Two new single-element decorative Borders are proffered for June. First is Border No. 99 in 18 point. It is what might be called directional, and could be rotated to a different orientation on each side of the box, but there is no corner element designed to accompany it. This is the way Monotype shows it in their catalog.
Next is Border No. A-632 36 point, which is symmetrical eight ways from Sunday. Thus, the single element serves equally well as runner or corner. This one’s cast from Ludlow matrices. Just don’t get one of ’em stuck in your tire!
Recast and back in stock is Keynote in 18 point. (A restock of the 48 point is also underway and will be finished and packed in time for July announcement.)
In May Skyline was privileged to have not one, but two V.I.P. visitors. First was Professor Sean Silver of the Rutgers University English Department, who is establishing a letterpress studio in the campus library. He stopped by on his shiny new Triumph motorcycle on a long road trip back to New Jersey from the west coast. Sean very much enjoyed his foundry tour, and seemed to take to heart my standard advice that printing always works out much better with new type. He also offered the timely observation that although academic libraries are withering away in the shadow of the internet, there’s a secret benefit in that it frees up floor space for things like his new printing studio.
We also hosted a media crew from Phoenix radio station KJZZ, who contacted Skyline recently asking to feature us on their Arts & Culture/Human Interest program. KJZZ is “an award-winning, listener-supported public radio station . . . As the NPR member station for the region, KJZZ features a mix of local, national and global news. The station also airs a mix of entertainment and discussion programs to complement the daily news coverage“. They toured and interviewed all afternoon and had a good time. We’re told that the interview will be edited down into a ten-minute segment for broadcast sometime in June; it will also be archived, and I should have a link for you in our July news release—so stay tuned!