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.