Letterpress printing today continues to excite with the most readable, elegant text available as 3-dimensional letters or a relief plate is pressed into a lush, high quality cotton paper. With the commonality of computers we must not forget the origins of letters originally drawn by a scribe, cut and cast one at a time, hand set, and locked up to go to press. Unique, elegant letterpress adds a dimension of awe and chic to announcements, business brands, and specialized gifts.
At Intima Press Letterpress Designs we honor the labor and elegance of over 500 years of history, and print each design with the greatest care and attention to detail. All the letterpress work at the Press is meticulously printed one at a time to create beautiful impressions. Our designs are a union of art historical traditions and modern sensibilities. With a selection of wood and metal foundry type, we keep the tradition of hand setting alive, though much of our printing is done from digital design files and translated onto a plate. Our vintage press renders beautiful impressions of type and images.
Fine binding is also a high craft and labor intensive process which can be customized for your special event, book of poems, or artist’s book project. The structure should mesh with the concept of the piece: accordion, pamphlet, multiple signatures; hard cover with silk book cloth or soft handmade rag paper wrappings. We provide the finest hand work with lovely high quality archival materials. Inquire about consults for your specific project.
Private Tutorials
Tutorials in letterpress printing, bookbinding, and the art of the book include:
. One-on-one instruction in hand-set type
. Working from digital files to translate into a plate and prepare to go to press
. Book Consults
. Working with artists to create their small editioned books
. Tutorials for your own group
Call or email to arrange your customized session.
Workshops
With a Master of Arts from New York University, Mindy Belloff’ has taught visual arts classes in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and graduate studies in the history of the book at Long Island University’s Palmer School of Library Science. She has taught poets and writers as an Adjunct Professor at the New School Writing Program, letterpress and book arts at the School of Visual Arts, and workshops in the art of the book as a Visiting Artist at the Center for Book Arts, the Women’s Studio Workshop, the New York Public Library, the American Museum of Folk Art, Pyramid Atlantic, and Florida Atlantic University. She has taught painting and drawing through extension programs at Cornell University, Hofstra University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. She is available to lecture on contemporary books arts and book and printmaking workshops as a visiting artist (contact IntimaPress at yahoo.com).
To date, classes have been suspended as art projects take priority, though individual instruction and group tutorials, as well as Book Consults, may be scheduled as time allows.
The teaching archives of the Studio, with approximately a thousand pieces of ephemera and books from over a decade of sharing the traditions of printing and the book with many hundreds of students, are held at Columbia University’s Butler Library, in New York City.
