A Dose of Timely Inspiration

One of my favorite people in Philadelphia, Julie Ahn, checked out an antiques liquidation bonanza in Fleetwood, PA last weekend, and brought me The Greatest Gift Ever...



(excuse my low quality camera phone photos)

The Deal: I have to use this for myself and not for work purposes.

The Times: They Are A-Changin'

In 2009...

...I will learn from the life of this extraordinary man...

The Only Way To Say It.

Internet, Meet Letterpress

So the new ARTINTHEAGE.com was a long time coming...and it will be a great deal more enticing (visually) and user-friendly in the coming days. The whole separation of life and work thing had been working fairly well until this "fabulous" explosion of reinvigorating Art In The Age with serious nods to good old fashioned craftsmanship.

Anyway, to make a long story short, the new design for artintheage.com is full of little letterpressed secrets. Which will now not be secrets because I will point them out.

- Texture and diagram graphics in the header taken from a printing block procured/rescued by one C. Owens and sent via USPS, the greatest system in existence.

- Icons (hollow/filled arrows and hollow/filled boxes) taken from the motley (read: LOVE-ly) dingbats collection at The Common Press (see image here)

- Background texture for navigation buttons and footer categories taken from a series of embossed proofs of last year's V-Day prints.

The Tapeworm Foundry: andor the dangerous prevalence of imagination by Darren Wershler-Henry

The Book...



A Write-Up via The Kelly Writers House...



- Open your ears/speakers to this podcast

- Download the full-text here a la .pdf

-My contribution: "andor make a huge paper boat from all your correspondence and then climb aboard to sail away andor"

This resulted in a fleet of origami boats folded from letterpress prints using only varnish on hoshu paper, reading "ALL MY CORRESPONDENCE". I then created and bound a vacation album with photographs of the boats. The characters in the boats in the photos are myself and those with whom I correspond on paper.






See more on Flickr!

116 North 3rd Street

from a the inaugural group exhibition at the new Art In The Age Store...

every last one.

Tapeworm Preview...

Varnish only...

Philadelphia Open Studio Tours: The Common Press!

This Saturday, October 4 from noon until 6 pm, The Common Press opens its doors to the public! As part of POST (Philadelphia Open Studio Tours).

The Common Press is located in the basement of The Morgan Building at 34th and Locust. Please stop by to pull a print on the letterpress and check out work by past/present students and visiting artists!

I will also have a variety of greeting cards I have made during the past few months to show/tell/sell!

please stay tuned for more on this project...