New Luddite letterpresd now at store.wolfproofpress.com/product/heck... I'm sticking with the union 🎶 I'm sticking with the human. (💜 from yr coder/humanist-printer friend aka me)

Work on a future print explaining the Wolfproof Press name (sheep too floof to wolf!!) 🐑🫸 🐺✨

This historical whale pal ("Moby Dick is about whales") & other poin print variants of it (including the last 3 on the orange checkered background!) are up at store.wolfproofpress.com/product/moby...

& the non-pun "Cruciferous & furious". I am sad to say adding “leeky” to “cabbage patch the holes in our democracy” only occurred to me days after printing

Puns: This machine kales fascism🥬In chard times leaf no one behind🥬Turnip the heat on ICE🥬Stem the tide of legislated racism🥬Napa fascism in the bud🥬Romaine strong vs hate🥬Lettuce resist🥬Cabbage patch the holes in our democracy🥬Squash fascism🥬Thyme to show up for each other🥬Endive deportations now+

Antifascist veggie puns! ("this machine kales fascism" x100) Many, many antifascist veggie puns, plus a print from an actual inked, typehigh slice of cabbage! (If this is too powerful with puns, I made a...

At my print store: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/anti...

(If this is too powerful with puns, I also made a version with cabbage + single pun a couple weeks back: "This machine kales fascists" store.wolfproofpress.com/product/this...)

Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with a gradient of various greens in the ink. It is packed with curving lines of antifascist vegetable and cabbage puns in wood and lead type, wrapped around a full-size actual print from a typehigh-sliced cabbage in neon green. Puns include “this machine kales fascism”, “in chard times, leaf no one behind”, “turnip the heat on ICE”, “stem the tide of legislated racism”, “Napa fascism in the bud”, “Romaine strng against hate”, “cruciferous and furious” (not really a pun), “lettuce resist”, “cabbage patch the holes in our democracy”, “squash fascism”, “thyme to show up for each other”, “endive deportations now”

Photo of letterpress type arranged on a metal printing press bed with ink on the press rollers and type, next to a print made from that type plus a previous printing of a cabbage slice. The print is on white paper with a gradient of various greens in the ink. It is packed with curving lines of antifascist vegetable and cabbage puns in wood and lead type, wrapped around a full-size actual print from a typehigh-sliced cabbage in neon green. Puns include “this machine kales fascism”, “in chard times, leaf no one behind”, “turnip the heat on ICE”, “stem the tide of legislated racism”, “Napa fascism in the bud”, “Romaine strng against hate”, “cruciferous and furious” (not really a pun), “lettuce resist”, “cabbage patch the holes in our democracy”, “squash fascism”, “thyme to show up for each other”, “endive deportations now”

Photo of letterpress type arranged on a metal printing press bed. The type is packed curving lines of antifascist vegetable and cabbage puns, including “this machine kales fascism”, “in chard times, leaf no one behind”, “turnip the heat on ICE”, “stem the tide of legislated racism”, “Napa fascism in the bud”, “Romaine strng against hate”, “cruciferous and furious” (not really a pun), “lettuce resist”, “cabbage patch the holes in our democracy”, “squash fascism”, “thyme to show up for each other”, “endive deportations now”. There is an empty space in the center where the previously printed cabbage slice will go in the final combined print.

Photo of my hand giving a thumbs up next to two typehigh slices of red cabbage blocked in the traditional manner (plus additional safety precautions vs smell/moisture) on a Vandercook printing press bed and inked in neon green

New letterpress print w/many, many antifascist veggie puns (plus a print from an actual inked, typehigh slice of cabbage 🥬) +

Photo of a large letterpress printing block featuring a masc and a femme person in midcenturyish dress passing an enormous, larger than human sized loaf of packaged Roman Meal sliced bread between them excitedly; next to a pen for scale (it's roughly two standard pens tall and one wide)

Photo (digitally flipped for readability) of wood letterpress type and bread printing block arranged on a printing press bed with trans blue-pink gradient ink on the press rollers and type. The type says "Trans joy! & a little bread, as a treat / Amanda Wyatt Visconti / WolfproofPress.com"

Recent yuge add to my queer(ed) letterpress block collection (enthusiastictype.com/transponder 🌈), coming to whenever I print a new version of "trans joy (& a little bread, as a treat)"

Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with dayglo orange borders, a gray inked background from a printed historical photographic block of a crowd of seated gentlemen in suits, inked in gray, their faces obscured by textured squares in darker gray with thin white edges. It says "Be the VIBRANT GLITCH you want to see in the world" in black uppercase Onyx text, except "VIBRANT" is a silver font like a comic-book exclamation, and "GLITCH" is in a glitched font.

Photo of a letterpress print on chipboard tan paper with a light red background and horizontally striped, magenta to orange to yellow orange inked sunset image; it sits below the inked acrylic block that produced the image, on the bed of the press

Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with orange, green, and gradient blue ink. It says "I want a hydroponics of care: see us, water us as seeds before we're buried". "Seeds" is huge, in dayglo orange, and sprinkled with blue-gradient tiny bits from printing actual seeds from my garden

Photo of a letterpress poster with day-glo orange title and footer and black body text on cream paper. The title area says "BIT TYPE: (Bungee Inline, tweaked) / MY 1st CUSTOM TYPE & SPECIMEN SHEET". The body text is the characters A-Z, interspersed with examples of various punctuation marks including quotation marks and ampersand. The footer text says "amanda wyatt visconti" (the type maker and printer). The body text is in an all-caps, blocking "inline" font (which means it has an interior area that's empty of ink).

+So true dayglo inks = literally brighter than norm ink in daylight, but display screens & camera sensors aren't calibrated expecting beyond normal reflections of up to 100% light—so may not mimic how these inks look in person well (re:folks mentioning some of my prints are brighter in person: true)

My understanding is true dayglo inks (chemically different ones, not just "bright colors") literally are brighter than 100% light reflection on standard ink ☀️ Beyond normal ink behavior (reflects light hitting it), fluoro ink *also* absorbs invisible UV light & re-emits it as visible colored light +

As @fosis.bsky.social says, this print is very bright in person! (True dayglo ink is a bit challenging to photo, brightest in daylight given extra UV response)

Closeup photo of a letterpress press bed that has a jumble of diagonal lines of metal (leading) and wood (reglets) packed into a solid square using bright blue magnets, and blocks of wood (furniture). The metal lines are at least slightly higher than everything else in the bed and look like diagonal light rays, and are inked in yellow-orange.

Photo of wood letterpress type and leading rays arranged on a metal printing press bed before blocking into place

The rays are actually letterpress leading (thin lead spacers)—low so that they *don't * print, so a fun challenge to lock up (need to be higher than other spacing, which is usually similar height, so one inks but the other doesn't):

This little light of mine (I'm gonna use it to burn away fascism <3) Quotes Sister Corita Kent's "protest in joy!" at the bottom. Tan stiff chipboard; black, dayglo orange, dayglo yellow inks. The...

"This little light of mine, I'm going to use it to burn away fascism (protest in joy!)" is a dayglo reminder of how bright we can be for one another. (Was thinking of the packed UVA Lawn singing in the dark at the vigil after 2017's Nazi attack; so many more candles than there'd been tiki torches.)

For May 2nd's #DHprints inspo option for International Print Day (image made as Muppet intended 🧐 w/human software use not genAI): printdayinmay.com/virtual-smor...

Join us printing (or other art even) + sharing what you work on that day on 5/2? (my goal is bagel bite pizzapress letterpress & if I make a sticker to send folks who participate it may be related 🍕🎨???)

(Pic #2 includes penciled notes for using my grossly laudatory "The Type Speaks" printing block: "blah blah blah / 'western civ' lol", yes I have a humanities PhD thank u)

Photo of a desk busily laid out with many letterpress word and image printing blocks (cuts, catchwords) over two 13x19" sheets of paper with illegible pencilled notes on placement and future typesetting. They are hard to read due to being horizontally flipped so they print correctly, but include some DIY I made lime a 9" Vandercook press and the acrylic word "letterpress", plus many copper and lead blocks I've slowly collected

Closeup photo of a desk busily laid out with many letterpress word and image printing blocks (cuts, catchwords) over sheets of paper with illegible pencilled notes on placement and future typesetting. This shows a halftone printing block with a rainshower of packaged meats, as well as catchword blocks that say "pink frolic", "CAMP", and "hope"

Photo of a poster-size letterpress print in violet ink on cream paper; it uses many different fonts and images, and includes at the bottom a print saying "made w/💜 by a trans (checkbox) printer (checkbox) ally", where both checkboxes have been checked with black marker, and the outline of a trans flag has been filled in with pink and blue colored pencils. The poster's text says: "Here's your proof letterpress is something special: here's the idea: nearly everybody likes original printing. It's extra great and can be joyful, hopeful, just! (it's a fact!) and heavenly (as in can help kill fascism). Whoopee! Way to go!" with lots of illustrations of cheering people and thumbs up. There's also an image, in parentheses, of a cartoon monk picketing a "Gutenberg Press" shop with a pried sign that says "unfair to scribes". The image is followed by the text "tho..?!" and an asterisked "Gutenberg didn't invent print!!"

Back on my bullshit, aka

"this print wasn't busy enough the first time, I should make a 2-sheet version w/footnotes"

featuring a way to finally use my "hormel rainshower of packaged meats" print block

(original print was for @skeuomorphpress.org printswap last May, pic #3)

So glad they made it to you safe! I can tell I sent them a while back because I've since run out of that rainbow duct tape.

IRIS’s welcome wall, featuring a quilted rainbow banner, a quilted public library sign, an appliqur namer that reads i-r-i-s, and two letterpress prints. One print reads “HTML is the letterpress of the digital world,” and the other features an image of a Luddite throwing something (presumably a clog), with the text “Maybe it’s just vaporware. luddites pointing out the (tech) emperor has no clothes since (well before) 1811. Luddites didn’t “fear technology.” They broke the machines that allowed the rich to enshittify livelihoods. Who’s your tech for? No tech’s adoption is inevitable (lol blockchain). Glitch their cistems.”

An image of a letterpress print titled “This is a printing office.” Text: THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE Like all technology: human choice, if evil or good This place is not a place of honor but it could be a place of hope Refuge of arts, craft, community, learning, a megaphone for justice, fearless truth slipping bit rot & digital censorship; or playing at a whitewashed past; to pretend away present fascism The center of danger is here; the center of hope is here The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours (the possibility, too From this place you may send words of justice, liberation, reparation, collective care; or serving capital, stoking hate A press is but its printers Friend vou stand on ground Myou make sacred-or not THIS is a PRINTING-OFFICE Remixed text (in italics) from Beatrice Warde & Sandia National Laks; & new text by Amanda Wyatt Visconti, VA Ctr for the Book FINFUSE

More art for IRIS, courtesy of @literaturegeek.bsky.social’s @wolfproofpress.com! Critical tech, care ethics, and creative scholarship are all essential to IRIS’s ethos, and it’s so cool to see that inscribed on the space like this. #DigitalHumanities

Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with an orange checkered background, with text and image in navy blue ink. It says "moby dick is about whales (hi); "moby dick" is in a venetian font, "is about" is in a san serif font, "WHALES" is in ornate foliaged square initials, and "hi" is in the same font but coming out of the toothy whale's friendly mouth. There is an illustration of a touthy spouting whale edited from a scan of a 1568 illustration. I know "Moby-Dick" has a hyphen; the lack of hyphen is true to the explicit rhetorical choices of the meme-y quote I'm using.

Photo of a letterpress print on light blue paper with navy blue ink. It says "moby dick is about whales (hi); "moby dick" is in a venetian font, "is about" is in a san serif font, "WHALES" is in ornately foliaged square initial capitals, and "hi" is in the same font but coming out of the toothy whale's friendly mouth. There is an illustration of a touthy spouting whale edited from a scan of a 1568 illustration.

Screenshot of a holographic sticker version of the first version of this letterpress print, which was on light blue paper with navy blue ink. It says "moby dick is about whales (hi); "moby dick" is in a venetian font, "is about" is in a san serif font, "WHALES" is in an Old English font, and "hi" is in the same font but coming out of the toothy whale's friendly mouth. There is an illustration of a touthy spouting whale edited from a scan of a 1568 illustration.

"Moby Dick is about Whales" is back in stock at store.wolfproofpress.com, now w/Extra Ornate type + a 🪩 holographic sticker version benefitting a LGBTQIA+ org (ty @heatherfro.bsky.social for the quoted DH wisdom + 🏳️‍🌈 org suggestion!)

Accidental printing: the backs of this wood type printed their woodgrain texture to the layout paper I had beneath it on the press bed:

Photo of a letterpress print on light blue paper with blue-purple ink in the foreground ("I love my trans self.") over a background where the text "I love my trans friends" has been printed twice (once after rotating 180 degrees over itself) in pastel trans pride flag blue-pink gradient. The print is held in front of a frosted glass door with daylight coming through it.

Photo of a letterpress print on light blue paper with blue-purple ink in the foreground ("I love my trans self.") over a background where the text "I love my trans friends" has been printed twice (once after rotating 180 degrees over itself) in pastel trans pride flag blue-pink gradient

Photo (digitally flipped for readability) of wood capital letterpress type arranged on a metal printing press bed with blue-purple ink on the press rollers. The type says "I love my trans self".

"I love my trans self." over a background of "I love my trans friends" in 🏳️‍⚧️ pastel-gradient: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/i-lo... (there's also a just "I love my trans friends" version: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/i-lo...)

Photo of a letterpress print on bright white paper with bright dayglo orange ink and dark blue-purple ink. The dayglo orange ink says "Read: Zines" in all caps, with the letters "ABC" dropping off "read"'s A, and "XYZ" stacking above "zines"'s Z. It's a chunky, playful, irregular inline font. Around that orange text are a variety of dark blue-purple exclamation marks from various wood-type fonts. The print is arranged on a table next to 3 of my zines: "Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts" (collab), "Queer Book History" (collab), and "Look!! Here's your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy: a collage mini-zine"

Photo of a letterpress print on bright white paper with bright dayglo orange ink and dark blue-purple ink. The dayglo orange ink says "Read: Zines" in all caps, with the letters "ABC" dropping off "read"'s A, and "XYZ" stacking above "zines"'s Z. It's a chunky, playful, irregular inline font. Around that orange text are a variety of dark blue-purple exclamation marks from various wood-type fonts. The print is held up by a hand in front of a frosted-glass door through which soft light is glowing. The print has extra white paper at the bottom in this photo, as I only cut it down to final size after taking this photo.

New in the letterpress store: read #zines! print 📚featuring the 1st movable type I lasercut (1 year ago now 🥲🎂) + brightest-in-person dayglo orange ink (store.wolfproofpress.com/product/read...)

Closeup photo (digitally reflected for readability) of ornate (abstract foliage decorated) metal initial cap movable type letters spelling the word "whales"; the L and S are dropped out of alignment to make the word look playful

hm 🐳

Photo of two frosted acrylic squares lasercut with drawings of origami cranes I'd made

Photo of one of the origami crane blocks inked in black on the printing press

Photo of a print on white paper of that origami crane block, inked in black

Photo of a print on white paper of that origami crane block, inked in raspberry, dayglo light orange, and burgundy via three overlaid, slightly offset printings

Photos from my lasercutting my drawings into acrylic printing plates & test printing them—I wanted this print 👆to be all my own writing & art:

My "Hope is a thing with wings" print uses my own writing (inspired by "I forgot how that Emily Dickinson poem goes"—"a thing w/feathers" lol) + origami cranes I drew w/marker, scanned, & lasercut into printing blocks. Hope as an action, fueled by framings of abundance & care +

Closeups from printing with used wood type 😍 telling stellar 🌌 stories of a thousand past printings

Gorgeous print in shades of blue reading “This is a good time the best time the ONLY time to come together Fractious spilling kicking whirling burly raucous messy FREE Exploding like the seeds of a natural disorder “

Incredible print of the poem “To the woman crying uncontrollably in the next stall” by Kim Addonizio

Vibrant print in black and red and dayglo orange, “Hope is a thing with wings”

Ahhhh I’m just back from traveling and the best package EVER was waiting for me 🤩

Thank you @literaturegeek.bsky.social and @wolfproofpress.com !!!!

If you want amazing prints , look at this gorgeous from @wolfproofpress.com I can’t be thankful enough with @literaturegeek.bsky.social! #DHMakes

I love all the prints, but I’m specially in love with the @wolfproofpress.com sticker!