#vandercook press

ITS DONE PRINT FINAL IS DONE ONE MORE FINAL TO GO THEN LET ME OUT OF THIS FUCKING HELL HOLE- I WILL FLOOD THIS PRISON WITH MY TEARS IF I HAVE TO IN ORDER TO ESCAPE ALL 9 CIRCLES OF HELL-

Hey, good-lookin’! What you got Vandercookin’?

Today I was on the Vandercook press, printing all day. It was very satisfying to get so much done. The book is getting a little closer to being finished...

Approx. 8 x 9.5 inches. 

Each page of this book features a different historical typeface, from a 72 point Della Robbia for 'A' to a 16 point Poliphilus for 'Z'. The type faces decrease in size over the length of the book. Each page of the book has one more letter of the alphabet than the previous page, and each page is slightly longer than the page previous page. When the cover and title page are lifted the whole alphabet can be read, with each letter showing in a different font. Most of the books were stitched at the spine but a few are held together instead with a Chicago screw and can be spread out in a fan or spiral.  The book is 1.5 inches tall, 18.75 inches long and half an inch thick at the spin. It took over 8 months to design, print and hand stitch the whole edition (of 38).

Another recent letterpress project was this poem which I wrote and set into a square-spiral. It look three tries before I was able to accurately judge the line lengths and make it all fit together. The poem is about a labyrinth, which is why I wanted to print it in this shape. I printed this same poem, but set differently, in my pages for "Erratica". Done in black acrylic ink on the Vandercook press.