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Don’t try to tell me you don’t inhale. | Flat Cap Speaks

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News from Flat Cap Publishing. Don’t try to tell me you don’t inhale. March 6, 2010. In this week’s New York Times Magazine, Virginia Heffernan considers her Kindle collection. One of the lovely things about a freshly letterpress printed book is that it smells of ink, sharp and heady, a solid and assertive smell that easily to outdo the weak, powdered, flat odor of warm plastic and electronics. Trust me, when you order and receive your copy of. Moby Dick Made Me Do It. March 7, 2010 at 5:38 pm. Enter you...

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Ready? Set Tpye! | Flat Cap Speaks

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News from Flat Cap Publishing. March 9, 2010. From Updike, Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use. Harvard: 1922. When I start talking to most folks about letterpress printing and how I’m printing a book, I usually find myself talking about the process for a few seconds before I’m interrupted. Wait, metal type? You mean like with all those little pieces? Like you do this by hand? I’m not going to try to make a case here for hand typesetting or hand-work of any kind over digital typesetting and aut...

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An Introduction | Flat Cap Speaks

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News from Flat Cap Publishing. February 6, 2010. Remember the segment on Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood where he would visit some kind of factory or workshop or something and you would learn how trumpets are made, or who is in charge of carving Hershey on every square of the chocolate bar (spoiler alert: nobody. It’s a machine! Or what the best part of working in the gumball factory is? It was great, right? So: what is this entrancing process we have to share with you? Moby Dick Made Me Do It. Philosophy that ...

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I hope it’s not an imposition… | Flat Cap Speaks

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News from Flat Cap Publishing. I hope it’s not an imposition…. April 19, 2010. Ages and ages ago, I wrote a little about composing type. I wrote about my love of hand-composition, despite the horror some others seem to feel at the thought of such a laborious process. And I said I’d try to follow up with further exploration of the details. Process, which I described this way: “composed type is […] secured in a metal frame called a. Which allows the type to be loaded into the press for printing”. Herewith ...

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New Website: Inter-Ocean Curiosity Studio | Flat Cap Speaks

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News from Flat Cap Publishing. New Website: Inter-Ocean Curiosity Studio. March 10, 2010. I’ve mentioned that Flat Cap’s letterpress work is happening at over at Ray and Diane Tomasso’s Inter-Ocean Curiosity Studio in Englewood, CO. There are some pictures in earlier posts from the studio, but perhaps some of you have been curious about the putative curiosities produced so industriously at Inter-Ocean. Now you can slake this urgent curiosity! Visit www.raytomasso.com. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Get ever...

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I got shot | Flat Cap Speaks

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News from Flat Cap Publishing. March 17, 2010. Borrowed from http:/ tinyurl.com/ykd8phn. I spent one day last week going to gun shops. I’m not used to gun shops I don’t own a firearm nor even care to have one. I was looking for lead shot with which to fill a leather bag. Perhaps I should back up. I’ve spent a fair bit of time during the last many months doing research on relief printmaking techniques, focusing most closely on wood engraving, hoping to use this method to provide some illustrations for.

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Progress | Flat Cap Speaks

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News from Flat Cap Publishing. February 19, 2010. Work on the new book has been underway for nearly three weeks, yet only one project-related post has made it onto the blog in that time. Why so slow? Where are all the pictures, the riveting accounts of presswork? One way to account for this situation is to point to (you could say. Here are the principle phases of our production of hand-made books:. Typesetting: composition, imposition. Press set-up and run. Composing type on the composing stick. Now, our...

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Art Storm | Flat Cap Speaks

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News from Flat Cap Publishing. April 5, 2010. Rain Torn Through Parchment Skies. Today I bring exciting news to our far-flung readership. Our good friend, loyal partner, and tireless mentor Ray Tomasso has a new show up in the gallery of Denver’s Byers-Evans House Museum. It’s a beautiful show and we’re fortunate that it will remain up and viewable into next month. One piece, titled. Bound Up by Thoughts of Moby Dick,. Bound Up by Thoughts of Moby Dick. Everyone else: Come and see the show! Blog at WordP...

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A skeleton and a midget walk into a gallery… | Flat Cap Speaks

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News from Flat Cap Publishing. A skeleton and a midget walk into a gallery…. July 16, 2010. Greetings from my knees and David’s nose and some really cool wood type! Well, we may have disappeared from the Internet, but we’ve been busy here at Flat Cap. Last week I spent several days at Inter-Ocean assisting David with the final printing of. Moby Dick Made Me Do It. At least for David…). Traditionally, these presses were operated by a team of two people on opposite sides of the press, kind of like in this ...