Letterpress cards printed with a red heart pierced by an arrow
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Risograph & Letterpress

One of a kind, made at Stanford’s Community Print Shop.

Stanford has a community print shop that recently unearthed a risograph printer and a letterpress from a storage unit in Fremont. Risograph printing is a stencil-based method: each color is its own stencil, and you layer translucent inks on top of one another, one pass at a time. For the letterpress, you hand-set type and pull each impression by hand. On both letterpress and riso, no two prints are ever identical.

Risograph print reading LIFE IS SHORT, ART IS LONG over a pink-to-orange gradient
A two-color risograph animal portrait in red and blueA white-on-black print of the Sutro Baths ruins with graffiti lettering
Risograph print of a pink disco ball over a black-and-white stadium crowd
Blue and orange risograph collage with the word DADDY and portraitsRisograph prints and pin-back buttons spread across a tableBlue risograph of San Francisco rowhouses beneath a hill, captioned Every hill a novel
Green, red, and yellow risograph of a bearded profile over marbled lines
Letterpress playing cards with large numerals and illustrated figuresA hand holding risograph prints of moons and planets in gold and silver on black

I love how digital graphic design translates onto the riso. For both mediums, you’re never really sure how it’s going to turn out until that first pass. Save misprints for test paper!

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