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Design firms and ad agencies? Not so much. Jim was talking about how letterpress people are good people, which I find to be completely true, and said "nobody that works here is a jerk." Kinda hilarious. Within about 5 minutes of being there I met the legendary Jim Sherraden and I have to admit I was totally star struck. Insanely awesome.Įxcuse my crass description, it's a little hard to describe! It's like sensory overload and can be a bit numbing after a while. As my mom would say, there's enough woodtype "to sink a battleship." There are piles and piles and PILES of posters laying around, and the walls are lined with them. Floor to ceiling shelves of woodtype in all shapes & sizes, wood cuts and all sorts of crazy things. To sum it up simply, Hatch Show Print is a Magical Letterpress Land. And when you're done, each letter is placed back into it's appropriate case, letter by letter. Ain't it purdy? Notice alllll the different pieces of type and riglettes. The composing stick keeps the width of the line consistent.Ĭlose up of the set type. Each line must fit in here very tightly because when you go to lay your type in the bed of the letterpress your woodtpye and metal type can pop out and cause damage if not properly secured. I start out line by line, letter by letterĬlose-up of a composing stick. But either way, I'm loving every minute of it! So it goes both ways I guess! Maybe you need to ask a real letterpress printer, I'm really just living in a temporary Letterpress fairytale land. Calming and fun until you realize there are no more lower case t's, and then you want to cry. This process may sound boring and tedious but it is actually very fulfilling, almost calming in a way. We use little wooden sticks called "riglettes" to space out words and lines and to keep the overall composition very tight. Let me begin by reminding you that EVERY letter you see is picked out of the drawers (we call them cases), one by one and placed into a composing stick (see the 4th photo down for reference). Below you will find pictures detailing how I tackled this. This is a poster that had already been designed and printed for his last tour and I was given the assignment of re-typsetting this poster with new tour dates & cities. Thursday (1/14) I re-typeset a Willie Nelson poster.

Įlvis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis all may have sang out of this microphone. So instead we decided to spend our time by going to Sun Recording Studio, and I'm glad we did. was shot.) we pulled up, and there were about 300 people waiting outside to get in. After we toured Graceland we drove over there (the museum is actually the Lorraine Motel, aka where Dr. Sadly, we were unable to go the Civil Rights Museum as we'd hope to. We toured Graceland and Sun Recording Studio (which was totally awesome, the later of the two, that is) and we had some killer fried catfish (cornmeal breaded of course). (Come to think of it, I'm always in search of kitsch. Day, so Laura and I took a roadtrip to Memphis in search of kitsch, Americana, history and as usual, good eats. Hatch was closed for Martin Luther King Jr.