![]() ![]() ![]() You’ll be free to ask questions or inquire about letterpress related issues. We will schedule a Zoom meeting with you where you can essentially look over our shoulder at us locking up your page. For the scan / photo, we will make sure it is the right size and all for us to proceed. Once you’ve design your page you’ll send us the digital file or a clean, squared-off scan / photo of it. Click here to watch the ENTIRE process in a video on our YouTube channel (57:44). Step #3 : PAGE LOCK-UP of your meander book design. ![]() Step #2 : DESIGNING YOUR PAGE LAYOUT with Illustrator / Photoshop, cut-and-paste, or tracing. There will be a video available explaining the project if you cannot make the live Zoom gathering. Our plan is to schedule multiple Zoom meetings where you will be free to ask questions about the project or letterpress printing in general. Step #1 : INTRODUCTION and EXPLANATION of the meander book workshop. There are essentially 5 steps to your involvement. We will do the work after you do the design for your page Īll interaction components will be held over Zoom. Good to knowįor 12 people in a group, age 10 and better The double pages are workshops with fewer students (6 - 8) where they work in spreads instead of single pages (9 - 14). THE TOP IMAGE shows the results from a number of workshops working with a number of schools. You are encouraged to color outside the lines, play, and experiment with your typographic opportunities. You're in charge of only one little page out of 14, but it's yours alone to command as you will. The 3rd image below shows the architectural form of the final book. On the right is the final 2-color printed broadside which makes up the text block of an accordion-fold book. On the left is the lock up of fourteen 4" x 5" pages of wood & metal type used for the 2nd color (red). You can see where you'll be headed in the photo above. In decades past the venue was a lauded theatre and in addition to hosting performances by Houdini in 1904, it welcomed the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Julie Andrews and Stevie Wonder on stage.⬆ This workshop project is all about density and being observant. Most know it as a casino, but just inside the door is a display featuring one of Harry Houdini’s straitjackets. We wound our way to Leicester Square and stopped at the Hippodrome. The same premise behind that deception is sometimes used today to conjure eerie performances by long-dead musicians. It featured buildings frequented by illusionists, famed magicians and diagrams of classic magic tricks – Pepper’s ghost, for example, was the name of a mirror-based trick that allowed a ‘ghoul’ to appear on stage. James carried a handy flipbook of old photos to complement his patter. John Nevil Maskelyne, an English magician and inventor of the pay toilet (you inserted a coin to operate it, hence the phrase “spend a penny”) ran the hall and was a frequent performer. We’d be learning about London’s magical history from the mid-1800s to the early-1900s and this, we were informed, was a theatre for some of the world’s best illusionists at around that time. Joined by my friend, we marched to an innocuous office block near Fortnum & Mason. They explore the capital’s surprisingly rich history of magic, detailing the relationships and rivalries of famous magicians and revealing the locations where they performed. This was our personal magician – and historian – for the afternoon, James Pritchard.Ī member of the Magic Circle and a performer since the age of 11, James regularly appears at corporate events and weddings and also offers private walking tours around London. I glanced around apprehensively and suddenly there he was: a red-headed gent wearing jeans and a black blazer, with a holdall in one hand. I was late, and looking for both the man in question and for a friend who’d agreed to chaperone. We’d arranged to meet at a well-known spot in St James’s. ![]()
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