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)

This linocut that my colleague made for tomorrow’s Yiddish printing event @skeuomorphpress.org looks absolutely incredible

I’m pretty pleased by this riff on a @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social / @umdbooklab.bsky.social print I worked up for my “Writing with Robots” class’ visit to @skeuomorphpress.org today

Now that our edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Rant About 'Technology'" is (finally!) printed, bound, packed, & with campus mail, on its way to folks, we’re making approximately 60 of the internal poster available separately If you’d like to claim one see the order form at forms.gle/BKJQWSmcnuq8...

This past weekend Skeuomorph GA @divinetautology.bsky.social led a workshop for kids & parents as part of the "Spurlock Sundays" series in local museums & cultural orgs—participants drew designs & then overprinted them—the results are delightful!

As always seems to be true @skeuomorphpress.org, the most recent tech is hardest to maintain We love this 90s-era Brother typewriter—it’s lightweight, super portable, clear impression—but its ink comes in proprietary cartridges that are just gone—ribbon is easy to find for our older machines

Seems like every week I walk in to find new messaging from our local Luddite Society drying on the racks @skeuomorphpress.org

Maybe it’s the Luddite Society that’s been printing @skeuomorphpress.org all this semester—or maybe it’s the lesson on Luddism I’m planning for my undergrads tomorrow—or maybe it’s the #dhmakes discussion we’ll be having in my grad "Intro to DH" class, also tomorrow BUT +

Two weeks from now at Skeuomorph. Come learn more about the history of Yiddish print in the US & make some cool prints!

Today @skeuomorphpress.org is out tabling & live printing at the Banned Books Week popup sponsored by the cultural houses on campus!

It's a unicorn job for this printer-scholar and I am beyond excited to be continuing the work I did at @skeuomorphpress.org with @ryancordell.org! I'd love it if folks helped me celebrate by making a donation to support KLP's programing: give.uky.edu/campaigns/47... 2/2

In today’s mail: two beautiful new mould & deckle sets from The Papertrail for hand paper making at Skeuomorph. One makes 8.5x11” sheets & the other 12x18”, we can make sheets for posters or large book impositions. Looking forward to trying them out in upcoming workshops & classes!

You’d better be careful @sarahebull.bsky.social this is precisely how @skeuomorphpress.org started

Realizing that our Le Guin prints offer a really dramatic example I can use when explaining that letterpress ink is semi-transparent. Under the solid black letters you can see the lines of the underprint design

Love the prints @divinetautology.bsky.social made with students getting oriented @skeuomorphpress.org last night—they learned to set type, print, & cleanup by printing over scrap prints or hand-drawn backgrounds

We welcomed a Social Work class on the social impacts of technology @skeuomorphpress.org this afternoon. Spent time with our typewriters, word processors, & vintage computers talking about textual technology transitions & the relationships between media tech & expression

Middle-schoolers in the FabLab’s printmaking summer camps designed cards using our risograph machine & prints using P22’s modular printing Blox—we’re bowled over by their results! dry-inc.com/products/p22...

The iSchool’s incredible facilities director made space in a loading dock where I can work on the press—cleaning, replacing rollers, etc. When it’s ready, we’ll replace the less-fancy Vandercook @skeuomorphpress.org with this one (we just don’t have room for 2)p

Here’s what we’re printing at the press—find out how to order one and support our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...

Friends, please share! Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...

First up in the Society of Early Americanists joint fundraiser are the protest posters of @ryancordell.org - Ryan directs @skeuomorphpress.org an experiential studio for research and teaching in book and information arts that is housed in the @Champaign-Urbana Community FabLab....

Over the next few weeks I will finally have the bandwidth to work on @skeuomorphpress.org’s numbered edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “A Rant About ‘Technology’” So today I’m in the press experimenting with ink/paper combos for the front covers Watch this space for fundraiser info—coming ver soon!

We’ve been running low on wall space @skeuomorphpress.org for awhile, so while course prepping this weekend I decided to use our vertical space—now we have prints up into the rafters!

Had a fantastic time at @skeuomorphpress.org 's #buildingbooklabs25! It was truly humbling to learn from master printmakers and digital humanities enthusiasts like @josefbeery.bsky.social, @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social and many others. I cannot wait to apply everything I have learned to my work!

Feeling grateful for getting to attend #BuildingBookLabs25. In an absolutely insane time for arts, humanities, and libraries alike my work at @skeuomorphpress.org has been a vital outlet. Getting to see the incredible work by Booklabs and artists across the country shows— we’re not going anywhere!