With an emphasis on play, experimentation, and embracing the unexpected, we will dive into Signal Return’s extraordinary collection of wood and metal type to create one-of-a-kind typographic prints and collages.

We’ll expand on the basics of handset type and traditional methods of printing by exploring repetition, masking, layering, color-mixing, and collage to explore the unique visual potential of typographic forms.

At the end of this two-day workshop, you’ll walk away with some new lock-up and printing techniques, a renewed appreciation for type, and a handful of unique, single edition prints.

Cost of workshop includes materials, instruction by S-R staff and takeaway prints. Paper in this workshop is from French Paper Company, a small Michigan Paper Mill around for more than 140 years.

Saturday, July 20, 10am-4pm &
Sunday, July 21, 10am-4pm

PRICE: $275

Class Size: Maximum 8

Ingrid Ankerson is an educator, letterpress printer, maker, and graphic designer in Ypsilanti, MI. She has an undergraduate degree in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin and a graduate degree in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore. She has worked as a web and print designer, writer, editor, and teacher since the early days of the internet. Today she is a full-time graphic design faculty member at Washtenaw Community College. She started pursing her passion for printing in 2016 after taking a letterpress workshop at Penland School of Craft.