Moore Wood Type

What do you call them: manicules, indexes, printer’s fist, or pointers? I just like making them for letterpress printers. They're available in my online store in pairs at 12 and 8 line.

Manicules, Indexes, Printer’s Fist, or Pointers | MOORE WOOD TYPE One of the prize finds on E-Bay or in an antique shop is a Manicule. That is the historic name for what some people call a “Printer’s Fist”, a “Pointer”, or an “Index”. They have been cast in hot metal for hundreds of years, and pantograph cut in hard maple starting around 1835. The wood type versio...

My friend Bob Kelemen creates the neatest letterpress posters for my wood type workshops at Kent State and Akron where he teaches, this one got into the Hamilton New Impressions exhibition! Do you see the resemblance?

New Impressions Spotlight: "Type Artiste" by Bob Kelemen. Bob is a Cleveland-based graphic designer and artist specializing in letterpress printing. He has a special interest in letterpress printing, teaching workshops and classes as well as and running his own letterpress studio, Black Walnut Letterpress, in his backyard barn. His personal letterpress work ranges from traditional to experimental. Bob’s prints frequently combine vintage wood and metal typography with found objects, such as game pieces, dice, dominoes, Lego building blocks, vinyl record albums, saw blades and wood scraps. Music and a sense of humor play key roles in his work.

Been focused on learning how to use my new laser cutter, here's a William Page Shaded Star that engrave on the laser to replicate hand engraving http://moorewoodtype.com/2015/07/william-page-shaded-stars/

William Page Shaded Stars | MOORE WOOD TYPE One of the best parts of having a daughter who is a printer and educator is that she always keeps an eye out for new wood type ideas that other printers would like. During the Amalgamated Printers’ Association 2015 Chicago Wayzgoose Erin went to spend the afternoon at the Newberry Library. While loo…

Cutting type and preparing maple blocks for the Type on the Cob II Ladies of Letterpress conference this week. See you in Iowa!

Please support my daughter Erin's project Pressing On: The Letterpress Film on Kickstarter. It all adds up and will allow future letterpress printers to understand where the knowledge and techniques came from. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1243535289/pressing-on-the-letterpress-film

Pressing On – The Letterpress Film | MOORE WOOD TYPE This is the documentary film my daughter Erin is working on. I am very proud of what she is doing. Most of the people who will be interviewed, IF IT IS FUNDED, are my friends and members of the MWT Advisory Committee. They have helped me to be able to cut wood type. They are free with good advise…

MWT laser cutter: testing blocks to determine raster engraving setting. Leak in exhaust system hose. Room a little smokey!

I'm proud of Erin and the Pressing On: The Letterpress Film project on Kickstarter. This weekend I am working on surfacing wood for all the Legacy Chromatic ornaments. http://tinyurl.com/letterpressfilmKickstarter

Pressing On: The Letterpress Film A documentary about the survival of letterpress and the remarkable printers who preserve the history and knowledge of the craft.

More great news from Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum and there's the wood type DDC logo that I lasercut for Aaron Draplin this past Summer on one of the Field Notes. And a MWT Wisconsin too!

The Portland Project - Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum Good things take time. Back in September of 2011, my good friend and Hamilton Artistic Board member, Nick Sherman came to me with a proposal. Via email, he introduced me to his friend Jim Coudal of Field Notes with the idea of having us print a note book for them. I loved the idea but was daunted by…

A true craftsmen and carpenter helping Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, how great!

The Idea of Building 18 Display Cabinets - Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum I was looking at Wisconsin sites on the web and found one about interesting places to see around Manitowoc. I never heard of wood type and the history of that industry, so I looked at the Hamilton site and recorded the address. A year later I looked again and the museum was moving. They had work wee…

Brand new MWT Boxes of Dots now available in the store: http://moorewoodtype.bigcartel.com/product/box-of-assorted-dots

Every Printer needs some Dots | MOORE WOOD TYPE In the past four years of cutting wood type and working with printers from all over the world I have been amazed to find that with all the beautiful catchwords, ornaments, stars and snowflakes I make, they keep telling me how much they use the dots. I have always made dots from the beginning. Some j…

Starshaped Press shares her process for setting and printing her incredible New Year's card featuring our collaborative snowflakes, wow!

New Year, New Type Starting a new year with a printed homage to great type is always a good idea. Starshaped scored a great deal of new metal and wood type this year and it's time it pulled some weight. So this year'...

Jennifer Farrell and her six Snowflakes by Starshaped Press designs followed Page’s design principals and artistry. Read more about our collaboration

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow | MOORE WOOD TYPE One of my favorite parts of cutting new wood type is working with gifted printers and graphic designers on their special projects. One of the best joint ventures has been with Jennifer Farrell of Starshaped Press in Chicago. Jennifer is a friend of both my daughter and me. She has been on the Moo…

I had a wonderful Christmas, my printer daughter Erin gave me a copy of Alphabets of Wood signed by Sandro and Silvio of Tipoteca Italiana. Roni got me socks.

Alphabets of Wood by James Clough and Chiara Scattolin - Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum Alphabets of Wood. Luigi Melchiori and the history of Italian wood type is the first attempt to survey the hitherto unknown history of wood type in Italy. This book sprung from an encounter with the life and work of Luigi Melchiori, a skilled craftman who lived and worked during the late ninteenth a…

been busy filling holiday orders, lots of printers must be on Santa's Nice List this year!

my buddy Brad Vetter is having a gig poster sale until 9/22 including this one featuring MWT Ornament #23 and Line Ornaments #12 http://moorewoodtype.bigcartel.com/product/mwt-line-ornament-23

Spanish Pipedream Two color print 12.5" x 22" One of my favorite musicians is the legendary John Prine. This quote is from his song Spanish Pipedream. It always seemed like a good motto to have. This print would be a good gift or perfect hanging in your own country kitchen.

on my way to the Great Northern Printer's Fair in Iowa with my friend Dave Peat, looking forward to seeing lots of printer friends soon!

happy to see Silver Buckle Press proofing off their new Moore Wood Type ornaments, hope the students enjoy the type, thanks for the purchase!

Latest specimen sheet showing some of our new acquisition of ornaments from Moore Wood Type. Thanks to the Friends of the Library who gave Silver Buckle Press a grant for the type purchase. We are reveling!

friend Matt of Virgin Wood Type wrote a kind, wonderful synopsis of my history as a type cutter and about his visit to my shop — letterpress people (especially wood type ones) are the greatest

Wood Type Travelogue: Moore Wood Type | VIRGIN WOOD TYPE On a recent sleepy, summer Sunday, my wife and I visited with Scott Moore of Moore Wood Type in Columbus, Ohio. It was only fitting that I needed to take the Hamilton Road exit on the freeway to get to Scott’s house. Scott became a student of all things Hamilton Wood Type when his daughter, Erin Bec…

MWT friend Starshaped Press wrote a great recap of the APA Waygoose Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum featuring my type cutting workshop! (and some funny pictures of Erin, my printer daughter)

The APA Goose 2014 It's always a treat to drive up to Hamilton for a visit, especially when it involves seeing our print and type friends from the Amalgamated Printers Association, a group I've been a part of for 10+...

Road Trip Day 1: touring the School of the Art Institute of Chicago letterpress studio and then up to the Platen Press Museum to see my printer friend Paul