#offset printing

[sneezing-serapis]

otay now two postcards i made as a class assignment w my own drawings based off of observations from a local conservatory….very fun very good…back is riso printed but it’s a design i had for a martinaise postcard i made last year but didn’t get a back 💔 i have 2 actually mail a card to myself as part of the assignment but uhhhh…let me know how to do that 🤔🤔

[lua-come]

Artist book Tell me then, is it my voice that they fear?, 2025, Lua com é.

Offset printing, monotype printing.

[cherrylovecore]

I made Jason Mendal even more dangerous as I drew him holding printing processes technical sheet (jesus how do I translate that to english) (you know pre-press, press, and post-press)

Just me turning trauma into art (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)

I hope my teacher does not own any copyrights to this document because ... I dont want to go to jail.

[uwmspeccoll]

An End of the Year Lesson

On this last day of 2023, we at UWM Special Collections would like to offer one final thought on How Books Work from American book artists Julie Chen and Clifton Meador, who are, as the notable artists-book dealers Vamp & Tramp describe them, "two veteran practitioners near the top of any serious list of contemporary book artists." This small, multilayered book was printed offset at the former Colombia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts in fall 2010, and is signed by the artists.

Please take a moment to read this.

This is how books work.

Thank you.

Now, go off into the New Year. . . .

View posts from New Year's Eves past.

[mysteryrodent]

A zine about birdsong I made last spring in Chapel Hill, NC and printed in Chicago that summer.

[lancerfay]

started a new job as an apprentice printing press operator and its really fun and cool. Also I'm tired and covered in ink its like splatoon out there

[arsacra]

9 matchbox labels printed in 1969 for the Czechoslovak consumer cooperative chain Jednota. They advertise the goods and services that co-op members can recieve like fresh produce (1, and fresh and dried mushrooms 6), wine (8), nutricious foods (3), stores close to residential neighborhoods (2) and new locations (4), and co-op owned hotels and roadside bars for motoroturism(5, 7). The last label boasts 1,800,000 members of the co-op.

The matchboxes were produced by Solo Lipnik (now Morago AS Ltd) to be glued onto wooden matchboxzes, but collecting the designs was highly popular and there were many unions and clubs dedicated to collecting labels. These labels were designed by Jednota to promote the cooperative, but other designs were commissioned by various government and social organizations to promote public health and safety, agriculture, labor, and of course, matches.

In 1969, the Jednota co-op expanded into the tourism sector with TATRATOUR, a travel cooperative. Also in the 60s, Jednota exported honey, forest fruits, mushrooms, and snails to western Europe in order to have an account of foreign currency to import certain goods and industrial parts. However, many goods sold in Jednoka stores were domestic - local honey and fruits from the rural areas, and bread and pastries produced in Jednoka facilities (but production flucuated thanks to government interventions). By the 80s the co-op also expanded to include household goods, health and beauty items, and other non-grocery items as smaller specialty stores were overtaken by larger stores that sold a larger variety of items. (COOP Jednota still exists today in SL. source translated from Slovak. Translation notes welcome!)

[ryanseslow]

Character flow with adobe fresco -> photoshop on mobile - having fun 🤩