letterpress links
Briar Press: one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern Letterpress World. This is the leading online community for classifieds, press information, and discussion forums. You can pleasantly lose a few hours in their Museum of Printing Presses, featuring great photos and technical information about the essential letterpresses.
Five Roses' Introduction to Letterpress Printing: this is the most comprehensive starting guide if you're just getting into letterpress. You'll get a good sense of the big picture of letterpress in all its rambling beauty.
Oak Knoll Books: this small publisher's focus is typography and the history of printing. If you're interested in the history of our craft, you'll be interested in their books. They also sell a lot of used editions of famous letterpress books. Note that checking out this site may cause some damage to your wallet.
America Printing History Association: produces the journal Printing History, which has valuable articles about printing's past. They also publish interesting books and hold conferences related to the history of letterpress.
Wells Book Arts Center: famous for having the most Vandercooks per student of any higher education facility. Wells organizes books, seminars, and classes around letterpress printing in Victor Hammer's old studio. Wells also happens to be one of the prettiest campuses we've ever seen. Part of the Finger Lakes Letterpress Tour.
ppletterpress: a yahoo group e-mail list for discussion about photopolymer plates and letterpress. Moderated by Gerald Lange.
letpress: the largest online mailing list dedicated to the discussion of letterpress in general.
The Press and Letterfoundry of Michael & Winifred Bixler: the Bixlers are one of the few remaining typecasters of lead type, producing historic English monotype faces. A must-see stop on the Finger Lakes Letterpress tour.
I Love Letterpress blog: written by a true lover of letterpress, the highlight of this site is the extensive list of commercial letterpress shops across the country.
Adventures in Letterpress blog : one of the best ideas for a blog that we've seen! Join this British Columbia designer and printer as she tackles letterpress printing.
VandercookPress.Info: Want to know anything about the Vandercook? We mean anything? Check Paul Moxon's Vandercook site. Oh yes, of course, there's his Vanderblog as well
AAPA Letterpress: If you need more links to letterpress resources, then check out the American Amateur Press Association page devoted to letterpress links. It seems that Dave Tribby has been updating this list regularly for at least ten years.
Book Art Centers
The Minnesota Center for Book Arts: we have a special spot in our hearts for this book arts center, as this is where Harold first interned, and later became printer-in-residence during Boxcar's early years.
The Center for Book Arts (NYC): The original book arts center.
Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts (Chicago)
The San Francisco Center for the Book
School of Visual Concepts (Seattle)
Other places offering letterpress classes
Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena, CA)
Asheville Bookworks (Asheville, NC)
Augusta Heritage Center of Davis and Elkins College (Elkins, WV)
Garage Annex School for Book Arts (Easthampton, MA)
Massachusetts College of Art Continuing Education (Boston, MA)
Oregon College of Art & Craft Continuing Education Program ( Portland, OR)
Otis College of Art and Design Continuing Education Program (Los Angeles, CA)
Penland School of Crafts ( Penland, NC)
Pratt Fine Arts Center ( Seattle, WA)
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center (Silver Spring, MD)
School of Visual Arts Continuing Education (New York, NY)
Other interesting links
Phantom Pilots: Call us and ask to be put on hold, so you can hear the music of this local Syracuse band that we love....
Doug Lloyd photography: Doug, located just down the hall from us in the Delavan Center, did most of the photography on our site, including these gorgeous press portraits. He's a true artist and we love his work.
Otto Von Mo: This great video production company, also located just down the hall from us in the Delavan Center, created the Boxcar Institute Training Series videos for us. We love these guys too.
Tumbledry Low: the occasionally updated site of Debbie Urbanski, featuring the best salons internationally for women with short hair to get a great hair cut.
Urbanski Film: Debbie’s dad’s site, featuring lots of 8mm and 16mm film, projectors, and 1950’s TV shows! Debbie's dad has the largest film archive in the Midwest.