For the First Time

I designed this broadside and printed it in collaboration with Dina Pollack. It was included in the While You Were Sleeping project launched by Sara Burgess:

In 1440, Gutenberg transformed the way the world received its information, spreading news and ideas to those who wouldn’t have access otherwise. Today’s technology has introduced a barrage of tweets, feeds, email, txts. And as before, a world of good and bad rode in along with it.

I call on the letterpress community to join me in print. To return to the truth. To print in facts, images, and type. Because in our type, we can convey beauty and messages, and call attention to ugliness and hope in ways that nobody else can.

Please choose one headline from the past year that has impacted you the most. Do fact check it from multiple, established, truthful references. Set it. Check it. Print in black and white, or in color. Print ornate, illustrated, or in austere simplicity. Print in all its letterpress glory.

The broadside is about the hiring of Rachel K. Laser as President and CEO of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. The headline is from this Washington Post article, published on 2/21/18.