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Printing with Wood Type - Poster Workshop

Price

$150

Duration

Saturday, March 7, 12 pm - 6 pm

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About the Course

Make your statement in bold wood type.

In this one-day workshop students will learn typesetting techniques, with a focus on wood type, to create a set of twenty 12 x 19 inch posters


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 printing 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 signalreturnpress.org or click here for details:


https://www.signalreturnpress.org/giftcards/p/printing-with-wood-type-letterpress-poster-workshop

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

©2022-2025 by Elizabeth Isakson-Dado. 

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