Print Books
Why did typesetters get paid to compose metal type and then throw it away? How did one New York Times printer stay employed for over 50 years on a "job for life"? What — what I ask you! — does flong mean?!
A visually rich celebration of the newspaper comic as an art form and object of industrial production, from the 1890s to the 2020s. Signed and inscribed.
Six Centuries of Type & Printing tells the story of the evolution of type and printing. It starts in Asia, before Johann Gutenberg, then takes you generation by generation through increasing sophistication in metal and relief printing and type manufacture.
Ebooks
Why did typesetters get paid to compose metal type and then throw it away? How did one New York Times printer stay employed for over 50 years on a "job for life"? What — what I ask you! — does flong mean?!
If you're interested in type, printing, and language and where they intersect, you'll enjoy this book of ten researched and reported articles written in 2016 and 2017.
Six Centuries of Type & Printing tells the story of the evolution of type and printing, from Asia before Gutenberg through the digital age.
The Magazine published nearly 300 non-fiction stories across its 28 months in existence as a fortnightly electronic periodical. We produced 58 issues from October 2012 to December 2014 — over 500,000 words from 150 authors.
Audiobooks
The audiobook edition is a 130-minute version of the book, read aloud at a comfortable pace by the author.
Posters & Prints
This unique letterpress-printed work on handmade paper, suitable for framing, showcases a 1991 Zippy the Pinhead comic strip by re-creating the cartoon on a single sheet as a historic printing mold (a "mat" or "flong") and as a letterpress print.
Designed and printed by artist, educator, and printer Stephanie Carpenter for inclusion in the Tiny Type Museum & Time Capsule, just a handful of signed and numbered prints remain.
An 11×17-inch high-quality giclée archival ink-jet print on art paper from a high-resolution scan of an elaborate multi-pass letterpress poster drawing on elements of The Incomparable podcast network's iconography. Limited numbered edition of no more than 100.
Other
Get a replica of a classic piece of printing and typographic history: a type matrix (mold) used in Monotype hot-metal casting for display type, sizes about 14 to 36 points. Each matrix order is mailed flat with an insert card explaining its place in history and what the markings on it mean.