Freebie Bookmarks for the Raymond Carver Writing Festival. Edition of 600. Types cast at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry. I'm not sure what Dwiggins would think about the psychedelic-americana treatment to his Caravan 1287 Decorative border slide, but I like it. Raymond Carver Writing Festival is this weekend, May 17th and 18th. Clatskanie, Oregon. www.raymondcarverwritingfestival.org
Raymond Carver Writing Festival Poster
It's Raymond Carver Writing Festival time again. This weekend, May 17th and 18th. Clatskanie, Oregon. www.raymondcarverwritingfestival.org
12" x 18" Poster made from types cast at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry, and also some worn but loved wood and foundry type. The photo engraved magnesium halftone of Carver was recycled from last year’s poster. Also, we had fun with the "split fountain" background, though in reality the fountain wasn't used. "Split distributor roller." Doesn't quite roll off the tongue. Edition 300.
Raymond Carver Writing Festival Posters
No-Nonsense heavy-ink printing for the Raymond Carver Writing Festival. This poster incorporates some fresh type that happens to be some of the first type cast at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry's new location in Clatskanie.
A worker at a bookshop where one of these prints was posted commented that it looked like an old poster promoting a boxing match. Yes! I like it. Somehow this seems fitting for Carver's work.
The C.C. Stern Type Foundry is a co-sponsor of the Raymond Carver Writing Festival. Some of us foundry members will host “Parking Lot Poetry” in the Safeway parking lot alongside Highway 30 in Clatskanie at noon on Friday, May 19th. "Parking Lot Poetry" commemorates an impromptu poetry reading that Raymond Carver and his wife Tess Gallagher held at that same location back in 1984 during a visit back to his birthplace of Clatskanie.
The C.C. Stern Type Foundry crew will also be at the reception with a tiny press ready to help *you* print a writing festival keepsake created from type cast at the foundry. We hope to see you there.