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So what is the type truck?...you ask!....a portable letterpress studio on wheels...Kyle Durrie the owner of "power and light press" in portland oregon decided to take her passion of letterpress printing and road trips and share it with the world.
she purchased a 1982 chevy step van and converted it into a rolling letterpress studio...what is letterpress, you ask?...according to wikipedia:
Letterpress printing is relief printing of text and image using a press with a "type-high bed" printing press and movable type, in which a reversed, raised surface is inked and then pressed into a sheet of paper to obtain a positive right-reading image.
It was the normal form of printing text from its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century until the 19th century and remained in wide use for books and other uses until the second half of the 20th century. In addition to the direct impression of inked movable type onto paper or another receptive surface, letterpress is also the direct impression of inked printmaking blocks such as photo-etched zinc "cuts" (plates), linoleum blocks, wood engravings, etc., using such a press.
ok, so now we have that out of the way.....kyle has a mid 20th century sign press and an 1873 golding official #3 tabletop platen press....she has logged over 11,000 miles in the "sweetheart of the road" her step van and many more miles to go.
kyle's "tour" includes letterpress shops throughout the USA and Canada and craft venues....recently she was at "Craftland" in Providence RI and visited with my daughter kristin there.....
reading her blog, reminds me of the trip john steinbeck took around the country with charley, his poodle....hence his book, "travels with charley" a must read for anyone with the wanderlust DNA......
how kool is it to take to the road, meet new and interesting people and share your passion with them...i know a lot of you have thought about doing that at one point in your life...i know i did.....anyway
her website is Moveable Type | Cross-country Adventures in Printing
check it out and go visit her when she stops by you!!!!....i am going to meet her next week when she is in NJ....so i decided to create a puzzle for her as a momento of her trip and visiting NJ.....
and no comments about new jersey!!!....remember it's the home of the sopranos and we will find you!!!...LOL......
i took her logo from her website and surrounded it with different font letters with a solid background, closely matching the colors in her logo....this was accomplished in "adobe - in design" which is a desktop publishing program.
i also included a lot of figurals, sorta like a "remembrance" of some of the places she has visited....new york city - the big apple.....the rocky mountains....the silver fox....yada, yada, yada!!!
the puzzles is 8 x 10 and i have not counted the pieces yet.....so here is the image before cutting it up!!!!.....as always criticism and critique welcome....
bob
she purchased a 1982 chevy step van and converted it into a rolling letterpress studio...what is letterpress, you ask?...according to wikipedia:
Letterpress printing is relief printing of text and image using a press with a "type-high bed" printing press and movable type, in which a reversed, raised surface is inked and then pressed into a sheet of paper to obtain a positive right-reading image.
It was the normal form of printing text from its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century until the 19th century and remained in wide use for books and other uses until the second half of the 20th century. In addition to the direct impression of inked movable type onto paper or another receptive surface, letterpress is also the direct impression of inked printmaking blocks such as photo-etched zinc "cuts" (plates), linoleum blocks, wood engravings, etc., using such a press.
ok, so now we have that out of the way.....kyle has a mid 20th century sign press and an 1873 golding official #3 tabletop platen press....she has logged over 11,000 miles in the "sweetheart of the road" her step van and many more miles to go.
kyle's "tour" includes letterpress shops throughout the USA and Canada and craft venues....recently she was at "Craftland" in Providence RI and visited with my daughter kristin there.....
reading her blog, reminds me of the trip john steinbeck took around the country with charley, his poodle....hence his book, "travels with charley" a must read for anyone with the wanderlust DNA......
how kool is it to take to the road, meet new and interesting people and share your passion with them...i know a lot of you have thought about doing that at one point in your life...i know i did.....anyway
her website is Moveable Type | Cross-country Adventures in Printing
check it out and go visit her when she stops by you!!!!....i am going to meet her next week when she is in NJ....so i decided to create a puzzle for her as a momento of her trip and visiting NJ.....
and no comments about new jersey!!!....remember it's the home of the sopranos and we will find you!!!...LOL......
i took her logo from her website and surrounded it with different font letters with a solid background, closely matching the colors in her logo....this was accomplished in "adobe - in design" which is a desktop publishing program.
i also included a lot of figurals, sorta like a "remembrance" of some of the places she has visited....new york city - the big apple.....the rocky mountains....the silver fox....yada, yada, yada!!!
the puzzles is 8 x 10 and i have not counted the pieces yet.....so here is the image before cutting it up!!!!.....as always criticism and critique welcome....
bob
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