the digital age and why hitting the right note on the web doesn't always translate into a compelling print product (and vice versa).

A vector-driven router puts the finishing touches on Matthew Carter’s Van Lanen font. When cutting fine interior angles the router bit lifts to create sharp corners

Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, est. 1880

The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, located in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production, and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, Hamilton’s collection is one of the premier wood type collections in the world. In addition to wood type, the Museum is home to an array of advertising woodcuts from the 1930s through the 1970s. A “living” museum, Hamilton hosts numerous cutting demonstrations and printing workshops for visitors.

The ever amazing Field Notes have just launched a new collection of memo books, The National Crop Edition, which brings them back to their roots. The whole Field Notes brand is inspired by the long tradition of promotional books distributed to American farmers across the 19th Century and this particular collection celebrates this with a series of books dedicated to farmers and the 6 leading crops they grow. Using 7 different paper stocks, each book is a different colour and full of information about American corn, soybeans, hay, wheat, cotton and sorghum.

see more over at http://prote.in/feed/2012/04/from-seed

Bauer Bodoni letterpress print designed by Jim Williams an award winning typographer & graphic designer who has a lifelong passion for the craft of typography and letterforms.

Following the success of the sold out 2011 edition, the designers wall stickers, posters & the letterpress coasters, the designer and editor of the famous Graphic-Exchange Fabien Barral is pleased to present you this 2012 letterpress calendar project. 19x12 cm, 13 cards on 480g ecoboard 100% recycled. Limited edition to 500 copies, hand numbered. Letterpress printed by Lettera Magica. Poland

3D Boy Poster

This print is the result of a collaboration between illustrator/painter/art maker Oliver Jeffers and swissmiss’ Tina Roth Eisenberg. Quirky and fun, this three color poster measures out at 11″ x 14,” printed in our Minneapolis studio on Crane Lettra Flo White 110lb cover stock. Does anybody else think popcorn sounds really good right now?

Available for purchase over on Swiss Miss.

A short film by XK9.

On January 24, 2012, XK9 descended on Aardvark Letterpress in downtown Los Angeles. Cary and Brooks Ocon and Pressman Bill Berkuta had agreed to let us to get in their way while the XK9 business cards were being printed. This film is a small document of Aardvark's excellence and what happened that day.