The day has finally arrived. After being locked up in a storage container for 2 years, the casting machines are out and happily soaking up the day light in their new home. Jeff and I stood in disbelief as pallets were positioned on the diamond plate steel covered floor. It’s been a busy couple years [...]
Aug
20
2010
20
2010
Aug
4
2010
4
2010
New Ludlow Slugs!
Board member Jeff Shay cast these slugs today for our stationery! It’s shiny AND jangly.
Jul
22
2010
22
2010
Reflections on This Year’s ATF Conference
It’s been a few weeks since I got back from the American Typecasting Fellowship Conference in Piqua, OH, hosted by the wonderful Gregory Walters, and I’m excited as ever about our community and our project.
We’re working to establish the C.C. Stern Type Foundry in Portland to create a real working “museum”, and this conference was [...]
Apr
29
2010
29
2010
Harold Berliner’s Passing
Harold Berliner died Monday. He was 86.
I met Harold when I was working in San Francisco, working every day on Monotypes. He had invited me up to his house in Nevada County, California, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada range–I drove up Interstate 80 on that crisp day not knowing exactly why the old [...]
Jan
31
2010
31
2010
Jim Rimmer’s Tom Sawyer available for purchase
I wanted to follow up on my earlier post about Jim Rimmer’s inspiration to the Type Foundry. To create The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Jim Rimmer designed and made a new metal font using type foundry equipment, such as the Monotype Composition Caster, that we are working to preserve—and preserving to work for other artists. [...]
Jan
24
2010
24
2010
Inspiration in a homemade, hand cast font
I was thinking about how the C.C. Stern Type Foundry can play a role in advancing the art of the printed word, and found a bit of inspiration from our friend Jim Rimmer and his limited edition The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Here’s an excerpt from an article in Parenthesis, The Journal of the Fine Press [...]