letterpress – Beth Dudek Design | Rochester, NY Digital Designer ../../../index.html Wed, 15 Apr 2015 04:22:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 ../../../wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-header-main-2-32x32.png letterpress – Beth Dudek Design | Rochester, NY Digital Designer ../../../index.html 32 32 .918 Get Type High ../../../design/918-get-type-high/ ../../../design/918-get-type-high/#respond Wed, 15 Apr 2015 04:09:16 +0000 http://www.bethdudek.com/?p=728 My time as an intern happened randomly as I visited Type High Letterpress Print Shop after the market, and spontaneously offered to help, intern, and become further educated in the amazing world of letterpress. Tony, the owner, is so skilled, and owns the greatest print shop ever. He has quite the collection that takes up most of the space…and it’s growing. I learned many invaluable tips, tricks, and lessons there, and now I’ve earned my keep to go back and design my own projects, getting an idea out of my head, formed by type and ornaments, and printed on paper with lovely 50 year old ink.

Type High confirmed my growing love (…obsession…) with letterpress.

“Be the designer.” & “There is no spellcheck in letterpress.”

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]]> ../../../design/918-get-type-high/feed/ 0 The WNYBAC Intern ../../../design/the-wnybac-intern/ ../../../design/the-wnybac-intern/#respond Tue, 14 Apr 2015 04:16:08 +0000 http://www.bethdudek.com/?p=698 IMG_4603 IMG_4604 IMG_4369 IMG_4372 IMG_4403 IMG_4418IMG_4481 IMG_4495 IMG_4522 IMG_4524 IMG_4770 IMG_4780I was an intern at the Western New York Book Arts Center through Canisius my final semester, while Rich Kegler and Chris Fritton (now the wanderlust-striken Itinerant Printer) were still in association there. The travel there included construction tearing up Main Street, graffiti, lackadaisical  passersby’s, littered sidewalks, and grungy subway. But I loved every day there, and gained a fortune of knowledge from a budding love for letterpress, to bookbinding techniques, using vintage tools like a corner rounder, to learning general studio upkeep and the mechanics, orders, paperwork, and communication that keeps a business alive and relevant. Oh, and we also jammed to The Decemberists every day.

Instead of reminiscing for a while, I’ll just post some pretty pictures from my experiences.

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