30 Strange Spoons: Measuring an Unhomed Time is a new artist’s book created in collaboration with acclaimed Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran, author of How to Lose Your Country: the 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism, Together: A Manifesto Against a Heartless World, and the new Nation of Strangers(2026).

The book combines new writing by Ece with short excerpts from Nation of Strangers interspersed with letterpress images of the spoons she has been stealing during her a decade in exile. As Ece puts it, “These stolen coffee spoons are proof of my life, evidence that I have lived the last ten years. They are also the timeline for the mutating homeless self from a state of being shrunken with fear to a self that learns how to begin living after being unhomed.” Ece’s writing runs along the bottom of each page accompanied by silhouettes of the 30 spoons, printed in a lightly tinted varnish, creating a visual exploration of “our unhomed time” in a physical material manifestation.

The book is 48 pages in accordion format, measuring 4 1/2” x 7” (11.5×17.78cm), unfoldsing to 18 feet when fully extended. All of the text and images are letterpress printed in two passes on Gmund Cotton New Grey text, with a hot-foil stamped cover on Gmund Colors Stone, a letterpress printed title wrap on Lokta hand-made paper, and is encased in a protective foil-stamped enclosure. Books are bound and available for shipping or pickup in Providence, Rhode Island.

NOTE: International shipping is available! US and Canadian orders can be made below, for international orders please reach out to dan@dwriletterpress.net with your location and an adjusted shipping cost will be sent. Copies are also available for pickup in Rome, Italy, along with the Italian translation of Nation of Strangers (Straineri Come Te ) at Betterpress Studio, via Portuense 189, Roma.

Now available in 6 volumes (2024 and 2025 JUST released!), each individual volume collects a year of the Linotype Occasionally project. Hardbound in an accordion book format, each volume contains all of the prints from that year. Volume I begins March 1st, 2020 as that was the end of daily production. Each book begins with a gold foil stamped title page, is enclosed in a bright pink hard cover case, contained in a bright pink 9 1/2” x 1” x 12 1/2” slip case, with a signed and numbered colophon in an edition of 50 copies. Opens flat for display 12 1/2” x 20” up to 50’ wide.

You can see the prints for each annual collection here.

Type sample collection of DWRI's Ludlow typefaces available for casting (as of Fall 2015, with updated sheet of newly acquired matrices). Each page contains a full alphabet and one or two line specimens of each available size and style of type, set to our favorite song lyrics, essays, writings, and other tidbits of the English language from throughout the nineteenth to twenty-first century! That means Karl Marx, Taylor Swift, multiple entries from The Clash, and more.... 22 pages, hand-sewn in a stab-stitch binding, with letterpress cover.

A tri-fold artists book by Dan Wood documenting the longest urinal in the world, built every year for the New York City Marathon until the mid-2000’s. Printed in a signed and numbered edition of 500 copies via offset lithography and letterpress, with a linotype cast colophon on back, and letterpress printed envelope and enclosure. 6” x 9”, 9” x 18” when open flat.

A pocket-sized 2021 Lunar Calendar cast on a Linotype and printed letterpress in instant book format, with passing thoughts on the Moon, the Earth, and their long social distancing dance. Two colors plus hot foil on front, with a single color metal cut with type on back, folds to 3 1/2” x 5”.