Lovely art+zines from Kansas ✉️: "Looming" critical tech, human-flourishing-as-goal zine (www.loomingthezine.com), including zine originals to scan for Zine Bakery redistro. The postcard’s non-metallic inks are homemade from blueberry, sumac, lilac, walnut, oak gall, +soda/irons

what if... not just a printing press, but a Big Press?? (typehound agrees)

Thinking about different framings of "digital+experimental research" as about the nature of new things; vs including existing things long gatekept from being part of our methods (as measured by $ austerity, conferences, jobs), or maintaining focus on what a new thing might allow for human thriving +

"But that isn't digital" DH has a thriving community of folks who investigate and/or make digitally not bc "new" but bc opportunities for social justice, rejecting gatekeeping what counts as scholarly method+contribution, real-time scholarly sharing; "technology" includes non-& pre-digital solutions

A friendly community for folks doing craft, art, analog making! Digital humanities used to highlight digital making (coding etc) fine—but other forms not so much (different now than some years back 👍🎨) thus #DHmakes as a *non-digital-only* hashtag, events, more: literaturegeek.com/2025/12/31/w...

In case it’s helpful to that cause: buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/an-illustr...

#DHMakes yesterday I started to wrote the nodes legend on the side of the piece with the help of my assistant

I’m equally proud of the back, which shows how my technique is improving. In the first 2 projects I used masking tape to secure many of the stitches. I haven’t needed extra support this time. I’m better at judging thread lengths & I figured out a better way to secure stitches, esp ones w beads

And here it is, ready for display at next week’s showcase. This is my sleep/insomnia from Jan 1-May 1, 2026. Thread colors are amounts of sleep and beads are types of wakefulness. #DHmakes

Some more experimentation with paste paper techniques - and for #PrintDayInMay and the #DHPrints theme I'm going back to everyone's first printmaking experience, the glorious potato. Starch paste & acrylic on a nonporous ground.

When I can finally get back to the laser, I really want to turn this into a proper letterpress print. The roses are a very old design of mine, I've cut a lot of them for jewellery, but never yet for a printer's ornament. #DHPrints #DHMakes

A poster for today - Bread & Roses, free to download and share. www.patreon.com/posts/first-...

It is a humble contribution to #DHprints but I was happy that at least a couple of the tie-dye shirts got a print in, and the cleanup was extensive but beautiful. #DHmakes

All the #DHprints posts look like so much fun, I'm 3d printing some leopard stamps and have decided printing is going to be the craft activity at the 8-year-old's birthday sleepover tonight. Kid: What about goodie bags? Me: You're all going to make things. 😈 Hazards of #DHmakes parenting.

How about I post the photo? 🤣 I only had one little accident with a finger and the cutter and almost no ink on my hands. A win.

Still waiting on some supplies, but for this Print Day I’m very excited about my tiny corner printing set up starting to come together! Plus, a hint for the first project I’m working on. #DHprints

Back in the print shop! Credit card from M (1931), laser cut on bamboo (with help from @literaturegeek.bsky.social) and printed on the Vandercook.

My #DHPrints cyanotypes are... a useful proof of concept! My contact prints of 127 film negatives worked, but need more careful arrangement and exposure next time. My son's print of household stuff came out really cool, the way light interacted with objects created an unexpected illusion of depth!

👀 yesterday's #DHprints & #DHmakes for lovely craft+art by @markalanmattes.bsky.social @sararribas.bsky.social @divinetautology.bsky.social @afamiglietti.bsky.social @jenniferisasi.bsky.social @shane.logoff.website @eithin.bsky.social @plach.bsky.social @quinnanya.me (& me). Ty for sharing joy 🎨!

ok who has been printing with cheetos instead of ink in here ??? 🦺

My other #DHPrints day activity was getting my @wolfproofpress.com prints by @literaturegeek.bsky.social framed up!

Spent time w/good print friends at the printshop; added an electric blue layer to the California Pizza Typecase print; & played around w/layout for the cheese, sausage, and ornaments (tiny mice looking at the cheese, tiny cowpokes, etc.) layers. Still more to print at a future time. #DHprints

More #DHprints!

I dropped a few in the store if you'd like one: hotbrownpress.etsy.com/listing/4497...

My cyanotype paper is drying in the darkest spot I could find in the basement. Should be ready for #DHPrints. It's my first time doing this and I am using a slightly dodgy kit off that major-name internet store we all know better than to use. Will this be a #DHMakes or a #DHtries? Stay tuned!

A fe(a)stschrift in honor of @markalanmattes.bsky.social's QT'd burgerpress theory & praxis 🍔🎨 #DHprints (see QT for link to his print store too)

More versions (1 layered on text I started in January that is no longer what I want to say) #DHprints

(These are going into my store's free pile when I have chance to update those options in the next couple days)

Good morning! We can have good things if we merely expect people who run for office to perform baseline job responsibilities #DHprints @printdayinmay.bsky.social

Morning quick #DHprints: it me

Well, let's get this virtual smorgasbord rockin' folks - A Burger of Sorts! Nom nom nom... #DHprints #DHmakes #letterpress #printmaking @printdayinmay.bsky.social

California Pizza (Kitchen | Printz) lasercut cherry block printed well. Now to figure out the part I haven't yet; I cut cheese-texture blocks to fit the typecase cells for the letters in "pizza pie", but unsure after that–letters & dingbats in the other cells? #DHprints

If you’d like to print (or make other art) on a theme today (5/2): tinyurl.com/DHprints for a food-related option. Don’t need to finish something, just share whatever aspect you work on today (planning, prepping, making, ???) & you might get something cool in the mail if you do? #DHprints #DHmakes +

Rolling off @vabookarts.bsky.social Steering Committee as annual term ends; continuing as Type Librarian (eg building a physically accessible & fancy-feature database, online gallery, history of community use of our unusually big collection of type). 💜 to all contributing to arts infrastructure!

It’s international Print Day in May! (@printdayinmay.bsky.social) Folks around the world are sharing various kinds of printmaking (not just #letterpress); I’ll share my work from the @vabookarts.bsky.social printshop throughout the day today. #DHprints for all the printing progress pics today.

New BookLab student poster just dropped #SickAFCreatures

I printed letterpress on fabric for the 1st time, using wood type. (Also shown: paper print versions, as I didn't have many squares of fabric with a color the orange ink would be visible against, but that was what I was using for other work on the press)

A May Day trip to the Fiber + Fabric Craft Festival seems like the perfect occasion for my @wolfproofpress.com shirt. S/o to @literaturegeek.bsky.social and #dhmakes

Got my 19" wide typecase block to print (taking a day's break before restarting makeready helped me figure out how to get the whole board to print evenly vs its slight warping) #DHmakes

Yeah the vibes could not be more rancid at your local educational institution and I simply cannot impress upon you enough that they are self-immolating because the assets (buildings and land and infrastructure) are desirable to people who do not give a single shit about learning

Cool new letterpress posters (and stickers!) from @wolfproofpress.com

I think it's 1 of the things that's contributed the most to my shared governance burnout. That and being caught between two realities—the lived experiences of faculty/staff being asked to do more with less, in contrast to the "data informed" messages that admin share that seek to tell a v diff story

Our brilliant Praxis Fellows presenting today about their year with us here @scholarslab.bsky.social.

the burger is on the griddle #dhmakes #letterpress

I got started growing plants using things that could grow & survive inside in clear mason jars of (periodically changed) water, which avoided needing to deal w/soil early on & let me watch the growing roots. (I now have lots of outdoor plants!)

One version of the print included my printing actual seeds: the 1st seeds I'd "made myself", gathered from the 1st flowers I'd ever grown from seed; another uses printed rice. Cut out printed type, glued seeds, printed as overlay; versions w/o too store.wolfproofpress.com/product/hydroponics-of-care

ICYMI "I want a hydroponics of care" 🚰🫙🌱 builds on "They tried to bury us / they didn't know we were seeds" (origin: 1978 Christianopoulos poem, Mexico, Palestine, Ukraine protests); & the call to give folks, especially Black trans women, their flowers (credit, applause, love) while alive to hear +

#DHmakes <3s retro tech + textiles:

11011 = 27 days until Critical Making: Enchanted Things Come learn how to make enchanted things with physical computing, digital fabrication, letterpress, and more! *Early registration pricing ends tomorrow @ midnight* @pricelab.bsky.social ~Dream Lab~ #DHMakes web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/cr...

Next Sat 5/2 is Print Day! tinyurl.com/dhprints if you want to participate in a theme for your printing that day. If you do (OR if you share some *nonprint* method of nondigital art/craft/making work to #DHmakes that day 💜) I might mail folks a sticker, postcard, or... letterpress'd bandana?