After much prodding from Nick to take photos of my entire collection of wood type, I finally lugged everything up to my den and laid it out. It ended up being a fun and rewarding experience. Most of the time I only deal with one portion of my collection at a time, so to see them intermingling was fun and enlightening. The mass of contrasting styles and sizes was another ...

This is a petite little 8 from a mixed lot I purchased 2 years ago. The wood has a great, rich color, and I love it when splotches of ink are still on the face of a letter when the rest is spotless. The grain is pretty distinctive on this block, I like how it ripples across the block. The counters are quite irregular, the bottom one seems much more ...

SlowPrint Press is a letterpress studio that has printing facilities in Dubuque, Iowa, and design studios in Galena, Illinois. The founder, Peter Fraterdeus, has a great portfolio of thoughtful and finely printed designs. No details in the production process are skimmed over in their work. They have an excellent portfolio of business cards, stationery, and more. Their flickr page shows off some more of Mr. Fraterdeus’s work. Check out their website, ...

Mr. Bob Pointkowski emailed me yesterday and pointed me to the lovely work of Mrs. Jennifer Farrell’s Starshaped Press, located in Chicago. When I was first looking through the site, I assumed some of the work was photopolymer plates, because of the large vareity in typefaces. However, I was pleasantly surprised to read the process page, where they reveal that all of the type is either wood or metal. Incredible! ...