Skeuomorph Press sponsors applied research in book history and creative projects by students and faculty, offers experiential workshops in the history of print technologies, teaches modules in classes across departments, and fosters a community of makers on campus. We are especially interested in experiments that blend historical and contemporary technologies, such as intersections between letterpress and 3D printing, and in creative projects that engage with the rich materiality of letterpress production.

Media Necromancy Speaker Series

The “Media Necromancy” speaker series unearths what Alan Liu describes as “the déjá vu haunting of new by old media”—the many ways that historical media technologies are woven into the design, function, and reception of newer media technologies. Sponsored by Skeuomorph Press & BookLab, each talk in the series traces one such entanglement, showing how rich media archeologies can help scholars better understand, contextualize, analyze, and design information systems.

A Rant About “Technology” Edition

Skeuomorph Press was proud to produce an edition of letterpress-printed, custom-illustrated, hand-bound, numbered copies of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “A Rant About ‘Technology,’” following the text at Le Guin’s website, which is to our knowledge the only existing analog edition of the text.

“Building Book Labs” Symposium

This event gathered scholars and students to theorize experiential research and teaching in book history and adjacent fields; share practical advice about founding, growing, and sustaining such endeavors; and to make together through hands-on symposium activities.

Surveying the Humanities Maker Lab Movement

SHMLM analyzed the humanities’ maker turn by surveying the research, pedagogical, and public service missions of existing humanities makerspaces; identifying commonalities among such efforts across disciplines, technologies, and organizational structures; comparing their activities and institutional identities with comparable contemporary STEM- or arts-focused makerspaces.