Dikko Faust's Letterpress Classes | School of Visual Arts, NYC

Registration starts December 5

An Introduction to Letterpress
FGC-2459-A | 6:30-9:30PM | Tuesdays, Jan 24 - April 17

Letterpress is versatile and adaptable, and mixes easily with other printmaking processes. Through hand typesetting vintage metal and wood typefaces, students will gain a broader understanding of typography. Printing blocks and plates range from completely manual, hand-cut and collaged, to digital photopolymer plates. Accurate color registration is simple and easy. The image can range from hard edge to feathered and painterly, and the relief impression adds a third dimension. Operation and maintenance of several different letterpresses is included. Each session begins with a demonstration followed by studio time to work on individual projects ranging from type-based graphic designs to fine art limited editions.

The Letterpress Image
FGC-2462-A | 6:30-9:30PM | Tuesdays, Jan 23 - April 16

This course will concentrate on the use of letterpress for image-making. Metal and wood type will be used for words; photo-polymer plates, linoleum and woodcuts, collage prints, collagraphs and even the letter forms themselves will be used as images. Students will learn to create photo-polymer plates from digital files and print using traditional letterpress equipment. The use of multiple-color printing and pinpoint registration as well as several easy book forms will be covered.

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Esther K Smith Book Arts Classes | Cooper Union, NYC

Cooper Union Class Registration begins: January 5th at 10:30am

Sign up by: JANUARY 13TH to waive the $25 registration fee.
Enter the promotional code SPRING12 (ALL CAPS NO SPACES)
when registering online.
Final day to enroll : January 27th

Artist's Books
Mondays, Feb 6-April 23 | 6:30pm - 9:30pm | 10 sessions*
*Class will not meet on Feb 20+April 9

Make five books from start to finish. Explore simple bookbinding from Eastern and Early Western traditions. Make individual and collaborative books, unique books and small editions. Book structures include simple sewn pamphlets, stab stitch, accordions, long-stitch and Coptic bindings. See the work of contemporary book artists. Discuss how you can publish and distribute your own artist books.

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Sample classes:

Cake Box Books—Esther K Smith — Pop Art meets book arts!
A delightful introduction to longstitch binding, which you can also use with leather.
You can bring some old leather pants to recycle. Warning: grocery shopping will never be the same.
And you’ll never throw away another box.

Magic Books and Paper Toys—Esther K Smith
Amaze your friends with an array of tricky bookforms from a myriad of traditions: hexiflexigons, magic
wallets, simple popups, origami-based forms, exquisite corpses, woven pockets, animations,
concertina-based flip/flaps, jewelry books, etc. Learn these easy structures, making quick models, and
then make them into finished pieces using collage materials, stickers, buttons and beads, etc.

Letterpress Printing—Dikko Faust
Learn to set wood and metal type by hand. Set a page, a postcard or a whole book. Print on a variety of hand-and machine-made papers. Courses available for beginners and experienced students.

Experimental Printmaking on the Letterpress—Dikko Faust
Edition images from a variety of traditional and experimental plates: photopolymer, wood and linoleum cut, collagraph, texture plates. Learn to incorporate a variety of materials into your work, such as lace, sandpaper, grass, you name it—if it fits on the letterpress we can print it!

Hands-On History of Typography—Dikko Faust
When is a font not a font? Where is the lead in leading?
Learn typographic history by experience as you hand-set type and print it on the letterpress. Moveable type ended the Dark Ages and ushered in the Renaissance, the industrial revolution, and literacy for the people.

Instant Artist Books—Esther K Smith
Make ten books from start to finish. Explore simple bookbinding from Eastern and Early Western traditions
Make individual and collaborative books, unique books and small editions—even popups! See the work of
contemporary book artists. and discuss how you can publish and distribute your own Artist Books.

Purgatory Pie Press
Dikko Faust & Esther K Smith
19 Hudson St. #403 NYC 10013
212 274 8228