BookPresses

Newark, Delaware, USA · est. 2008

Lead Graffiti

Letterpress books, broadsides, and typography workshops set from metal and wood type, including experimental, collaborative, and politically engaged book-arts projects.

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About the press

Lead Graffiti is a letterpress studio and press in Newark, Delaware run by Ray Nichols and Jill Cypher. It makes limited-edition books, broadsides, and collaborative book-arts projects set from metal and wood type, and offers workshops. A 2022 broadside was selected for the Hamilton Wood Type Museum's New Impressions exhibition.

Notable titles

  • How Ink Writes Poetry

Recognition

  • Broadside 'Teleport' selected for the Hamilton Wood Type Museum's 2022 New Impressions exhibition

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