EXHIBITIONS
2023. “Writing on the Wall.” Elkton Library & Gallery 301. Elkton, MD. “No More War. No More Putin.” “Opposites.” “< HIM.” April 1 - 23, 2023.
2023. “In the Abstract,” Newark Arts Alliance, January - February 24, 2023. “How Ink Writes Poetry.” Newark, Delaware
2022. “New Impressions 2022.” Hamilton Wood Type Museum. Two Rivers, Wisconsin. An international, juried exhibition to showcase exploration and creativity with letterpress printing techniques. “PleaseTeleport.me.” April - May 2022.
Not specifically related to letterpress, but significant to how we think and conceptualize about design. Direct Radiography was an early contributor to filmless X-ray technology. Jill Cypher & Ray Nichols did a lot of the early promotional and advertising work for them and their DirectRay technology, producing work in 14 languages. At about the time we resigned the account, Hologic Medical Imaging bought Direct Radiography. Hagley Museum & Library documented DR’s history through their Hagley Digital Archives and included an oral interview with us which is now part of the historical record. Main page. Our interview. 2021.
2020 “Lead Graffiti Retrospective : Printed Slowly & Patiently Via Letterpress.” Delaware College of Art & Design. Wilmington, Delaware. December 2019 - February 2020.
2018 Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design, the University of Texas at El Paso, February-March 2018. Electric Fire From the Clouds. February-March 2018.
2018 Fertile Ground: Artists Respond to a Collective Geography, College Book Art Association Juried Members’ Exhibition, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts Philadelphia, PA, January 2018. 1 book / Electric Fire From the Clouds
2017 The Palette and the Page, Elkton, MD, October 2017. 8 books
2015 Tour de Lead Graffiti, Hamilton Wood Type Museum, Two Rivers, WI, July - August 2015. 50 broadsides from Tour de Lead Graffiti 2011 - 2014
2017 Amplify & Multiply / Art of Resistance / 3 cards & signs / Colorado College, March 27 - April 17, 2017 / site. 3 protest cards & protest signs, From the Women's March / Washington, DC / January 21, 2017 - Attie Blu's "Girl Power" sign, Lead Graffiti's "Love / Hate" card, and Lead Graffiti's "Rights or Wrong?" sign is at the bottom of 44/76
2014 AIGA / Philadelphia's SPACE Gallery, June 2015. 38 broadsides from Tour de Lead Graffiti 2011 - 2014
2014 The British Library, London, England. July - November 2014. 20 broadsides from Tour de Lead Graffiti 2011 - 2013
2014 Middlebury, Vermont / 23 Tour de Lead Graffiti broadsides (associated with their annual Gran Fondo cycling event), June 2014
20 broadsides from Tour de Lead Graffiti 2011 - 2012
WORK IN BOOKS
Hamilton Wood Type Museum / “New Impressions 2022” / Two Rivers, Wisconsin / 2022. An international, juried exhibition to showcase exploration and creativity with letterpress printing techniques. 1 broadside. PleaseTeleport.me.
Fritton, Chris, The Itinerant Printer, 2018. The book is arranged chronologically without page numbers. We are listed on 2/8/2016 (2 pages) and 2/11/2016 (2 pages).
Adventures in Letterpress by Brandon Mise / 3 projects : Tour de Lead Graffiti (category : products & packaging); Box Cards (category : unique materials & tricky techniques); A Haw Haw Haw (category : posters & broadsides) / 2014
Welsh, Craig, Design: Portfolio: Self promotion at its best, Rockport Publishers / 2013, pp. 196, 197. 2 projects.
For the Love of Letterpress : A Printing Handbook for Instructors and Students / 3 projects / 2013
1,000 More Greetings: Creative Correspondence for All Occasions, Rockport Publishers / 2010, 0178-0180, 0182, 0184-0190, 0212-0214, 0230-0232, 0795, 0807, 0842, 0971. 21 projects.
Art Directors Club Annual 88: Advertising Design Illustration Interactive Photography, Art Directors Club of New York, Grandmasters Award project, 2009; p 346 - 347. 10 images.
Heller, Steven & Anderson, Gail, New Vintage Type, Watson-Guptill Publications / 2007, pp 16, 72, 87, 90, 97. 5 projects.
ARTICLES, REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, & STORIES
Creative Pro interview by Irene Strizver / TypeTalk: An Interview with Ray Nichols of Lead Graffiti Letterpress. Link.
Typograph.her / short mention about our YouTube channel effort. Link.
WHYY-TV / “Waldorf School of Philadelphia diplomas” / You Oughta Know / segment starts at 21:40 / June 2019. Link to the video.
Museum of Printing newsletter, Volume 10, Issue 4, 2018, “On the Road with The Museum of Printing,” Haverhill, MA, Volume 10 / Issue 4 / 2018: p 9. Blog entry.
Romano, Frank, WhatTheyThink?, “Frank Visits Lead Graffiti, a Cutting-Edge Letterpress Shop,” December 7, 2018. Link to the video.
Newark Post, "Newark printing shop keeps letterpress tradition alive" by Josh Shannon / February 21, 2018
UDaily, University of Delaware, Teaching African-American Material Culture with Digital Humanities / April 16, 2018
Cloud, Gerald W. "Lead Graffiti's Tour de Force." The Book Club of California Quarterly, LXXXIII Number 1 (January 2018): p 23-26.
CreativePro, TypeTalk: An Interview with Ray Nichols of Lead Graffiti Letterpress by Ilene Strizver / October 5, 2016
Cutler, Craig, Stay Steady, Letterpress, Lead Graffiti photographs by Craig Cutler, 2016: p 30 - 39. 10 images.
WHYY-TV / Best of the Year's Top 10 / January 2015
UDaily, University of Delaware, Tour de France: 23 days, 23 posters / 2014
Bicycling Magazine / Art Inspired by the Tour de France by Ethan Wolff-Mann / July 2014
Printeresting / Tour de Lead Graffiti by Lauren Emeritz / July 2014
SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing) News on The Multifaceted Mr. Morris / Winter 2014
WHYY-TV / June 2014
Wolff Alexander, Tour de Lead Graffiti, Sports Illustrated / December 16, 2013: p 25. 1 image.
UDaily, University of Delaware, Lead Graffiti Publishes "The Multifaceted Mr. Morris / September 21, 2012
Fine Books & Collections magazine on The Multifaceted Mr. Morris / Summer 2012
Nichols, Ray and Cypher, Jill, A Printing Tour de France, Contemporary Impressions: The Journal of the American Print Alliance, Summer 2011: p 28 - 30. 8 images.
News Journal 2007, article about our work on the Histories of Newark: 1758 - 2008 book
Lucas, Carla, Lead Graffiti: Printed Slowly and Patiently via Letterpress in Newark, Delaware, Newark Life 2007: p 26-32. 11 images.
TALKS & DEMOS
The Contemporary, Wilmington, DE. Demonstration of the letterpress process. April 2022.
Talk to 2nd grade class in Memphis, TN about Ben Franklin. The teacher wanted the students to see what Franlin did. April 2022.
Delaware Bibliophiles, talk on our creative contribution to the 288-page Histories of Newark : 1758 - 2008 - February 2021.
Hamilton Wood Type Museum, “Hamilton Hang” lecture series - September 2020. A modified video of the talk is available on Lead Graffiti’s YouTube Channel at youtu.be/VsALn0bEwzs.
Series of seven talks on our work, our studio, and Art in the Community for the Delaware College of Art and Design / September - November 2020.
Online talk with Hamilton Hang sponsored by the Hamilton Wood Type Museum, Two Rivers, Wisconsin / September 2020.
Series of seven talks on our work, our studio, and Art in the Community for the Delaware College of Art and Design / September - November 2019.
The University of Alabama Book Arts in Tuscaloosa, AL @ua_bookarts. / "ZOOM" talk with Sonia Russow’s MFA graduate letterpress class focused on dynamic type via letterpress / October 2018
Hamilton Wood Type Museum / Wayzgoose / November 2017
2 talks on "Endurance Letterpress : the broadsides of Tour de Lead Graffiti" and 2 H.N. Werkman Creative Letterpress workshops
4 talks to Ann Lemon’s communications design students at Kutztown University / September 2016
• Know the answer before you hear the question
• Rage against the default
• Fight the easy way
• If there is a rule, there is a smart way to break it
Society of Typographic Arts / Chicago keynote address / January 2016
AIGA / Philadelphia talk at SPACE Gallery exhibition of selection of Tour de Lead Graffiti broadsides spanning 4 years / June 2015
AIGA / Philadelphia Night Caps podcast / "Graduate school versus work experience" / May 2015
AIGA / Philadelphia Feedback 17 opening motivational talk / May 2015
George Mason University / talk to Department of Graphic Arts students on designing and printing without sketching / 2015
The Library of Congress / APHA Chesapeake Chapter / November 2013
AIGA / Central Pennsylvania / May 2013
APHA National Conference, “Letterpress as Image (or Illustration?)” / October 2003
WORKSHOPS ON THE ROAD
Winterthur Museum & Library, Terrific Tuesdays, 2 H.N. Werkman hands-on letterpress experience for 200 kids aged 3 to 10, June / July 2021
Winterthur Museum & Library, Terrific Tuesdays, 2 H.N. Werkman hands-on letterpress experience for 200 kids aged 3 to 10, June / July 2019
Winterthur Museum & Library, Terrific Tuesdays, hands-on letterpress broadside experience for 120 kids aged 3 to 10, June / July 2019
Philadelphia Free Library public demonstration of our H.N. Werkman workshop. November 2018.
Hamilton Wood Type Museum / Wayzgoose / 2 H.N. Werkman Creative Letterpress workshops / November 2017
Society of Typographic Arts / Chicago / 2 workshops (H.N. Werkman & no sew books) / January 2016
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