Yoh Letterpress & Design

05/24/2023

01/20/2022

What a good read putting type history in present-day context. Mind blown. https://believermag.com/logger/written-in-jim-crow/?fbclid=IwAR3x5KZGy6dercYM5LG4siosByWbzyP3wzHVLv1UoVwSpJu9g304zovYzYA

J for Jim Crow Share Share via Facebook Share via Twitter Copy link to clipboard Share via text message December 15th, 2021 by Sarah K. Kramer Illustrations by Lille Allen December 15th, 2021 Three years ago, while on summer vacation, I was browsing the children’s book offerings in a used bookstor...

07/19/2021

"A Poetics of the Press" illustrates how invaluable firsthand accounts are to historicize a moment and medium.

05/19/2021

https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/

Old Book Illustrations offers a wide range of public domain, royalty-free images scanned from old books. Searchable galleries include animals, plants, techniques, artists names, books titles, and much more...

03/01/2021

So here is a before photo of this diamond in the rough I picked up over the weekend. An almost literal ton of 50 year old Century Nova type in this cabinet which may make it the defacto Yoh Letterpress House Typeface!

02/15/2021

Planning on a road trip to Ohio with a to-do list including finding new homes for printing-related furniture somewhere in between there and here.

01/27/2021

Having visited Greg Walters shop last year, I loved being able to watch him casting type in the short film sandwiched between a really interesting talk between Richard Kegler and Amelia Fontanel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ldj5LMv8Y&fbclid=IwAR0BL5NHaQc9sLjolO9vUFuhclUiarrVt7fr1ZYZkJlKmowFJtH5SU_lO00

Richard Kegler (P22 Type Foundry) & Amelia Fontanel (RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection), The Seven Lives of a Typeface. Amelia Fontanel and Richard Kegler pre...

12/22/2020

Happy Holidays from P22 Type Foundry. We appreciate you. As a token of our appreciation we hope you will accept this humble gift: a free rental of our Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century film. This film offers a glimpse into the creative metal type making process—and joie de vivre—from the late Jim Rimmer. No obligation nor purchase necessary—just use code: MakingFree at the P22 Vimeo On Demand page. This our new “polyglot” version which features subtitles in 11 languages. Or if you prefer to purchase use the code P22polyglot to get 50% off. Offer expires 12/31/2020.

12/09/2020

https://lithub.com/so-gutenberg-didnt-actually-invent-the-printing-press/?fbclid=IwAR1lNtLBO_GJ320TUMeYiLNw9sSc4_5SvzL2o3zrpYzVBHWB7U-4RoAZ4j4

If you heard one book called “universally acknowledged as the most important of all printed books,” which do you expect it would be? If you were Margaret Leslie Davis, the answer would be obvious. …

11/03/2020

Feeling patriotic today!

09/16/2020

https://www.quarantinepubliclibrary.com/

Browse our collection to find a one-sheet artist’s book you loveTurn your printout into a book by following our simple tutorialEnjoy your new book—and print more to create your own library  Free one-page artist’s books to print and collect at home  2020.37Shelf Life: Foraging for Blue Raspbe...