Why Take This Course?
In a world where it seems like everything’s digital, it’s refreshing to step away from the keyboard and create with your hands. That’s exactly what your team will do when we visit SVC’s offshoot nonprofit, Partners in Print, for a session of poster printing, collaboration, and fun. Working with vintage wood type, linoleum print blocks, and Vandercook presses — the star technology of another era — each member of the team will design and print a limited run of letterpress posters. At the same time your people are turning out beautiful, hand-crafted posters, they’ll also be creating some new connections to their teammates through collaborating on their designs. So, while every SVC workshop builds skills, this one also builds teamwork.


Who Should Take This Class?
This workshop is for anyone and everyone. No prior letterpress or design experience is needed.


Course Outcomes

• Learn about the centuries-old technology of letterpress printing where ideas are expressed with type, engravings, ink, paper, and pressure

• Experience the joy of developing designs quickly in a very low-pressure environment

• Get away from the computer and share some analog fun with teammates

Course Description

Participants will learn the basics of letterpress printing while creating their own one-of-a-kind poster designs on Partners in Print’s vintage flat-bed printing presses. Here’s what will take place during the workshop:

• Brainstorming your design

• Setting headline type by hand from hardwood or lead display type

• Choosing your ink color options

• Learn how to operate a Vandercook letterpress

• Sharing and showing-off your letterpress poster
  
  

Prerequisites and Requirements
None. No prior design or letterpress printing experience is required.