#Workshop Press

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Fleurons or Printers' Flowers have been a prominent element of typographic tradition at least since the early 16th century, especially those of designer-punchcutter Robert Granjon. They became less used over the 17th century, but were revived in the mid-18th century when Pierre Simon Fournier introduced an entirely new style of printers' flowers. Soon after, their use enhanced as a fashion for classical typography changed the concept of type decoration at the end of the 18th century. The revival of fine typographic design in the late 19th century spurred a proliferation of new fleuron designs in the 20th century that has not abated to this day.

Fleurons may be combined in innumerable ways to create ornate and intricate typographic patterns. Today we show a few of those patterns from Fleurons, Their Place in History & in Print, written, designed, printed, and bound in 1988 by English type and printing enthusiast Mark Arman at his Workshop Press in Thaxted, Essex, in an edition of 170 copies signed by the author/printer. This book is another from the recent of from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick. Of printing fleurons, Arman writes:

. . . they can be grouped in a variety of combinations: elaborate arrangements are possible, and great enjoyment may be had exploring their possibilities. When I realised all this I began a collection of type decorations which, in the past seven years, has grown considerably. Part of the enjoyment has been finding specific designs. . . . All my 19th century decorations have come from old printing houses which have ceased to operate, or have gone over to litho, so they make a very mixed assortment. . . . [These] are illustrated in the following pages and the text gives a brief account of the craftsmen who created the design.

View other posts on decorative type patterns by Mark Arman.

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[darknanigans]

more helmetless gabe as i jump back into my folk music obsession

despite asking discord i couldn't decide on whether to give him dasani water bottle eyes (ebove) or dead fish (below) eyes so have both

[off-brand-adorabbit]

Working on a little something and thought I would do well not to forget the girlies

[aurosoulart]

the CEO of NIANTIC liked my art on twitter?!?!?!?! 🫠 I am passing away 👻

[sorrellegiance]

our prof told us to focus on craft when workshopping our stories with each other and trust the writer to manage the grammar, but this girl in my group (who is ostensibly an english major) keeps putting commas in inappropriate places and leaving out commas everywhere else that it would be appropriate to have a comma

[knickknackgalore]

Oscar's Grouchy Sounds

[tittyinfinity]

Tech help pages are so fucking annoying because you'll see someone post something like

"I've been playing this game for 10 years and suddenly this thing isn't working. I've gone through my system files, went back to college, graduated in IT, and held the owner of the gaming software company hostage but I still can't figure it out"

The replies:

"Have you tried using the thing that isn't working?"

"Try doing it on a different console."

"Download this program and it will fix everything!" *sketchy link*

[theworkshopmann]

Power Press

'Heavy will lift tiny coward weight!..Da!'

Type: Taunt

Class: Heavy

Accepted in game: No

This taunt was made by Steam users ToxicWeasel and Saint Lombax Akatsuki Na'vi. Posted on June 27th 2016, you can vote for this here!

[vinegar-rights]

Maybe ill get better at drawing bgs. Bc i really wanna draw seymours room/the basement.

[cursedthing]

.the strength not to add patch notes under our writing whenever we change something. it is dwindling and now that we think about it it's actually really charming. might start doing that :D

[lookedlikethebins]

3 and nineteeeeen 🩷

hi hi hi!! my apologies for not answering this yesterday but, hopefully, i come bearing gifts (answers)!! thank you for sending these in!! xo

3. How would you describe your writing style? verbose and granular? ever since i have been putting word down on paper, it has been my god-given curse to say things with the most words possible. and as i've gotten older and written more, and especially when i was getting my degree, i've noticed (and it has been told to me by many advisors lol) that i focus on the very, very granular, small details of a scene-- almost too much. i'm not sure why? it's sort of like, everyone can understand the Big Themes of a character like grief or love or anger (or, if not one-for-one, it's a general Concept readers are familiar with and can move through the story having a Shape of Understanding). but do you know what i mean when i say this character's hands get almost-rug burned when hanging up water-logged denim on a clothes line because they're really exhausted (but can't tell anyone) and their hand grip is trembling in short pulses opposite their heartbeat so it feels like a foreign force in their body causing the difficulty? that's where it's at for me. i love that.

19. Share a snippet from a wip without giving any context for it. ...maybe if i post this early enough in the morning god won't see it... my apologies; never posted anything like this before... [and dropping you right in the middle of it too]

“Fuck…. Fuck… Matty.” George had to speak in the undertone of his whines—like his words had to catch a ride. He wasn’t sure how to speak any other way. Everything felt overwhelming. “So—So…”

“Yeah… Yeah… I know.” Matty muttered, his eyes clenched tightly shut. He didn’t stop easing his hips forward.

“Matty,” The word felt flat—blunt—in George’s mouth. His entire body tightening and seizing while Matty’s name, uncontrollable and probably the only word he could think of in the moment, pushed against his throat begging to be moaned, whined, cried, pushed through clenched teeth—“Fuck, Matty. Matty…”

“You okay?” Matty was out of breath, panting as he was finally flush against George’s body. “Does this feel okay?”

“I think I’m going to black out.” George said somewhat jokingly. The joke really was that every time George closed his eyes, he was sure he had. His mind had never been so blank before. “Oh—Oh fuck.”

Even with Matty unmoving and against him, George’s entire body was beginning to seize up like he wanted to come apart immediately. The heat of Matty’s body draped over him and nearly pinning him down; Matty hovering over George’s and letting George see him screw his eyes shut and mutter to himself as he bottomed out; the obscene stretch Matty demanded of George’s whole body—the way George felt like every time he tried to focus on relaxing, on giving into the pressure and on taking more of Matty in, he swore there was more and more to take. George was begging to have some internal—maybe mental—seam pop and all of him come clattering out; spill everywhere and not care about finding all the pieces.

[threecrowsinacloak]

lino print my darling <3

and lino print on fabric, my nemesis </3

[bumpscosity]

GOZERS SOUND IS GOING OUT IM SO SAD RN

[thegirlwiththelantern]

Death & Dark Magics | 2023 YA Releases

A short roundup of horror and murdery YA. Apologies that this isn’t my usual 20 books but I’m quaking with excitement for most of them. You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron | 20 / 06 / 23 – Bloomsbury Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the “final girl” at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer…

[claashpumpkins]

Fantastic seeing everyone's pictures from this year's GlasGLOW and a big thanks for letting us share your great pics with some of our feature pumpkins!