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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press
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Letterpress nerd, fledgling typefoundry, cats. Also probably mushrooms. Find my work at bowerbox.com, buy some of my type and print things with it! Subscribe to my niche newsletter about typecasting: americantypecastingfellowship.org
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 18h
Thanks! It's such an exciting project!
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 19h
Oh yeah, I know what I'm watching tonight!
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 3d
I thought so, I digitized it for him :)
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 3d
Or, ever? Totally why i haven't ever cleaned my windows
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 4d
Ooh that border!
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 6d
This year's carved giant pumpkin! I've been carving these at Ladew Gardens since 2019 and it's always exciting to create a woodcut style image on a huge squash. They glow so beautifully when lit from the inside. #giantpumpkin #gardenglow
A giant pumpkin, lot up from inside and with a cute jumping fox carved into the front in a woodcut style
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 7d
I found out the same thing the same way. So my next order was from American Artisan Inks, no visible religious icons or anything, just a guy very interested in ink as far as I can tell
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 9d
A most helpful beast.
A fluffy gray cat on a blanket, sleeping, in front of piles of unfolded and folded cards.
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 13d
It was over 80°F on Monday- and now we have a frost warning. Guess I'll have to cover up the Indigo tonight.
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 13d
So very neat to see that someone I made a logo for 15 years ago has won a MacArthur Genius ward. He was doing important work back then too. Congrats Nab!
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 13d
6k! Woof
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 13d
Is that dramatically more than it's been in the past? Or is this a new show?
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 13d
HOLY BALLS that's insane. I don't think I even have that much stock to sell!
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 14d
I have been ignoring the mulberry that's sneaking up on the power line and I know that's going to come back and bite me.
Can you sell the firewood from it?
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 14d
Good luck with both of those things!
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 15d
How do I block just these shitty ads from the feed? I still want to see the actual writing, but not 15 prime day ads every hour
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 17d
Happy birthday? I was that several weeks ago!
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 18d
Thanks!
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 18d
Ten years ago I quit my job in a digital print shop and dove into running my own analog print shop full time. Overall, it's been 17 years of running Bowerbox Press. Still feels good! #letterpress
A smiling woman with short hair standing in a crowded letterpress print shop, holding up pieces of wood type that say 10
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 21d
Doing my best, with a handful of others 🥲
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 22d
Typecasting should be on the list! Trying to save it over here in the US, there are a few casters left in the UK but not many
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 22d
Beautiful and powerful work by @springtidepress.bsky.social
#letterpress
springtidepress.bsky.social Springtide Press @springtidepress.bsky.social · 22d
Since January I’ve been printing a monthly protest poster utilizing and documenting the wood type in my collection. The barrage of news is unrelenting, but for August I wanted to focus on the continuing and horrifying genocide in Gaza.
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 22d
I love the ghost print on PEACE. And I hope we will get some soon.
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 22d
Uhoh.
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 25d
They are a vital *swat* part *swat of the *swat* GODDAM *SWAT* ECOSYSTEM *SWAT SWAT SWAT*
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