Moving Pictures: Animated Letterpress at Penland

March 9-May 2, 2014 at Penland School of Crafts:
Moving Pictures: Animated Letterpress with Rory Sparks

Let’s get things moving! We’ll explore various methods of incorporating kinetic design and animation into our letterpress work, including flip books, thaumotropes, zoopraxiscopes, red/cyan 3d anaglyphs, mobiles, and combinations of all of the above. We’ll cover the fundamentals of letterpress including press operation, typesetting, and polymer plates, and we’ll use various low-tech methods for getting images onto paper. We’ll sharpen skills and employ the letterpress as a perfect modular system for stop-frame animation. Inspiration will come from Marcel Duchamp’s film, Anémic Cinéma, Bruno Munari’s useless machines, and, of course, Eadweard Muybridge.

See more at: http://www.penland.org/blog/2013/10/moving-pictures-animated-letterpress...

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