Druksels on the Letterpress (Workshop)

Werkman treated the machine (his highly antiquated press) like a comrade....the pair of them turned out creative work together. The richest years in both their lives.

— Willem Sandberg

On his Letterpress, Dutch designer and printer, Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman experimented with wood type, printing blocks, and other type-high found material around his print shop in the early 20th century. He appropriated materials originally intended for verbal text to create typographic visual illustrations. This workshop is designed for participants to work with typographic materials and through hands-on play, learn about Werkman’s printing process only possible with a Hand Press. Together we will create colorful compositions printed by blocks that Werkman called “druksels.” Working in the same vein as Werkman, we produced a series of monoprints that promote the conference Boundless Bound Symposium and Art Book Fair.

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