Skeuomorph Press & BookLab
@skeuomorphpress.org
An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
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This linocut that my colleague made for tomorrow’s Yiddish printing event @skeuomorphpress.org looks absolutely incredible
November 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This linocut that my colleague made for tomorrow’s Yiddish printing event @skeuomorphpress.org looks absolutely incredible
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I’m pretty pleased by this riff on a @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social / @umdbooklab.bsky.social print I worked up for my “Writing with Robots” class’ visit to @skeuomorphpress.org today
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I’m pretty pleased by this riff on a @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social / @umdbooklab.bsky.social print I worked up for my “Writing with Robots” class’ visit to @skeuomorphpress.org today
Now that our edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Rant About 'Technology'" is (finally!) printed, bound, packed, & with campus mail, on its way to folks, we’re making approximately 60 of the internal poster available separately
If you’d like to claim one see the order form at forms.gle/BKJQWSmcnuq8...
If you’d like to claim one see the order form at forms.gle/BKJQWSmcnuq8...
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Now that our edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Rant About 'Technology'" is (finally!) printed, bound, packed, & with campus mail, on its way to folks, we’re making approximately 60 of the internal poster available separately
If you’d like to claim one see the order form at forms.gle/BKJQWSmcnuq8...
If you’d like to claim one see the order form at forms.gle/BKJQWSmcnuq8...
This past weekend Skeuomorph GA @divinetautology.bsky.social led a workshop for kids & parents as part of the "Spurlock Sundays" series in local museums & cultural orgs—participants drew designs & then overprinted them—the results are delightful!
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This past weekend Skeuomorph GA @divinetautology.bsky.social led a workshop for kids & parents as part of the "Spurlock Sundays" series in local museums & cultural orgs—participants drew designs & then overprinted them—the results are delightful!
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As always seems to be true @skeuomorphpress.org, the most recent tech is hardest to maintain
We love this 90s-era Brother typewriter—it’s lightweight, super portable, clear impression—but its ink comes in proprietary cartridges that are just gone—ribbon is easy to find for our older machines
We love this 90s-era Brother typewriter—it’s lightweight, super portable, clear impression—but its ink comes in proprietary cartridges that are just gone—ribbon is easy to find for our older machines
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
As always seems to be true @skeuomorphpress.org, the most recent tech is hardest to maintain
We love this 90s-era Brother typewriter—it’s lightweight, super portable, clear impression—but its ink comes in proprietary cartridges that are just gone—ribbon is easy to find for our older machines
We love this 90s-era Brother typewriter—it’s lightweight, super portable, clear impression—but its ink comes in proprietary cartridges that are just gone—ribbon is easy to find for our older machines
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Seems like every week I walk in to find new messaging from our local Luddite Society drying on the racks @skeuomorphpress.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Seems like every week I walk in to find new messaging from our local Luddite Society drying on the racks @skeuomorphpress.org
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Maybe it’s the Luddite Society that’s been printing @skeuomorphpress.org all this semester—or maybe it’s the lesson on Luddism I’m planning for my undergrads tomorrow—or maybe it’s the #dhmakes discussion we’ll be having in my grad "Intro to DH" class, also tomorrow BUT +
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Maybe it’s the Luddite Society that’s been printing @skeuomorphpress.org all this semester—or maybe it’s the lesson on Luddism I’m planning for my undergrads tomorrow—or maybe it’s the #dhmakes discussion we’ll be having in my grad "Intro to DH" class, also tomorrow BUT +
Two weeks from now at Skeuomorph. Come learn more about the history of Yiddish print in the US & make some cool prints!
October 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Two weeks from now at Skeuomorph. Come learn more about the history of Yiddish print in the US & make some cool prints!
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Today @skeuomorphpress.org is out tabling & live printing at the Banned Books Week popup sponsored by the cultural houses on campus!
October 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Today @skeuomorphpress.org is out tabling & live printing at the Banned Books Week popup sponsored by the cultural houses on campus!
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It's a unicorn job for this printer-scholar and I am beyond excited to be continuing the work I did at @skeuomorphpress.org with @ryancordell.org! I'd love it if folks helped me celebrate by making a donation to support KLP's programing: give.uky.edu/campaigns/47...
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September 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
It's a unicorn job for this printer-scholar and I am beyond excited to be continuing the work I did at @skeuomorphpress.org with @ryancordell.org! I'd love it if folks helped me celebrate by making a donation to support KLP's programing: give.uky.edu/campaigns/47...
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In today’s mail: two beautiful new mould & deckle sets from The Papertrail for hand paper making at Skeuomorph. One makes 8.5x11” sheets & the other 12x18”, we can make sheets for posters or large book impositions. Looking forward to trying them out in upcoming workshops & classes!
September 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
In today’s mail: two beautiful new mould & deckle sets from The Papertrail for hand paper making at Skeuomorph. One makes 8.5x11” sheets & the other 12x18”, we can make sheets for posters or large book impositions. Looking forward to trying them out in upcoming workshops & classes!
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You’d better be careful @sarahebull.bsky.social this is precisely how @skeuomorphpress.org started
I’m teaching my book history class across campus this semester, so my wonderful dept bought a giant steel work cart. This is going to make the whole mobile book lab thing so much easier! (Some of my colleagues also use material items, e.g. puppets, for teaching, so useful all around, I hope).
September 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
You’d better be careful @sarahebull.bsky.social this is precisely how @skeuomorphpress.org started
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Realizing that our Le Guin prints offer a really dramatic example I can use when explaining that letterpress ink is semi-transparent. Under the solid black letters you can see the lines of the underprint design
September 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Realizing that our Le Guin prints offer a really dramatic example I can use when explaining that letterpress ink is semi-transparent. Under the solid black letters you can see the lines of the underprint design
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Love the prints @divinetautology.bsky.social made with students getting oriented @skeuomorphpress.org last night—they learned to set type, print, & cleanup by printing over scrap prints or hand-drawn backgrounds
September 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Love the prints @divinetautology.bsky.social made with students getting oriented @skeuomorphpress.org last night—they learned to set type, print, & cleanup by printing over scrap prints or hand-drawn backgrounds
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We welcomed a Social Work class on the social impacts of technology @skeuomorphpress.org this afternoon. Spent time with our typewriters, word processors, & vintage computers talking about textual technology transitions & the relationships between media tech & expression
September 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
We welcomed a Social Work class on the social impacts of technology @skeuomorphpress.org this afternoon. Spent time with our typewriters, word processors, & vintage computers talking about textual technology transitions & the relationships between media tech & expression
Middle-schoolers in the FabLab’s printmaking summer camps designed cards using our risograph machine & prints using P22’s modular printing Blox—we’re bowled over by their results! dry-inc.com/products/p22...
August 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Middle-schoolers in the FabLab’s printmaking summer camps designed cards using our risograph machine & prints using P22’s modular printing Blox—we’re bowled over by their results! dry-inc.com/products/p22...
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The iSchool’s incredible facilities director made space in a loading dock where I can work on the press—cleaning, replacing rollers, etc.
When it’s ready, we’ll replace the less-fancy Vandercook @skeuomorphpress.org with this one (we just don’t have room for 2)p
When it’s ready, we’ll replace the less-fancy Vandercook @skeuomorphpress.org with this one (we just don’t have room for 2)p
August 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The iSchool’s incredible facilities director made space in a loading dock where I can work on the press—cleaning, replacing rollers, etc.
When it’s ready, we’ll replace the less-fancy Vandercook @skeuomorphpress.org with this one (we just don’t have room for 2)p
When it’s ready, we’ll replace the less-fancy Vandercook @skeuomorphpress.org with this one (we just don’t have room for 2)p
Here’s what we’re printing at the press—find out how to order one and support our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...
July 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Here’s what we’re printing at the press—find out how to order one and support our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...
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Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project
Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...
Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project
Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...
July 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Friends, please share!
Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project
Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...
Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project
Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...
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First up in the Society of Early Americanists joint fundraiser are the protest posters of @ryancordell.org - Ryan directs @skeuomorphpress.org an experiential studio for research and teaching in book and information arts that is housed in the @Champaign-Urbana Community FabLab....
May 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
First up in the Society of Early Americanists joint fundraiser are the protest posters of @ryancordell.org - Ryan directs @skeuomorphpress.org an experiential studio for research and teaching in book and information arts that is housed in the @Champaign-Urbana Community FabLab....
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Over the next few weeks I will finally have the bandwidth to work on @skeuomorphpress.org’s numbered edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “A Rant About ‘Technology’”
So today I’m in the press experimenting with ink/paper combos for the front covers
Watch this space for fundraiser info—coming ver soon!
So today I’m in the press experimenting with ink/paper combos for the front covers
Watch this space for fundraiser info—coming ver soon!
June 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Over the next few weeks I will finally have the bandwidth to work on @skeuomorphpress.org’s numbered edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “A Rant About ‘Technology’”
So today I’m in the press experimenting with ink/paper combos for the front covers
Watch this space for fundraiser info—coming ver soon!
So today I’m in the press experimenting with ink/paper combos for the front covers
Watch this space for fundraiser info—coming ver soon!
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We’ve been running low on wall space @skeuomorphpress.org for awhile, so while course prepping this weekend I decided to use our vertical space—now we have prints up into the rafters!
May 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We’ve been running low on wall space @skeuomorphpress.org for awhile, so while course prepping this weekend I decided to use our vertical space—now we have prints up into the rafters!
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Had a fantastic time at @skeuomorphpress.org 's #buildingbooklabs25! It was truly humbling to learn from master printmakers and digital humanities enthusiasts like @josefbeery.bsky.social, @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social and many others. I cannot wait to apply everything I have learned to my work!
May 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Had a fantastic time at @skeuomorphpress.org 's #buildingbooklabs25! It was truly humbling to learn from master printmakers and digital humanities enthusiasts like @josefbeery.bsky.social, @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social and many others. I cannot wait to apply everything I have learned to my work!
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Feeling grateful for getting to attend #BuildingBookLabs25. In an absolutely insane time for arts, humanities, and libraries alike my work at @skeuomorphpress.org has been a vital outlet. Getting to see the incredible work by Booklabs and artists across the country shows— we’re not going anywhere!
May 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Feeling grateful for getting to attend #BuildingBookLabs25. In an absolutely insane time for arts, humanities, and libraries alike my work at @skeuomorphpress.org has been a vital outlet. Getting to see the incredible work by Booklabs and artists across the country shows— we’re not going anywhere!