The Norlu Press

12/16/2025

Oathborn Bookmark Swag

Ann C. Orlandi’s newest book Oathborn explores the idea that “The fae have magic and humans have machines.” Since my dad established The Norlu Press in 1937, letterpress printing has been a magical…

12/15/2025

The final print of my 2025 Christmas greeting card in four colors for The Norlu Press.

11/12/2025

The gold form for this year’s holiday greeting card. This was the last of four colors I printed.

11/09/2025

Creating the black form for the shop’s holiday card.

11/05/2025

Building the red form of this year’s holiday card by replacing the green border types with red and removing all of the text that doesn’t print red. I used a piece of one of the composite proofs to check alignment (top pic).

11/04/2025

Work on my shop’s annual holiday greeting card continues. The composite proof with all types in a single form is top left. Below it is an in-progress pic of how I unlocked the form to keep position and isolate the holly leaves for the green form. On the top right is the printed green form, which is the first of four colors I will be printing for this card.

10/16/2025

Looking forward to separating this one into black, gold, red and green forms!

05/21/2025

The story of my submission to the Update New York APHA "15 Prints on the Erie Canal" project....

The story of my submission to the Update New York APHA “15 Prints on the Erie Canal” project.

05/06/2025

A post describing the creative process and technical aspects of The Norlu Press submission for the 2025 Panama City Publishing Company Letterpress by the Bay exhibition....

A post describing the creative process and technical aspects of The Norlu Press submission for the 2025 Panama City Publishing Company Letterpress by the Bay exhibition.

04/16/2025

The concept for this year’s exhibit is coming along.

04/10/2025

Other than the use of Gillies Gothic and Caslon Adbold Extra Condensed (Keystone, 1915-17), any guesses about what I have going on here? Free copy of the final print for the best answer before April 15.