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Staff Pick of the Week

We received a number of wonderful end-of-the-year cards from artists, printers, book artists, designers, letterpress printers, and fine press publishers. The letterpress-printed card we received from Trish and Wilber “Chip” Schilling of Indulgence Press in Minneapolis really captures the overall sentiment of many of the cards sent to us in such a simple, engaging, and effective way. So much so, that we plan to catalog this card for our collection as a printed artifact of the times. The type is a slab-style typeface that we haven’t been able to identify,* but suits the content very well.

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* After posting this, thanks to the sleuthing of printmaker and book artist Melissa Wagner-Lawler, we have since learned that the typeface is Cholla Slab OT designed by Swiss-American designer Sibylle Hagmann for Emigre digital type foundry.

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Typography Tuesday

We just love these two very different typographic broadsides by Minneapolis letterpress printer and book artist Wilber “Chip” Schilling. Unfortunately, in both cases the typographic designs used are not identified.

The first, Inside (click on the image for a better appreciation of the craftsmanship), is a collaboration on handmade abaca paper with Amanda Degener and Bridget O’Malley of Cave Paper in Minneapolis. The broadside was designed and printed by Schilling as a keepsake commemorating the 25th anniversary of the journal Hand Papermaking in 2011. The text, printed in silver and written by Degener, is difficult to see in this presentation, but reads “something from the inside has come to meet what is made.”

The second, Apokalupsis 12:21:2012, is a tongue-in-cheek indulgence absolving the bearer “of all prior aural sins” and allowing “the privilege of musical revelation” for the future. The broadside was “prepared for the End of Times broadside exchange held in St. Joseph, Minnesota prior to Armageddon” in 2012. It was designed and letterpress printed from a vinyl record and typographic plates by Schilling with assistance from his wife Trish in an edition of 50 copies at his Indulgence Press in Minneapolis.

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