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#BuildingBookLabs25! (This was not pulling in my own tweets for some reason? May have fixed it, unsure)

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
3 months ago
Fave epigraph I've seen in a while: "Find the others." (In Dana's obsolete duplication tech guide.) As a callback to @eireannmor.bsky.social's recent art ("you are not alone" bsky.app/profile/eire...) now I know what to print as my additive overlay on your #BuildingBookLabs25 print swap screenprint:
Photo of an early inside page of Rich Dana's spiral-bound "Cheap Copies!" guide to obsolete duplication tech; the page is empty except for the epigraph, "Find the others."
Photo of the cover of Rich Dana's ring-bound "Cheap Copies!" guide to obsolete duplication tech, "The OBSOLETE! Press Guide to DIY Hectography. Mimeography & Spirit Duplication". Printed in black on a kraft-cardboard-color cover, spiral-bound
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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
4 months ago
Free @josefbeery.bsky.social guide full of letterpress learning activities—tested+enjoyed by K-12 kids, public, seasoned book artists alike this past year. Faves: zines+cartonera, monster bestiary, & font design+printing w/simple Cricut'd shapes #DHmakes #BuildingBookLabs25 www.bookbeetlepress.com

INTRODUCED AT SKEUOMORPH PRESS! A free 32pp illustrated guide to teaching with the BookBeetle Press. Download from www.bookbeetlepress.com

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
4 months ago
2 resources I mentioned in my "Zines x Values Charters" workshops yesterday: the amazing visual design of the Electric Zine Maker✨ tool; & Jacqui Sahagian's “How the Praxis Charter Helped Me Put Out a Fire” [a literal home fire]: scholarslab.lib.virginia.…. #BuildingBookLabs25
Electric Zine Maker (a work in progress, be gentle, hug it often) by alienmelon

alienmelon.itch.io

Electric Zine Maker (a work in progress, be gentle, hug it often) by alienmelon

The Electric Zine Maker (⚡️📝✂️) is a printshop and art tool for making zines.
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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
4 months ago
I got my latest letterpress lasercut wood blocks to various #BuildingBookLabs25 folks, so can share photos now: trans book history; retro Mac icon for @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social bc Clippy's lines were too thin; BookBeetle logo; Design Futures; 2 x "made w/💜 by a trans ☑️ ally☑️ printer" #DHmakes
Photo of 6 lasercut wood letterpress printing blocks that say: "trans book history", "glitch their cistem", "Design Futures"; 2 x "made w/💜 by a trans ☑️ ally☑️ printer"; and a retro Mac icon, and BookBeetle logo.
Closeup photo of 2 lasercut wood letterpress printing blocks that say: "Design Futures" in bubbly font, "glitch their cistem" in thick cursive
Photo of a lasercut wood letterpress printing block being cut in the lasercutter, with half of its text readable and the other half not cut yet; it will say: "made w/[blank space] by a trans ☑️ ally☑️ printer"
Closeup photo of a lasercut wood letterpress printing block, not type high, that says "trans book history" in Erin Moore's bubbly Vision font

Lasercut 7 new letterpress blocks from wood today (cherry, hard maple, Shina plywood/basswood, white ash; from best to worst results) but waiting to share photos as they're gifts for folks at next week's @skeuomorphpress.org BookLabs symposium. Mix of mistakes, middling, & good results #DHmakes

Photo of the Scholars' Lab Makerspace lasercutter, named Vader, a large oven-sized royal blue container with a pipe to ventilate it and glass top to see the laser working through. Some lasercut wood airplanes and Star Wars ships, and a laser engraved piece of leather that dates "Vader", are visible on the back of the machine
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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
4 months ago
#BuildingBookLabs25 is such a good gathering—extra appreciated being near booklabbers+hearing advice given our community printshop is being shutdown; +how many see SJ advocacy as part of BookLabs 💜 There was a print swap! 🤩 I have so many cool new prints to hang! (People wanted copies of my work!?)
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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
4 months ago
Haunting artist book by @transbookhistory.bsky.social, progresses from "Mary Ann Waters is a free Black woman" print via stages of evolving prints to a full archival mention of a Black trans woman that misgenders+unfrees her, shows previous prints selected the true text from that #BuildingBookLabs25
Photo of Kadin Henningsen's "Mary Waters is a free Black woman" artist book, a horizontal, externally bound book with brown kraft paper covers, and the title text letters printed in the front cover
Photo of Kadin Henningsen's "Mary Waters is a free Black woman" artist book, a horizontal book with text printed in black ink on cream paper, showing the title text beginning to evolve or devolve into other letters and words
Photo of a late page in Kadin Henningsen's "Mary Waters is a free Black woman" artist book, a horizontal book with text printed in black ink on cream paper, showing the title text deeply evolved or devolved into other letters and words surrounding that title text but not quite legible as full phrases
Photo of the last page in Kadin Henningsen's "Mary Waters is a free Black woman" artist book, a horizontal book with text printed in black ink on cream paper, showing the title text, after pages of that title text becoming increasingly surrounded by letters, words, and half-words, finally resolves into a full printed paragraph showing the text was selected from an archival historical news piece that misgenders and unfrees Mary Waters, causing a rereading of an the previous text pages
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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
4 months ago
Carson Koepke presented on hands-on teaching involving lasercutting a linocut version of a woodcut + making prints w/students—we got to hold them (lino block is over 12"x14"!): #BuildingBookLabs25
Photo of linocut lasercarved from a historical woodcut original by Carson Koepke and students, showing an over 14" wide and 12" tall thin piece of linoleum that's been carved to show 24 old tarot-y card faces
Photo of linocut print from a lasercut lino block made from a historical woodcut original by Carson Koepke and students, showing an over 14" wide and 12" tall thin print in red ink on cream paper showing 24 old tarot-y card faces
Closeup photo of linocut print from a lasercut lino block made from a historical woodcut original by Carson Koepke and students, showing an over 14" wide and 12" tall thin print in charcoal ink on cream paper showing 24 old tarot-y card faces
Closeup photo of linocut lasercarved from a historical woodcut original by Carson Koepke and students, showing a small section of an over 14" wide and 12" tall thin piece of linoleum that's been carved to show 24 old tarot-y card faces; it shows the edge and the link is tilted slightly to demonstrate how thin the block is
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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
4 months ago
Teaching 2 sessions of “Zines x Values: writing collab charters-as-minizines for your booklab” today @ #BuildingBookLabs25. Using a v1 minizine workbook I made, modeled on Jess Walters’ “Exchanging Perspectives” minizine+teaching, & @rondagrizzle.bsky.social's charter teaching. +

skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu

Building Book Labs Schedule – Skeuomorph Press
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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
4 months ago
#BuildingBookLabs25 Help relieve me of free zines I brought to share @ printswap+PM coffee? Book arts= *Soullelis What Is Queer Typography? *Stain Stencil Printmaking: History/Info/How To *Shepherd How to make a zine in 6 easy steps *My Look! Here's Your Unusual Letterpress Blocks Invitation to Joy+
Photo of 7 printed paper zines spread out on a desk, with a mix of black and white, and color covers: Ammon Shepherd's "How to make a zine in 6 easy steps", Stain’s “Stencil Printmaking: History/Info/How To”, Visconti’s “Look! Here’s your usual letterpress blocks invitation to joy”; "DIY Web Archiving" by Dombrowski, Kijas, Kreymer, Walsh, Visconti; Kaba’s “One Million Experiments”, Wolfgang’s "Supporting & affirming queer & trans students+the teachers who teach them”, and the collectively authord “Trans people exist in the future”
Photo of the spread front and back cover of Paul Soullelis’ “What Is Queer Typography?” zine, which uses pink paper and calligraphic font, darker pink annotating text and highlights, and black photographic images from AIDS and queer protests
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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
4 months ago
Took @eireannmor.bsky.social's lofi screenprinting #BuildingBookLabs25 workshop! How to make big, interesting posters w/o washout station nor exposure unit; possible to print on things from the recycling pile; can ignore registration & just focus on making art to help us think about text #DHmakes
Photo of wax paper where the word "makeready" has been cut out with an exact knife; the final y"'s tail extends back across the page under the entire rest of the word
Photo of wax paper where the words "linocut", "bunny", and "makeready" have been cut out with an exact knife; they've been taped to the back of a screen held taut inside a wooden screenprinting frame
Photo of a screenprinting frame with a squeegee, where the screen has been covered in fluorescent orange ink, and the words "linocut bunny" are just visible through the ink and screen
A screenprint of the word "makeready" with the final y"'s tail extending back across the page under the entire rest of the word, in forever orange ink on white paper
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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
4 months ago
Took #BuildingBookLabs25 workshop today by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social on running printing spaces in difficult times (especially navigating: someone wanting support printing something you think is hate speech but your uni/funders don't; people angry at you for something someone printed w/your press)+
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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
4 months ago
#BuildingBookLabs25: past "BookLab" term use by a @kmkraus.bsky.social class in 2012, large attendance at 2023 @rarebookschool.bsky.social "Building a BookLab" course
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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
4 months ago
Haven't travelled to a conference since pre-pandemic, so haven't had to say this for years: I am only extroverted online, and shy in person, but love meeting people. Please do say hi if you're at #BuildingBookLabs25 & want to chat! I'm in the white-grey tshirt w/red "queer bibliography" text today+
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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
4 months ago
@ryancordell.org these are beautiful! #buildingbooklabs25
Photo of printed tote bag with Skeuomorph Press diskette logi, Building Book Labs blue and pink letters printed program, and blue on cream paper letters printed "a book is..." card
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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
4 months ago
. @ryancordell.org shouts out @josefbeery.bsky.social for his BookBeetle—how Ryan's press started yrs ago. Josef is @ the event if you've BookBeetle Qs—including re:designing a kid-safe common press replica, his 8+ letterpress workshop modules for K-12 students, libraries, public #BuildingBookLabs25
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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
4 months ago
Made a starter pack for @ryancordell.org/@skeuomorphpress.org's #BuildingBookLabs25 Symposium's tagged posts & attendees (missed anyone?): bsky.app/starter-pack... To see just tagged posts (since participants may also post unrelated things), hashtag-only feed is: bsky.app/profile/did:... +

#DHmakes ish event tag: #buildingbooklabs25 (Tues-Wed) for illumination (@leoba.bsky.social), collab broadside prints, lofi screenprinting (@eireannmor.bsky.social), zinemaking w/me, needlework, papermaking, teaching via typewriters (@isabellaviega.bsky.social) + BookBeetle (@josefbeery.bsky.social)

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
4 months ago
#DHmakes ish event tag: #buildingbooklabs25 (Tues-Wed) for illumination (@leoba.bsky.social), collab broadside prints, lofi screenprinting (@eireannmor.bsky.social), zinemaking w/me, needlework, papermaking, teaching via typewriters (@isabellaviega.bsky.social) + BookBeetle (@josefbeery.bsky.social)

Prepping for my workshop "Make your own Illuminated Initial" next week at the BookLab Symposium sponsored by @skeuomorphpress.org and I am EXCITED

Photo of a stack of handmade paper printed with outlines of large initial letters
screenshot of a slide that reads: Make your own Illuminated Initial, Dot Porter, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Building Book Labs Symposium, May 20, 2025. The large initials in the title are colored Red and Blue. All the text is in a medieval gothic font.
Screenshot of a slide that reads: Header: Why a workshop on making illuminated initials? To provide insight into historical bookmaking practices To illustrate the labor involved in the work To present a good entry point for the study of medieval manuscripts. Because… Illumination is neat and pretty! To give students a fun, creative method for learning, and they have something to take away and share with friends
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