The Linotype Daily

We are pleased to announce the release of a boxed set of the entire first year of The Linotype Daily prints. As described here, The Linotype Daily is a typecasting and printing project which published a new print, cast on a Linotype and printed letterpress, every day from March 1st, 2019 to February 29th, 2020. The project continues today as The Linotype Occasionally.

“But while the threat to American democracy is real, I want to say as clearly as we can, we are not powerless in the face of these threats. We are not bystanders in this ongoing attack on democracy. “ — Joe Biden last night. #letter
So, was he planning to sell (or has he already sold) access to top secret nuclear technology to the Russians, the Saudis ($2b to Jared), or China? (And apologies, since the story broke I cannot get that song out of my head!) #letterpress #linotype #t
“You gotta assume the stuff trump keeps in his safe is pretty wild and also likely crimey.” — Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast #letterpress #linotype #typecasting #maralago #fbiraid #crimedoesnotpay #floridaman #cloggedtoilet #insulin
“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan…we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the dark ages.” -Admiral Willia
From the auuthoritrian Republican Party who stood still when their cult leader called dead U.S. soldiers in European cemeteries “suckers” and “losers”…. #letterpress #linotype #veterans #PACTAct #jonstewart #pettypoliti
“If there is no accountability for Jan 6 - for every part of this scheme - I fear that we will not overcome the ongoing threat to our democracy.” - Jan 6 Committee Co-chair Bennie Thompson #linotype #letterpress #radiotower #derelictionof
“When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir…. It is obvious today that America has
"With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent." — Justices Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor in their joint dissent. #lett
“The only reason I know to ask for a pardon is because you think you have committed a crime,” -Adam Kinzinger, calling out his fellow Republicans in jan 6 hearings today. #linotype #letterpress #jan6 #italygate #jewishspacelaser #pardon

The box, created in collaboration with Hope Bindery, is foil stamped in gold on a bright pink book cloth with a type slug mounted on the front. The box set contains 366 (it was a leap year!) letterpress prints documenting world, national, and often personal news and reflections of the artist. The collection serves as a time capsule in ink on archival paper, and a record of the daily creative output of one person trying to cope with the events of that tumultuous year. It is a commentary on our Information Age using the very tool that got it started. The boxed Linotype Daily is available in an edition of 40 signed and numbered copies for $4000.

You can support the project and subscribe to receive printed copies hot off the press or in a monthly bundle via Patreon, or purchase individual prints from our web store. To read more about the project here in Art in Print magazine, or listen to a Rhode Island Public Radio broadcast.

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About the Artist

Dan Wood is an artist and printer living in Providence, Rhode Island. After briefly studying history at McGill University, he received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994, where he is now a Senor Critic in Printmaking. His printing education continued outside of the classroom, where he worked as an offset lithographic press operator in commercial print shops from Washington, D.C. to  Providence, Rhode Island. He established Garbaszawa Press in 1994, and re-inaugurated it as DWRI Letterpress in 2002, working collaboratively with other artists, designers, local businesses, non-profits, and others looking for fine letterpress printing. He is currently serving as an Art and City Life Commissioner for the City of Providence, teaching, making prints, and running his shop. His work can be found in private and public collections, including The Museum of Fine Art Boston, The RISD Museum, The New York Public Library, among others.  A strong believer in the community-building element of art making, he has spent much of the last three years casting type documenting our strange times via The Linotype Daily.