All students enter the program in the fall and must spend four semesters in residence. The configurations of advanced courses will be determined through discussion with the Book Arts Faculty. Craft skills used in fine letterpress printing are introduced in a studio environment. The emphasis is on setting type, letterpress printing, and basic typographic design. The focus is on typographic design, editorial decision-making, color and image integration, and press work.
Emphasis is on production, with manuscript selection and editing being critical aspects.
Photopolymer platemaking processes are introduced in a desktop publishing environment adapted to historic tools and mediums. Such subjects as marketing and distribution of limited edition books are covered. Printing IV . Refinement of typographical sensibility coupled with advanced book production experience, culminating in a limited edition handmade volume. Drawing upon both the historic and contemporary western bookbinding tradition, this course is an initiation into fundamental binding forms, techniques, materials, and design.