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PAST: Mottos, Mantras, and Movable Type - Small Poster Workshop

Price

$150

Duration

Saturday, October 5, 2024, 10:00 AM 4:00 PM

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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.


https://www.signalreturnpress.org/workshops/mottos-mantras-and-movable-type-small-poster-workshop-with-the-aquarius-house-edprx

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

Liz Isakson-Dado at Signal-Return
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