The Common Press

The Common Press is the letterpress printing studio at the University of Pennsylvania. It is supported by a collaboration of interests at Penn, including writing (15th Room Press, Kelly Writers House), print culture (the Rare Book & Manuscript Library), and visual arts and design (the School of Design). The Common Press was founded on January 17, 2006, the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth. The Common Press provides a mixed media environment to support the teaching of design and fine arts to students, to encourage collaboration on projects across the university, and to expose students to contemporary print culture

Monday, March 29, 2010

SOUTHERN GRAPHICS COUNCIL CONFERENCE 2010
























Last week was a gathering of print people in philly's favorite print places in honor of SGC2010.
Together Greg Pizzoli, from UArts, and Matt Neff, master of The Common Press, put on the Democratic Down N’ Dirty DIY Screen printing BYO-Tshirt event.

On Saturday afternoon, to close the conference, we turned our presses onto print mode and burned a few screens for an Open House! With both Vandercooks running, and four screen-printing stations we made posters (pic below) for you to take home!

HERE ARE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CONFERENCE:

1. THE POMP, at thepompus.com.
Originally trained as a fine artist and tall-walker in West Philadelphia, Avery Lawrence, the proprietor, has relocated his experimental-production workshop to a used bookstore in Charlottesville, VA.
The Pomp offers an array of design services, in particular screen-printed rolls of paper towels and high quality t-shirts -- the shirts last longer.

A printmaking residency in Toronto, Ontario. The space looks beautiful..... lots of windows and light and kind faces.

Printmaking residency in Argentina! Check it out!





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