Community Print Shop Studio

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Bring your art and design work into the material world through this hands-on making course centered on the tools in the d.school Community Printshop. Students will learn to be engaged members of the Printshop through production methods that focus on creating work for their peers and the broader Stanford community. You will receive foundational training in letterpress and risograph printing, linoleum carving, and bookbinding. Work produced in this class will include posters, postcards, zines, and limited edition prints created via illustration, collage, digital design, and traditional plate-making methods. You will gain practical experience in operating a printshop and using Adobe Creative Suite and Spectrolite for file preparation. Letterpress instruction covers printing on platen and cylinder presses, setting and printing from metal and wood type, and using photopolymer plates. Risograph training includes printing from drawings on paper and producing multicolor images from raster and vector files.