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So if you happen to be looking for a 20th c type history project to help fund, might I point you to…
The Virgin Wood Type Bible by James Grieshaber. An in depth look at the tangle of companies represented by the Virgin Wood Type company
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamesgrieshaber/the-virgin-wood-type-bible
I’m a funder, so would love to see it meet its goals!
#typography #letterpress #handset #broadsheet
The two issues of Desmond Jeffery’s Red Paper are now on @internetarchive. He devised, set and printed them in July and October of 1968 (a year when a lot was happening). Some of his earlier work is also up, and I shall be adding more.
https://archive.org/details/redpaper-1_july1968_desmondjeffery/mode/1up
https://archive.org/details/redpaper-2_october1968_desmondjeffery/mode/1up
Lordy I’m getting tired of the boosterism for artificiality. Is this what it was like to witness the invention of plastic?
Huge shout out to the material artists of the fediverse, the painters and printmakers and weavers and knitters, the photographers of actual birds and moss, the gardeners and composters, the musicians and bookshop owners, the crafters and shapers of human thought, the sex workers, the repairers, all of us here being our human selves, giving our human time, slowly and with effort.
Edited to add the much appreciated clowns of the fediverse. You make it great.
You know that idealized version of yourself that haunts you with guilt about what you haven't yet become?
They didn't show up.
They don't deserve your praise.
The you who is reading this made it here, despite everything.
This you is the garden worthy of your love and effort.
I wouldn’t normally expect a letterpress reference in a Microsoft security bulletin about a piece of Russian malware, but apparently this one has a pattern of using the word “wayzgoose” in one of its filenames?
The exploit makes use of vulnerabilities in the Windows Print Spooler service, so this makes a kind of sense, but I still find it very surprising.
Since 2019, Forest Blizzard has used a custom post-compromise tool to exploit a vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler service that allows elevated permissions. Microsoft has issued a security update addressing this vulnerability as CVE-2022-38028.
This is a very niche post, but anyone that has an interest in printing technology and typographic history should fill out this short survey on the future of the Type Archive in London which shut down and is now under the Science Museum Group:
https://www.cphc.org.uk/updates/2024/4/12/the-monotype-collection-the-next-chapter
I set myself the task to design and print 50 birds using a custom LEGO letterpress technique. This was in 2018. Figured it would take a year or so. I finished the last print earlier this year :-D
Presenting the complete series for the first time in an exhibiton in the workplace where the prints were made. Opening this weekend:
https://royscholten.nl/50-birds/
Come! :-)
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#letterpress #printmaking #LEGOletterpress #MastoArt #birds
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