#daredevildecember

Some great historic examples of #daredeviltypesetting which @ameliafont1 shared with me during a visit. So great they have been kept together as inspiration. #letterpress #daredeviltypesetting __________________ For #daredevildecember I’m offering free shipping on sets of Daredevil Furniture, more info in profile. (at Rochester Institute of Technology) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5-4n7Lhtu0/?igshid=1c3de09f85ez8

Toasting this amazing composizione temeraria on display at @tipotecaitaliana. Bravo! #letterpress #daredeviltypesetting #flashbackfriday #daredevildecember (at Tipoteca Italiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6B3qFJhkaC/?igshid=1t3q0y4jak553

Published in 1884, John Southward’s “Practical Printing: A Handbook of the Art of Typography” offers good advice to those embarking on adventurous type composition: “Before beginning to set up a fancy job in which curved lines and ornamental rules form the chief feature, it is advisable to make a design… The design must be both practical and in good taste. By practical, we mean it must be one that can be carried out with types…. In regard to good taste, it may be said that there are certain designs that no one of any refinement or education will even for a moment countenance.” While I’ve studiously ignored Southward’s warnings about good taste, the excellent information that follows (available via download along with his other books at archive.org) is an excellent guide on historic composing tools to handset type and rules in curves, waves and angles. An excerpt shown here includes examples of circular quads in use. #letterpress #daredeviltypesetting __________________ For #daredevildecember I’m offering free shipping on sets of Daredevil Furniture, more info in profile. https://www.instagram.com/p/B53lN11hSqb/?igshid=1mfi2fcgk56bs

As the year winds down I’m posting some experiments in typographic composition I’ve made over the years and call daredevil typesetting. A plumbing clamp belting type around a central core of electrical tape (or most anything round and lower than type high) was a strategy I employed to set circles, as shown here in an exchange with @letterpresscentral from 2010. Also shown is a demo for students of @thecaptainand a few years later. The presence and quality of my process photos parallel the iPhone, alas. #daredeviltypesetting #letterpress __________________ Note that for #daredevildecember I’m offering free shipping on any Daredevil Furniture, link in profile. https://www.instagram.com/p/B51mzNHB13A/?igshid=18awso8gg7xfw