#Student Work

[spacecadetin]

Sobek - Kane Chronicles

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

PRINTING WITH WOOD TYPE!

Every semester, when we finally get to the invention of letterpress printing in Europe in my History of Books & Printing course, we all head over to a local print shop to set type and print a collaborative broadside. Last week we did just that and went over to Adam Beadel's Team Nerd Letterpress in the Walker's Point neighborhood of Milwaukee.

Usually, we compose in metal type, as that is what the students just learned about, but Adam recently received a huge influx of foundry type that wasn't set up yet, so we had to use wood type instead. Even though we wouldn't learn about the invention of production wood type for a few weeks, we were game because wood type is the best!

Each student was assigned to come up with a 3-5-word phrase based on the theme of "Transitions." They set their own phrase in wood type, I arranged the phrases into an exquisite corpse poem, we locked up the type on the bed of a poster press, and pulled a proof in blue ink (second to last image). Everyone was satisfied with the results, and with only a couple of adjustments, the students went on a tear, inking up the type in a rainbow of colors (last image), and pulling 15 more prints. Everyone went home exhausted and happy.

There are few things more thrilling than making your own letterpress prints. Thanks Adam!!!

View another letterpress post from a previous book history session.

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-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

[victorianvampyr]

Fan-made Mystery Flesh Pit Brochure I made for my typography class!

[umdbooklab]

made by a student, Fall 2023

[engelart]

"Still Life with an Iron",  1982 by Norman Engel

[corvushocfecit]

Un cavallo è una macchina

Done for SCAD DSGN 100

[jwt5000]

djo poster in honor of new djo post

[emthehuman01]

Another one of my school assignments for a camera pan with a walk cycle! They’re in love and and on a date :]

[nilotheberryboy]

I know this could be weird, but I'm finishing my final project, basically the biggest work I had to do in my student life, and I need help with the survey It would mean a lot if some of you do this because I need answers from people outside of Spain, and even if you don't want to do it, sharing it would also help me https://forms.gle/32joCfYYCMgBN9CFA

Thanks in advance people, and I swear I will post something soon lol

[gregdotorg]

firefox wiped all my open tabs when it restarted, including a bunch of stuff I was going to post about. so I'm trying to rebuild the queue a bit. I definitely remembered these, though:

A signed exhibition poster of a swagged out c. 1975 Cy Twombly in Naples, which used to belong to Twombly's friend, artist Donald Baechler.

And a group of unexpected and surreal student-era pictures by Richard Prince, which he'd given to a former classmate. First up is this self-portrait with a toilet valve coming out of his 1970s head.

Both are selling at Stair Galleries on 5 June 2024, so get your paddles ready.

[spacecadetin]

travel poster + brochure for class — chose the world of the ocean king from The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Full disclosure I traced the silhouettes of objects from the game for most of this and then painted over them.

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

MORE PRINTING WITH WOOD TYPE

One of my students sent me more images today from our letterpress venture at Team Nerd Letterpress for my History of Books & Printing course a couple of weeks ago. You can read more about the excursion in a post we did last week.

Shown here again are the type cases we worked from; setting and locking up the lines of type on the press bed; inking the type in blue and pulling a proof; then inking the type with a crazy kaleidoscope of colors and pulling multiple prints in rainbow colors.

That image of a sideways face after the line "the spaces close in" is a linocut portrait that Team Nerd proprietor Adam Beadel did of me years ago -- when I still had hair.

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– MAX, Head, Special Collections

[caggianopottery]

Let the pumpkin season begin!!!!

Say hello to my students’ pumpkin patch from this afternoon ✨🎃

[redmountain16]

Local college art student posts his work

It's been 8 weeks since I moved in, have some art I made for assignments

[minervadeutonomy]

In honor of Unity fucking developers over

Here is my game dev work Ive been learning for the last few months.

A big big thank you to all my mutuals and non developers people who've been part of the outcry against Unity's blatantly anti user policies. It does mean a lot to see others have game devs backs.

[engelart]

“Rich OIl”, 1984 by Norman Engel