Skeuomorph practicum student Isabel Braico has been developing instructional videos for the press as her project this semester—the 1st online is a guide to help folks find us—UIUC’s campus is big & our building is a little confusing, so hopefully this helps folks find our little bookish corner!

Chuffed to discover that my MRes diss student,Sophie Weinberg, has won the Women’s History Network’s 2025 MA Dissertation Prize for ‘The Matrilineal Printing House’! Here’s a project Sophie’s working on over at the Skeuomorph Press at Illinois—a letterpress poster of her diss title!

Champaign-Urbana folks: one week from today will be the 2nd talk in our “Media Necromancy” series—Jess Whyte (U Toronto Libraries) will present “What the Disk Remembers: Traces, Forensics, and Care in Media Recovery” When: 4/28 10-11am Where: CU Community FabLab Also: there will be snacks!

Sophie is now the Assistant Director of @skeuomorphpress.org as she works on her MSLIS at the iSchool—she’s a brilliant book historian & skilled printer to boot!

A little Friday pick-me-up, courtesy of the UIUC Campus Faculty Association and @skeuomorphpress.org. 🤖

Back on my bullshit, aka "this print wasn't busy enough the first time, I should make a 2-sheet version w/footnotes" featuring a way to finally use my "hormel rainshower of packaged meats" print block (original print was for @skeuomorphpress.org printswap last May, pic #3)

Got a better photo. The bottom layer is “ABOLISH ICE” with an ice cube cut, in blue—the middle layer is an adapted broadside that was hung in Boston following passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill, warning of “kidnappers,” the final red layer is the dates—1851 & 2016—& 175 for the years between

Adding the 3rd layer of these prints today—a bit of sobering metadata Two texts separated by 175 years of American history, but they rhyme

Stopped by @skeuomorphpress.org to check on the students running our Boneyard activities & 1. The linocut poster, designed by practicum student Rosario, is *incredible*. I want cuts of these animals setting type, printing, &c.!! 2. Even the adults loved practicum student Isabel’s typewriter races

I set our specific time today to go to 2 activities at the Boneyard Art Festival. Photo Embroidery and finally go to see the Fab Lab. Met a few grads and got to spread the word we have cartography on campus:). So much fun! @skeuomorphpress.org

Locals! Boneyard Arts Festival is this weekend! Lots to do at the FabLab tomorrow—back in @skeuomorphpress.org we'll be printing an incredible linocut poster designed by a practicum students, while another is running "typewriter races" for kids—she even made some awesome typewriter button prizes!

This morning @drtlwagner.bsky.social’s “Queering Information” class @ischoolui.bsky.social is here creating a collaborative class poster. So much fun with our new Vandercook 4T!

Today colleagues from the College Faculty Association are @skeuomorphpress.org this afternoon printing posters for next week’s talk “AI Is Not Inevitable” by Britt Paris—come to the talk to claim one! cfaillinois.org/2026/03/31/a...

Package from across el charco (el Atlántico)! With books from #HalfLetterPress #ObsoletePress, @skeuomorphpress.org, #EternaCadencia & @blattyrios.bsky.social 🤩 #BookWorm

I'm always thinking about @halperta.bsky.social's lineage activity and ways we can set visible reminders at work. I'm thrilled to have @skeuomorphpress.org and @wolfproofpress.com prints hanging in my cubicle. Love having the words of @megsmith.bsky.social and Le Guin on display with my books!

I’m excited about this upcoming talk sponsored by the Campus Faculty Association: "AI Is Not Inevitable" with Britt Paris We’ll be making some talk-related posters @skeuomorphpress.org with CFA members & they’ll be available at the event! cfaillinois.org/2026/03/31/a...

Vandercook guru @paulmoxon.bsky.social is @skeuomorphpress.org today to get our new (to us) 4T humming. So excited to have this machine running for our community!

So many goodies coming tomorrow to Skeuomorph!!

Announcing the 2nd talk in our new "Media Necromancy" speaker series! Tue 4/28 10-11am Jess Whyte—University of Toronto Libraries—will present "What the Disk Remembers: Traces, Forensics, & Care in Media Recovery" "the disk remembers things its donor may not have known they were donating" More at:

Ok, here’s a proof of the 2nd layer, which adapts a broadside published in April of 1854 to warn Black residents of Boston about slave-catchers in the city, following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act www.nps.gov/articles/000...

The most wonderfully chaotic day in BookLab is printing day @skeuomorphpress.org, but we did it! We printed an octavo on the hand press & a half-sheet quarto on the jobbing press—every student got to ink, manage paper, pull the hand press, & run the jobber—made 1 copy for everyone plus a few extras

In the inaugural “Media Necromancy” talk @skeuomorphpress.org, @drtlwagner.bsky.social asks “what does it mean to take seriously obsolescence as a fundamental part of queer archival work?”

I working on my slides for this and oscillating between the format of a media studies presentation and an information science presentation. The jury is still out on which side will win 👾📼🏳️‍🌈

In 1 week @drtlwagner.bsky.social will kick off our new "Media Necromancy" speaker series with “’As Usual You Have Produced Yet Another Installment Worthy of Archiving’: The Persistence of Obsolescence in Queer Information & Media Technologies" more at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/our-research...

Our workshop with @blountben.bsky.social last week was a blast—we still can’t believe everyone made 3 books in just one two hour workshop!

New internet sorts from Skylinr Type Foundry arrived, for all your URL/social media letterpress printing needs!

Skeuomorph’s spring semester 2026 public hours are set! We’ll be open Sundays 1-5, & Tuesdays & Wednesdays 5-9. If you have a project in mind or just want to experiment with our equipment and collections, come by during community hours to chat with our student assistants & get your hands inky!

Very happy to add this Le Guin quotation print from @skeuomorphpress.org to my prints about print collection!

My @skeuomorphpress.org copy of LeGuin's On Technology finally arrived yesterday and it's so beautiful. Going to be a centrepiece on my office bookshelves for sure

Then later in February @drtlwagner.bsky.social will kick off a new "Media Necromancy" speaker series—we’re still chatting with folks about ideas, but are hoping for 1-2 more talks in this series over the spring semester, with more next year skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/our-research...

In a few weeks Ben Blount will be leading a public workshop "Making an Artist’s Book"—& a private workshop to develop exhibit materials with the "Virality of Racial Terror" research group—more info & a registration link for the public workshop here: skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/making-an-ar...

Planning a semester @skeuomorphpress.org with adequate staffing & an actual budget is wild, after 3 years at Huskiana & 4 here of cobbling infrastructure together on the fly—we’ll have more community hours, some public workshops, & a new speaker series—I truly hope we can be an oasis in this moment

Register for our 1st event of the spring semester, a workshop with Ben Blount about making artist’s books—no experience required! skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/making-an-ar...

New @ursulakleguin.com print from @skeuomorphpress.org arrived

Spending a Saturday at YarnLab means I get to hang up my new @skeuomorphpress.org poster next to its predecessor poster, along with a @sheerspite.bsky.social sticker and other colorful goodness. #DHmakes

technology among the technology! tysm @skeuomorphpress.org!

Always love getting mail from @skeuomorphpress.org and @ryancordell.org !

@skeuomorphpress.org Exciting mail day! Gorgeous, and while I'm feeling a little grumpy about it getting ripped in transit, I'm also appreciating that that's part of the materiality of the print.

Finished 2nd gallery wall in @scholarslab.bsky.social's Text Aisle w/art by @kennedyprints.bsky.social ("Architecture is shelter for the soul / Proceed and be bold! Sambo Mockbee"), @skeuomorphpress.org, @b0rk.jvns.ca @omarieclaire.bsky.social @innerloop-press.bsky.social, VA bookarts students, me +

I think @skeuomorphpress.org *needs* one of these Commodore 64 Ultimate machines I can relive being 7yo & playing Alf on the Commodore the Army bought for my dad when he went to get his Master’s—after he graduated he didn’t know what to use a computer for & it went in my room www.commodore.net

Our inaugural speaker will be @drtlwagner.bsky.social on "The Persistence of Obsolescence in Queer Information & Media Technologies," showing how "obsolescence can serve as a generative tool to think about the past, present, & future of queer archives" skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/our-research...

Y’all take a moment with me to celebrate @divinetautology.bsky.social, an incredible colleague who helped make @skeuomorphpress.org what it is today—our program wouldn’t exist without her work these past 2 years—& if you need a community & arts focused librarian/museum professional—please hire her!

Finally this absolute beauty from @skeuomorphpress.org made it across the pond. The texture of the paper, the quality of the print, the colors, the weight, the smell - not to mention the content by @ursulakleguin.com - it’s a real inspiration.

We’re doing it, y’all! Starting this spring @skeuomorphpress.org will sponsor a "Media Necromancy" speaker series—each talk will "unearths what @alanyliu.bsky.social describes as 'the déjá vu haunting of new by old media'" Hoping for skeuomorphic talks about a range of time periods/locations/&c.+

The Illinois Luddite Society’s last project of the semester is a (badass) cover for a forthcoming course packet. Their guillotine cut has now joined @skeuomorphpress.org’s Lino library, where I suspect it will be popular

Yesterday @drtlwagner.bsky.social & I were brainstorming a new @skeuomorphpress.org speaker series—essentially each talk would unpack how a old medium is interwoven in the design/function/&c. of a newer medium—& one of their students suggested we call the series "Media Necromancy"—just *chef’s kiss*

I am so delighted to add my copy of "A Rant About Technology" written by my fave Ursula K Le Guin and printed by the amazing folks at @skeuomorphpress.org to my work library of books, zines, and decks about data and technology.

“That’s the neat thing about technologies. They’re what we can learn to do.” This letterpress edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “A Rant About #Technology” exceeded all my expectations. Thanks to @skeuomorphpress.org for making it available during their summer fundraising drive! #STS #scifi #booksky 🗃️📜

Now that I have made my donation, I share with you to continue to support this really impressive project at UICU

Very good mail day: @ryancordell.org @deliadraws.bsky.social & other @skeuomorphpress.org students' gorgeous handmade (book, letterpress, illustrations>lino) edition of Ursula K Le Guin's "A Rant about 'Technology'" #DHmakes Some poster versions from the book may still be available? (link in QT)