Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨ (@wolfproofpress.com)

@wolfproofpress.com Oct 10, 2026, 11:26 AM

A little zine print with DIY type: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/read...

@wolfproofpress.com Oct 9, 2026, 3:39 PM

Thank you, it was a surprisingly sturdy little ship!

@wolfproofpress.com Oct 8, 2026, 11:51 PM

This is one of the more "make bad art" school of things I've made, & it was such a joy (& challenge, to build overnight from what's on hand light enough to float, & that won't tip over in the wind). Excited to make more things that interact w/outdoors, including more polished installation-sized art:

@wolfproofpress.com Oct 6, 2026, 9:23 AM

Trans joy, rights, bread, roses. store.wolfproofpress.com/product/tran...

@wolfproofpress.com Oct 4, 2026, 1:33 PM

Need a (giant historical pointing) hand? 👉 These 🌈 letterpress printers fists are ~16" cuff to fingertip & beyond Art are good for your "don't forget your keys", "watch that step", "look at my dog's training diploma" needs: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/very...

Photo of a Vandercook printing press with an 11x17 bamboo printing block of a historical printers fist (pointing hand) on it, block and rollers inked in red-orange-purple gradient. At the foot of the press sits an example print made with the block.

Photo of two of the same letterpress prints side by side, on white cardstock paper with gradient red-orange-purple ink, sitting above a measuring tape to show how large the printed hand is. It’s a giant (~9x16”) historical, frill-cuffed pointing hand (printers fist) with a bamboo-textured background.

Photo of two of the same letterpress prints side by side, on light yellow cardstock paper with gradient red-orange-purple ink. It’s a giant (~9x16”) historical, frill-cuffed pointing hand (printers fist) with a bamboo-textured background.

Photo of a letterpress print on chipboard paper with gradient red-orange-purple ink. It’s a giant (~9x16”) historical, frill-cuffed pointing hand (printers fist) with a bamboo-textured background. A pen sits on top of the print to show by scale how large the hand is.

@literaturegeek.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 11:27 PMReposted by @wolfproofpress.com

Remixed quotes=in italic: Warde's poem + Sandia Lab's report text for warning future generations from protected nuclear waste sites. Nonitalic=my critical tech writing—a press is but its printers (a community printshop only for the community made safe there; 💜 printing by acting for good)

Photo of a letterpress print on cream paper with copper-brown ink. It says "This Is A Printing-Office":
THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE
Like all technology: human choice, if evil or good
This place is not a place of honor but it could be a place of hope
Refuge of arts, craft, community, learning
a megaphone for justice, fearless truth slipping bit rot & digital censorship: or playing at a whitewashed past; to pretend away present fascism
The center of danger is here; the center of hope is here
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours (the possibility, too) From this place you may send words of justice, liberation, reparation, collective care: or serving capital, stoking hate
A press is but its printers
Friend you stand on ground
You make sacred—or not
THIS is a PRINTING-OFFICE
Remixed text (in italics) from Beatrice Warde & Sandia National Labs; & new text by Amanda Wyatt Visconti, VA Ctr. for the Book". An image of a printing press is in the bottom right corner.

Photo of a tray set up for setting a long poem, with lines of leading ready to receive lines of type but still empty, the title and the printing press block the only things in place yet

Photo (digitally flipped for readability) of letterpress type arranged on a metal printing press tray, the lines of leading in the previous photo half-filled now by movable type.

Photo (digitally flipped for readability) of letterpress type arranged on a metal printing press bed, typesetting finished. The type says "THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE
Like all technology: human choice, if evil or good
This place is not a place of honor but it could be a place of hope
Refuge of arts, craft, community, learning
a megaphone for justice, fearless truth slipping bit rot & digital censorship: or playing at a whitewashed past; to pretend away present fascism
The center of danger is here; the center of hope is here
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours (the possibility, too) From this place you may send words of justice, liberation, reparation, collective care: or serving capital, stoking hate
A press is but its printers
Friend you stand on ground
You make sacred—or not
THIS is a PRINTING-OFFICE
Remixed text (in italics) from Beatrice Warde & Sandia National Labs; & new text by Amanda Wyatt Visconti, VA Ctr. for the Book". An image block of a printing press is in the bottom right corner.

@literaturegeek.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 11:12 PMReposted by @wolfproofpress.com

"This is not a place of honor, but it could be a place of hope". I remixed Warde's "This Is Printing-Office" & Sandia Labs' nuclear waste report (italics) w/my own critical tech text. From my 🎨 archive & press: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/prin...

Digital composite of a screenshot of the text of Beatrice Warde's original poem, followed by a website's contextualizatipn that "This fabulous text by Beatrice Warde was originally printed in 1932 to show Eric Gill's new Perpetua typeface for Monotype." My caption is "why post something popularized as a showcase of serial rapist eric gill's work in your printshop?!" and "So I remixed it with a future-proof nuclear waste site warning report" by a screenshot from a Wikipedia article about the 1991 Sandia Labs report that includes the text "this place is not a place of honor.
no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing
valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger". Warde's poem's text is: "THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE
CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATION
REFUGE OF ALL THE ARTS
AGAINST THE RAVAGES OF TIME
ARMORY OF FEARLESS TRUTH
AGAINST WHISPERING RUMOUR
INCESSANT TRUMPET OF TRADE
FROM THIS PLACE WORDS MAY FLY ABROAD
NOT TO PERISH ON WAVES OF SOUND
NOT TO VARY WITH THE WRITER'S HAND
BUT FIXED IN TIME HAVING BEEN VERIFIED IN PROOF
FRIEND YOU STAND ON SACRED GROUND
THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE"

Closeup on that screenshot of a website's transcription of Warde's poem and contextualization of the poem, circled in red by me with my added text "excuse me?! serial rapist eric gill?!" Full screenshot text: "THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE
CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATION
REFUGE OF ALL THE ARTS
AGAINST THE RAVAGES OF TIME
ARMORY OF FEARLESS TRUTH
AGAINST WHISPERING RUMOUR
INCESSANT TRUMPET OF TRADE
FROM THIS PLACE WORDS MAY FLY ABROAD
NOT TO PERISH ON WAVES OF SOUND
NOT TO VARY WITH THE WRITER'S HAND
BUT FIXED IN TIME HAVING BEEN VERIFIED IN PROOF
FRIEND YOU STAND ON SACRED GROUND
THIS
AS A PRINTING OFFICE
This fabulous text by Beatrice Warde was originally printed
in 1932 to show Eric Gill's new Perpetua typeface for Monotype. Printing establishments all over the world hung..."

@cooljbad.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 7:49 PMReposted by @wolfproofpress.com

My new posters from @wolfproofpress.com are up!!

Two posters on a white column.

Top:
Small banner style poster, stiff white paper. With silver text "A COMPUTER can never be held accountable, therefore A COMPUTER must never make a management decision."

Bottom:
~9"x13" brown stiff chipboard poster. Press inking text in Blue-Violet
"To the computer all aspects of the word other than information are 'noise'. But we are not computers. We may not be very bright, but we are brighter than computers. - Ursula K. Le Guin"

The word "brighter" is focused, handinking in gold, with an orange sunrise behind it.

@wolfproofpress.com Oct 1, 2026, 6:59 AM

If u need 🪩, in addition to these Historical 🐳 Pal/DH wisdom letterpress prints there's a holographic sticker version that benefits a regional LGBTQ+ nonprofit (ty @heatherfro.bsky.social!) : store.wolfproofpress.com/product/stic...

@literaturegeek.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 6:56 AMReposted by @wolfproofpress.com

"Moby Dick is about whales." - @heatherfro.bsky.social

From my 🎨 archive, this 1568 "most true & marvelous strange wonder" wants you to do DH text analysis well. Edited an EEBO scan, lasercut bamboo, for the 🐳 print; orange 🏁 = printed rug antislip fabric. store.wolfproofpress.com/product/moby...

@literaturegeek.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 8:52 PMReposted by @wolfproofpress.com

For some particular infra folks who actually lead the university: deliberately overlooked, routinely underestimated, capaciously knowledgeable, injecting care into bureaucracy. Thanks to all the Doloreses for making academia run instead of trying to say "AI" loudest. Many Dolores; no president.

Photo of 4 of the same letterpress prints on royal blue paper with blue ink, arranged in a 2x2 grid. It says "more doloreses / no president"

Photo of 4 of the same letterpress prints on tan chip paper with dark blue ink, arranged in a 2x2 grid. They say "more doloreses / no president"

Photo of letterpress wood type arranged on a printing press bed with blue ink on the type, used to make the percy's in the previous photos

Screenshot of a QT by me from a month back, of a good tweet by Tressie McMillan Cottom. QT: "Thinking of that tweet re:everyone in academia knows a 60yo woman only known by her 1st name, who actually runs the dept/uni. (Which is almost at an anarchist understanding: not "make Dolores president" but "many Doloreses, no president" and "how can you Dolores too")"
Dr. Cottom tweet: "Anyway, your problem isn't finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it's really thinking."

@wolfproofpress.com Sep 29, 2026, 1:24 PM

Thinking about a purple/lavender ink with bread & wheat (& justice?) imagery; and maybe a sunrise-gradient version. Let me know if you like sending cards & have suggestions! The included bread recipe is the only part of the old card I'm sure I'm keeping (it's good bread)

@literaturegeek.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 1:21 PMReposted by @wolfproofpress.com

Gonna print a new version of my 🍞-recipe holiday/greeting cards. If you send cards: text votes or ideas? 1) Wish I was breaking bread (& fascism?) w/you; 'til then this recipe will have to do 2) Breaking fascism, bread: each better together 3) May next year brings justice, love, & more fresh-baked 🍞

@wolfproofpress.com Sep 26, 2026, 12:19 AM

#ICYMI Ursula K. Le Guin prints are up in my press store: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/we-a...

@wolfproofpress.com Sep 24, 2026, 6:51 AM

bears anomaly to go with the absolute-unit sheep anomaly

Print held up to the light: it's a lightky inked, rotationally symmetrical oddity with paws and bear heads sticking out, from covering an inked printing block during the printing press carriage return trip. Blue ink on translucent white-yellow paper.

Print held up to the light: in the middle in darkest ink is an oddity of sheep hooves and floof, from printing a sheep image block once than again after rotating the paper 180 degrees, and the ensuing overlapping area. Black ink on translucent white paper.

@wolfproofpress.com Sep 24, 2026, 6:40 AM

"u might think this print is finished but it's going to get So Much More Text" is going in my artist bio

@literaturegeek.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 5:57 AMReposted by @wolfproofpress.com

Fat Bear Week... year-round? 🔵 Made a Quick GIF of my pulling the 1st pass of a work-in-progress print on a Provisional Press (small tabletop cylinder press) #DHmakes

@wolfproofpress.com Sep 24, 2026, 6:38 AM

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@literaturegeek.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 8:33 AMReposted by @wolfproofpress.com

🕰️👈 Still waiting to get on a lasercutter to finish the big poster volvelle/slider version of these prints from July, but smaller quick print explainers of 👉 Pointing Hand Imagery are now up in my store. (Mostly posting bc I accidentally deleted past art-photo posts 🙃) +

Photo of a static version of letterpress print on yellow paper with a red-orange-purple gradient giant pointing hand in the background, and blue ink on the text. It says "printers fist: Lil handy inky printing block added at time of printing. / be it known: i will die on this hill: most precisely manicule... means Opinionated reader's doodle hand-drawn after publication to comment / pls / O! speak not of manicule when a printers fist! may more powerfully be wielded?! / Scholarship by Kadin Henningsen / Infelicities from Amanda Wyatt Visconti". There are many pointing hands (printers fists) ornamenting the text.

Photo of a letterpress print on neon yellow paper with blue ink. It says "Printers fist: Lil handy inky printing block added at time of printing
Manicule: Opinionated reader's doodle hand-drawn after publication to comment" next to two pointing hand iages (printers fists). The print sits on a printing press bed next to the blue-inked type that it was just printed from.

@wolfproofpress.com Sep 23, 2026, 8:14 AM

My press store has a $5-print section, now including these letterpress quick explainers of historical pointing hand imagery (inspired by @transbookhistory.bsky.social's work): store.wolfproofpress.com/category/5-f...