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Emily F Brooks
@emilyfbrooks.bsky.social
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Makeademic. PhD English/ Digital Humanities who loves pop culture, paper engineering, physical computing, and digital fabrication. she/her
http://emilyfbrooks.com
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Seen at @virginiabookarts.bsky.social, Liz Schneiders & students' printing using just tetrapaks (eg broth & oat milks cartons!) & tiny plastic Sizzix craft/scrapbooker presses or etching presses #DHmakes
Photo of a red brick wall displaying a 4 x 4 grid of small (about 3" square) aqua and black art prints of trees, sea creatures, and more, under a title print that says "TetraPak Prints" Photo of a red brick wall displaying a long strip of material printed in aqua and black with the backwards words "TetraPak Prints"; a tab at the bottom of the strip says "LIFT to see back of printing plate" Photo of a red brick wall displaying a long strip of material printed in aqua and black with the backwards words "TetraPak Prints"; a tab at the bottom of the strip says "LIFT to see back of printing plate" and has been lifted to show the back of that printing plate is just a strip of chicken broth carton material Photo of an exhibit label on a red brick wall. It says "Tetra Pak Printmaking The following sampling of prints were made by visitors to our Book Arts Demonstration Day held during the Virginia Festival of the Book in March of 2025. We made printing plates cut out of Tetra Pak, a material commonly used for packaging food such as broth, oat milk, soups and more. Guests were invited to "draw" on a piece of Tetra Pak with a pointed awl. Each plate was then inked, wiped clean of excess ink, and run through a small etching press with a dampened sheet of watercolor paper to produce a print. Tetra Pak printing has become quite popular as a fast, affordable and eco-friendly method of printmaking. Look for classes and demos at Virginia Book Arts in the coming year."
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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whitneytrettien.bsky.social
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
I got one of the wood lasercut blocks of @queermedieval.bsky.social's to print better: "We can be soft & brave / silly & right" and "hope comes from us" #DHmakes
Photo of a letterpress print on cream paper with bright green ink. It says "we can be / SOFT & BRAVE / SiLLY & RIGHT" over an image printed using a lasercut wood block made from @queermedieval.bsky.social's drawing of the Portland Frog standing up to evil government agents. Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with bright green ink. It says "HOPE comes from us." over an image printed using a lasercut wood block made from @queermedieval.bsky.social's drawing of the Portland Frog standing up to evil government agents. Photo of a letterpress press bed with a print at one end on white paper with bright green ink. It says "HOPE comes from us." over an image printed using a lasercut wood block made from @queermedieval.bsky.social's drawing of the Portland Frog standing up to evil government agents. At the other end of the press you can see the rollers and wood type that made the print inked in green. Closeup photo of a letterpress print on cream paper with bright green ink. It shows an image printed using a lasercut wood block made from @queermedieval.bsky.social's drawing of the Portland Frog standing up to evil government agents.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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ellenforget.bsky.social
The Bruce Peel special collections library at UAlberta recently acquired a Bible in moon, and I'm so excited—you might even say that I'm over the moon about it.

It's a 1960s reproduction of a mid-1800s volume (moon was invented in the 1840s). Unfortunately. It's only volume 1 (of 3).
Title page of the moon bible, which is embossed in the moon tactile code. It says that it is volume one of three and that it was published by the Moon Society, a branch of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in London. The opening page in the moon bible, which just says "moon" repeatedly across the whole page, embossed in the moon tactile code. A close-up of the interior spine and margin on a page, which shows the running head that is embossed vertically in the inside margin rather than at the top of the page. The page is embossed in the moon tactile code. A close-up of the outside margin and top right corner of a recto page, which shows a page number in the very top corner. It also shows parantheses-like markers at the edge of the page, which are used to guide the finger as you read lines back-and-forth. The page is embossed in the moon tactile code.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Printed a version of this for nonbookmaker folks ("our community says" instead of "bookmakers & binders say"), with a neon green border under black ink:
Photo of a letterpress print made with wood and lead type on white paper, and a black ink overlaid on neon green so just an edge of green showed around the black. It says "Our community says / all you fascists bound to lose / Justice hinges on us gathering / bind us together / leave no one behind". The word "hinges" is set diagonally off the word "justice" to look like it's hinging Photo of a letterpress print made with wood and lead type on white paper, and a black ink overlaid on neon green so just an edge of green showed around the black. It says "Our community says / all you fascists bound to lose / Justice hinges on us gathering / bind us together / leave no one behind". The word "hinges" is set diagonally off the word "justice" to look like it's hinging. The green edging is narrower on this print than on the print in the previous photo.
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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sarahpyke.bsky.social
Last week I posted that the image on the left was one of the single greatest pages in twentieth century literature, and I stand by that! But look what I noticed for the very first time: Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are closes with an almost-identical page layout, to wildly different ends
A white page which says 'Goodnight nobody' at the bottom in black type. From Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon (1947), illustrated by Clement Hurd. Final double-page spread from Maurice Sendak's 1963 picture book Where the Wild Things Are. It's completely blank, apart from 'and it was still hot.' in black type in the lower left corner of the verso
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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ryancordell.org
Seems like every week I walk in to find new messaging from our local Luddite Society drying on the racks @skeuomorphpress.org
A letterpress poster in wood type reading: LUDDITES RESIST OBNOXIOUS TECHNOLOGY
November 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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ryancordell.org
Job alert!

@ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year

Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
. @josefbeery.bsky.social talks how he ended up designing the BookBeetle, a tabletop Common Press (the kind of press used to print the Declaration of Independence) replica screw press. Wanted to focus on teaching K-12 classrooms about printing history+creativity, so designed for safety+accessibility
BOOKBEETLE BookBeetle Desktop Letterpress
Selling the BookBeetle desktop printing press for letterpress, linoleum cuts, and wedding invitations.
www.bookbeetlepress.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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gvogeler.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
You have an PhD in #digitalhumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #postdoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #dhgraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at […]
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hcommons.social
November 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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lynnemthomas.com
Interested in coming to Champaign-Urbana and using the collections at @illinoisrbml.bsky.social ? We have a $3k visiting scholar program for that! Applications accepted beginning Nov 17. www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/research...
Velde Visiting Scholar Program – Rare Book and Manuscript Library – U of I Library
www.library.illinois.edu
November 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Letterpressy responses to AI hype/harm: @markalanmattes.bsky.social's new series (QT'd); got @starshapedpress.bsky.social's "made with human intelligence" postcard club print this past week (bsky.app/profile/star...) & @umdbooklab.bsky.social's "small language models made here" back in May #DHmakes
Photo of a framed letterpress print in silver ink on black paper that says "small language models made here (a plaintext press publication from BookLab at UMD" Artist's photo of Starshaped Press' "made with human intelligence" ornate typography postcard
November 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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markalanmattes.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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wolfhumanities.bsky.social
Applications for our 2026–2027 Postdoctoral Fellowships on the theme of "Practice" are due this Sunday, November 2.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/postdoc
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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jsench.bsky.social
This morning at the press.
An iron frame printing press in an academic building with a just printed broadside on it. A broadside on white paper and blue type that reads “MOVABLE TYPE NOT AI HYPE!” A pile of drying letterpress broadsides. They read MOVABLE TYPE NOT AI HYPE
October 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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alexwermercolan.bsky.social
ICYMI for Banned Books week SaraGrace Stefan and I shared @us.theconversation.com our analysis of cover images for every book banned in public schools and libraries in the 2021-2022 school year. Thanks to @mellon.org for their support, and to co-PI @lbmcgrath.bsky.social, and all our student workers
October 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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plach.bsky.social
Further proof that the best tech in our #DigitalHumanities Center = our writable tables. Here’s a student planning their StoryMap
A white female student uses purple and pink dry erase markers to storyboard her mapping project. Her laptop sits on the table displaying the project assignment and her notes are on her phone in her lap
October 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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50501movement.bsky.social
Incredible artwork by @4nikkolas.bsky.social.
Original artwork that mimics the famous raising of the flag on Iwo Jima, with the marines replaced by protesters in inflatable animal costumes. The Statue of Liberty and a city landscape are in the background.
October 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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karl-jacoby.bsky.social
Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
October 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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elikaortega.bsky.social
New review of Binding Media out in pre-print!

"Ortega’s terminology – “binding media” – is a useful phrase that should enter the critical lexicon. It gives us the means through which to consider these hybrid media forms, not as “just” paratextual objects, but as core parts of distributed books."
October 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
I started the DH Slack 10 years ago today 🎉 3.8k legit DHer/DH-interested folks joined; we became a regular venue for asking questions & sharing opportunities+research; usually have several hundred folks active/week (more during DH conferences); 160k+ posts. Anyone curious about DH can join:
Digital Humanities Slack!
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October 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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ryancordell.org
I love the risograph-printed buttons one of @skeuomorphpress.org’s practicum students made for our tabling events this semester!
A series of buttons printed in blue and pink risograph ink depicting presses, rollers, composing sticks, and other equipment with phrases such as “just roll with it” “I do not fear the ink” & “compose yourself”
October 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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quinnanya.me
I don't have a printing press, but I do have access to a laser cutter and supplies for pendants and keychains. #DHmakes 🐸
A row of Miles's Frog of Portland images cut in a circle out of plywood on a laser cutter. A keychain and pendant of the Frog of Portland image.
October 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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ryancordell.org
Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.
A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads: VIVE LA RIBBITSTANCE
October 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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philnel.bsky.social
Harold and the Purple Crayon is a manifesto for human creativity disguised as a children's book. I wrote about it.
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Turn off AI. Pick up a crayon.
Google Gemini offers “a new way to bring your imagination to life.” Adobe Firefly promises “The ultimate creative AI solution.” And Craiyon invites you to “Create AI Art.” Don't believe the tech hype.
blog.oup.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM