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Bruce Licher is a musician, artist, and designer who founded Independent Project Press after learning the art of letterpress printing at the Women's Graphic Center in downtown Los Angeles at the beginning of 1982. His initial projects centered around creating album covers, postcards, and promotional stamps for his band Savage Republic. It didn't take long before he was producing work for other Los Angeles underground music groups, along with a growing number of clients in the Los Angeles design community.

Popular Culture Printing History Typography Books

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The Aries Press of Eden, N.Y. (Deluxe Edition)

The Aries Press of Eden, N.Y. (Deluxe Edition)

By Richard Kegler

The Aries Press was an American private press founded by Spencer Kellogg, Jr., in the 1920s. A second-generation millionaire and supporter of the arts, Kellogg was influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement. Though little known today, the Aries Press produced exceptional examples of fine printing. Richard Kegler documents its colorful history accompanied by fine illustrations and samples from the Press.

Printing History Typography Books

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Printing History New Series 22

Edited By Brooke Palmieri

New Series Number 22 (Septmeber 2017)

Interview with artist Liv Rainey-Smith
“An Aesthetic History of the Ouija Board” by Jesse Ryan Erickson
“William Berry: Publisher, Scoundrel, and Spiritualist” by E. Haven Hawley
“The Lion Motif on Early Hebrew Title Pages and Pressmarks” by Marvin J. Heller

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Mark R. Godburn, Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets
William J. Kiesel, Printers Devices in Esoteric Publishing.

Printing History Typography Journals

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Some Reflections on Reading and Writing, Culture and Nature, & Sorting Things Out

Some Reflections on Reading and Writing, Culture and Nature, & Sorting Things Out

By Robert Bringhurst

Robert Bringhurst was the 2016 recipient of the RIT Frederic W. Goudy Award for Typographic Excellence. While on campus he delivered the Goudy Esteemed Lecture entitled “Putting Big Truth in Little Boxes: The Perils of Taxonomy.” This addressed the notion of what typographers could learn about typographic classification nomenclature from art historians, biologists, and other specialists. We present here a limited-edition pamphlet of Bringhurst’s selected writings on same topic, that was produced at the Cary Collection while Mr.

Typography Books

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Manuale Calligraphicum

Of all his contributions to the graphic arts, Hermann Zapf’s (1918–2015) dedication to sharing his knowledge may be regarded as one of his most enduring achievements. And no institution benefited more from his generosity than Rochester Institute of Technology where, in 1979, he began to teach a series of summer classes in Advanced Calligraphy. The classes attracted an international group of accomplished graphic artists whose hours spent with Zapf became treasured memories.

Calligraphy Typography Books

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The Aries Press of Eden, N.Y.

By Richard Kegler

Printing History Typography Books Sale

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Printing History New Series 19

Edited By William T. La Moy

New Series Number 19 (January 2016)
William T. La Moy, “An Autographed Letter (Signed) from Frederic W. Goudy to [Alpheus] Sherwin Cody Dated 18 August 1935”
William T. La Moy, “Frederic W. Goudy’s Formal Tribute to Bertha M. Goudy”
Elizabeth Savage, “The Mystery of the “Scrappy Fragments”: Untangling Robert Steele’s Discovery of Frisket Sheets”

Reviews
John Bidwell, American Paper Mills, 1690-1832: A Directory of the Paper Trade with Notes on Products, Watermarks, Distribution Methods, and Manufacturing Techniques [Reviewed by Sydney Berger]

Printing History Typography Journals

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Printing History New Series 18

Edited By William T. La Moy

New Series Number 18 (July 2015)
Craig Eliason, “A History of the “Humanist” Type Classification”
Timothy P.J. Perry, “Early Depictions of the Printing Press”

Reviews
Kay Amert, The Scythe and the Rabbit: Simon de Colines and the Culture of the Book in Renaissance Paris [Reviewed by Paul Gehl]

Printing History Typography Journals

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Printing History New Series 17

Edited By William T. La Moy

New Series Number 17 (January 2015)
Danierl W. Bly, “Who Was Paul Messerschmidt?”
Marvin J. Heller, “The Eagle Motif in Sixteenth- and Seventeeth-Century Hebrew Books; A Short Essay”
“A Letter by Christopher Morely on Publishing Matters,” Transcribed and Annotated William T. La Moy

Reviews
Sue Rainey, Creating A World on Paper: Harry Fenn’s Career in Art. [Reviewed by Jeffrey Mifflin]

Printing History Typography Journals

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$20.00

Highlights of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology

Highlights of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology

By Steven K. Galbraith, Amelia Hugill-Fontanel, Kari Horowicz

Since its founding in 1969, the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology has grown from the personal library of its namesake Melbert B. Cary Jr., to one of the nation’s premier libraries on graphic communication history. Highlights of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection brings this history to life with a selection of items that not only exemplify the scope and mission of the library, but are treasures in their own right.

Bookbinding Calligraphy Design Print Media Printing History RIT Typography Books

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