PAST: Mottos, Mantras, and Movable Type - Small Poster Workshop
Price
$150
Duration
Saturday, October 5, 2024, 10:00 AM 4:00 PM
About the Course
Print a letterpress poster with your personal mantra. In this one-day workshop students will learn typesetting techniques, with a focus on lead type, to create a set of twenty 8x10 poster prints. This class will teach the primary skills of letterpress printing using type from Signal-Return’s extensive collection. Each participant will learn how to properly compose, lock-up, and print a form on our presses.
Bring quotes, jokes, words of wisdom, or your favorite text to class to see in print.Think short and sweet. Try to keep text within 8 words or less and/or 60 letters.
Cost of workshop includes materials, instruction by S-R staff and takeaway prints. Paper in this workshop is from French Paper Company, a small Michigan Paper Mill around for more than 140 years.
PRICE: $150
Class Size: Maximum 8
Register on the Signal-Return Website, here.
Your Instructor
Liz Isakson-Dado at Signal-Return
Signal-Return is a Detroit nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and teaching traditional letterpress printing, and building a community center for art, craft, design and collaboration.
9301 Kercheval Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48214