In the heart of San Francisco’s artistic Mission District is Levi’s Workshop a new kind of hands-on gallery that is celebrating the history of print and design from now through the end of August. I was amazed when I stepped inside how open the space was and how readily available the staff were to show […]
By Andrew Lewis Sometimes I have a great idea for a textile project, but I get put off by the thought of trawling through the seemingly endless bolts of fabric at the store. Then I think about the hassle of haggling over the price and ending up with three times as much fabric as I […]
Angela from the Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn, NY writes in about their summer printmaking workshops in their new 1200 square foot print shop. Learn screenprinting, intaglio, woodblock printing, and more! Head over to check them out and sign up. In it’s simplest form, The Gowanus Studio Space is a workshop for designers, artists and […]
Michael Boehm saw our post a couple of weeks ago about Etsy seller Stukenborg’s letterpress prints using dice as “type,” which mentioned the idea of using the same technique for making pixel-based images as well as geometric patterns. He got interested in the idea, went off to experiment, and eventually produced the dice-mosaic version of Man Ray’s Le Violon d’Ingres shown above. When he posted the results in the comment thread, I asked for, and he was nice enough to provide, a written explanation of the method, which uses Mark Probst’s open-source photomosaic utility Metapixel. I’ve reproduced Michael’s e-mail, with only minor edits, below. [Thanks, Michael!]
I’ve had a long-held fascination with letterpress printing (which I finally got to try when I was in Portland a year ago) and I especially love seeing alternative items used to make impressions on the press. Sean at MAKE points us to these prints from Etsy seller, Stukenborg, are made entirely out of dice laid […]
Mark Fuller sent us this video demoing his 3D-printed, humane mousetrap. Love this simple gravity-powered design. Mark says he made the trap with the help of the rapid prototyping class at Pennsylvania College of Technology (www.pct.edu). The device was printed on the Dimension uPrint, in little a under six hours. Tilt-N-Trap (Mouse Trap) on Thingiverse […]
Meg at Decor It Yourself met up with Dailey Crafton for a lesson in linoleum/rubber block printing. More: How-To: Linoleum Block Printing Printing Archives
