Stopped by @skeuomorphpress.org to check on the students running our Boneyard activities &
1. The linocut poster, designed by practicum student Rosario, is *incredible*. I want cuts of these animals setting type, printing, &c.!!
2. Even the adults loved practicum student Isabel’s typewriter races
Yellow embroidered photo of a black dog in yellow sun glasses
Poster print for Boneyard Arts Festival with various animals and printing tools printed.
I set our specific time today to go to 2 activities at the Boneyard Art Festival. Photo Embroidery and finally go to see the Fab Lab. Met a few grads and got to spread the word we have cartography on campus:). So much fun! @skeuomorphpress.org
Locals! Boneyard Arts Festival is this weekend! Lots to do at the FabLab tomorrow—back in @skeuomorphpress.org we'll be printing an incredible linocut poster designed by a practicum students, while another is running "typewriter races" for kids—she even made some awesome typewriter button prizes!
This morning @drtlwagner.bsky.social’s “Queering Information” class @ischoolui.bsky.social is here creating a collaborative class poster. So much fun with our new Vandercook 4T!
Today colleagues from the College Faculty Association are @skeuomorphpress.org this afternoon printing posters for next week’s talk “AI Is Not Inevitable” by Britt Paris—come to the talk to claim one! cfaillinois.org/2026/03/31/a...
Two books on a table: "Cheap Copies!: The Obsolete Press Guide to DIY Hectography, Mimeography and Spirit Duplication" by Rich Dana and "A Rant About Technology" by Urusla K. LeGuin in a biutiful print by Skeuomorph Press.
Four books in Spanish on a rable: Avenida 10 de Julio by Nona Fernández Silanes, La paciencia del agua sobre cada piedra by Alejandra Kamiya, La libertad total by Pablo Katchadjian, and Cielos de Córdoba by Federico Falco
Package from across el charco (el Atlántico)! With books from #HalfLetterPress #ObsoletePress, @skeuomorphpress.org, #EternaCadencia & @blattyrios.bsky.social 🤩 #BookWorm
A green cubicle wall with two letterpress prints pinned to it. One is a trans gradient that says Infrastructure is something we owe to one another. The other is fiery and says in black Technology is the active human interface with the material world.
I'm always thinking about @halperta.bsky.social's lineage activity and ways we can set visible reminders at work.
I'm thrilled to have @skeuomorphpress.org and @wolfproofpress.com prints hanging in my cubicle. Love having the words of @megsmith.bsky.social and Le Guin on display with my books!
I’m excited about this upcoming talk sponsored by the Campus Faculty Association: "AI Is Not Inevitable" with Britt Paris
We’ll be making some talk-related posters @skeuomorphpress.org with CFA members & they’ll be available at the event!
cfaillinois.org/2026/03/31/a...
Vandercook guru @paulmoxon.bsky.social is @skeuomorphpress.org today to get our new (to us) 4T humming. So excited to have this machine running for our community!
So many goodies coming tomorrow to Skeuomorph!!
Announcing the 2nd talk in our new "Media Necromancy" speaker series! Tue 4/28 10-11am
Jess Whyte—University of Toronto Libraries—will present "What the Disk Remembers: Traces, Forensics, & Care in Media Recovery"
"the disk remembers things its donor may not have known they were donating" More at:
Ok, here’s a proof of the 2nd layer, which adapts a broadside published in April of 1854 to warn Black residents of Boston about slave-catchers in the city, following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act www.nps.gov/articles/000...
The most wonderfully chaotic day in BookLab is printing day @skeuomorphpress.org, but we did it! We printed an octavo on the hand press & a half-sheet quarto on the jobbing press—every student got to ink, manage paper, pull the hand press, & run the jobber—made 1 copy for everyone plus a few extras
In the inaugural “Media Necromancy” talk @skeuomorphpress.org, @drtlwagner.bsky.social asks “what does it mean to take seriously obsolescence as a fundamental part of queer archival work?”
I working on my slides for this and oscillating between the format of a media studies presentation and an information science presentation. The jury is still out on which side will win 👾📼🏳️🌈
In 1 week @drtlwagner.bsky.social will kick off our new "Media Necromancy" speaker series with “’As Usual You Have Produced Yet Another Installment Worthy of Archiving’: The Persistence of Obsolescence in Queer Information & Media Technologies" more at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/our-research...
Our workshop with @blountben.bsky.social last week was a blast—we still can’t believe everyone made 3 books in just one two hour workshop!
Oof, it’s “Skyline Type Foundry.” Really wish there was an edit button here sometimes!
New internet sorts from Skylinr Type Foundry arrived, for all your URL/social media letterpress printing needs!
And if you want to arrange a workshop, tour, or class visit, email us at skeuomorph-press@illinois.edu
In the foreground are trays of wooden type, and blurry in the background is a group of students in a circle working
Skeuomorph’s spring semester 2026 public hours are set! We’ll be open Sundays 1-5, & Tuesdays & Wednesdays 5-9.
If you have a project in mind or just want to experiment with our equipment and collections, come by during community hours to chat with our student assistants & get your hands inky!
Two prints with orange and black ink on white paper
Very happy to add this Le Guin quotation print from @skeuomorphpress.org to my prints about print collection!
My @skeuomorphpress.org copy of LeGuin's On Technology finally arrived yesterday and it's so beautiful. Going to be a centrepiece on my office bookshelves for sure
A poster for a talk reading: “As Usual You Have Produced Yet Another Installment Worthy of Archiving”: The Persistence of Obsolescence in Queer Information & Media Technologies Travis Wagner, Assisant Professor, School of Information Sciences Queer communities are early adopters of emergent technologies, whether video cameras to document the HIV/AIDS epidemic or microblogging platforms like Tumblr to explore new identity categories. Yet the same technologies queer communities foster are subject to the most rampant obsolescence, making the formats of these objects difficult to preserve & make accessible. As a question of archival materials, queer history seems inextricably linked to obsolescence. In this talk, Dr. Travis Wagner (they/them) asks, what might it mean to take this question of queer archival obsolescence seriously? Through a series of archival object case studies, Wagner will call attention to how data exists within the objects of queer history, how they represent the circulation and use of information within queer communities in their historical moments, & how they pose challenges to ensuring their long-term preservation. Wagner will interrogate the sociotechnical nature of queerness & obsolescence as co-constitutive forces & argue that obsolescence can serve as a generative tool to think about the past, present, & future of queer archives in an age where the promises of technology seem limitless, yet prove deeply biased & exclusionary. WHEN: WHERE: Also: Tuesday, February 17th 2026, 1-2pm SKEUOMORPH PRESS, CU Community Fablab 1301 S. GoodWin AVE. Urbana, IL 61801 SNACKS!
Then later in February @drtlwagner.bsky.social will kick off a new "Media Necromancy" speaker series—we’re still chatting with folks about ideas, but are hoping for 1-2 more talks in this series over the spring semester, with more next year skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/our-research...
A poster for "Making an Artist’s Book" workshop with Ben Blount. There is a picture of Ben in front of a wall of wood type, the Skeuomorph Press logo in the corner, and text reading: In this fast-paced, hands-on workshop, visiting artist Ben Blount will dive into the basics of bringing conceptual ideas to life in the form of an artist’s book. Participants will learn about artist’s books, start with some simple formats, and then dive into creating mock-ups for big conceptual ideas. No experience necessary. When: Wednesday, February 4 from 3-5pm Where: Skeuomorph Press, in the CU Community FabLab Spots are limited, so please RSVP: https://forms.gle/6tdARcAGHNXpo2kF9
In a few weeks Ben Blount will be leading a public workshop "Making an Artist’s Book"—& a private workshop to develop exhibit materials with the "Virality of Racial Terror" research group—more info & a registration link for the public workshop here: skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/making-an-ar...
Planning a semester @skeuomorphpress.org with adequate staffing & an actual budget is wild, after 3 years at Huskiana & 4 here of cobbling infrastructure together on the fly—we’ll have more community hours, some public workshops, & a new speaker series—I truly hope we can be an oasis in this moment
Register for our 1st event of the spring semester, a workshop with Ben Blount about making artist’s books—no experience required!
skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/making-an-ar...
letterpress-printed, custom-illustrated 18"x24" poster with a quote from Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Rant About 'Technology'": "Technology is the active, human interface with the material world."
New @ursulakleguin.com print from @skeuomorphpress.org arrived
Two posters with the Ursula K Leguin quote about technology, a poster that says "needs more spreadsheets" and assorted other fun stickers
Spending a Saturday at YarnLab means I get to hang up my new @skeuomorphpress.org poster next to its predecessor poster, along with a @sheerspite.bsky.social sticker and other colorful goodness. #DHmakes
desk with desktop monitor, screen print that says “technology is the active human interface with the material work — ursula k le guin” in a black frame, and a speaker
technology among the technology! tysm @skeuomorphpress.org!