Letterpress Printing with Amber Favorite

Learn the basics of Letterpress Printing in this hands-on workshop with Amber Favorite of a. favorite design. All tools will be provided, no prior experience necessary!

About the Instructor

Amber Favorite studied graphic design in college, and was introduced to letterpress printing in a typography class. She was instantly smitten. The beautiful, antique machinery, the individual letters, the smell of ink – it was magic! During college, she designed for an agency, and afterward, she became a Senior Designer at a corporate paper company. Restless and always wanting to work for herself, Favorite started freelancing. However she didn’t like the feast or famine finances of freelance so to help, she found a job at a stationery shop. She learned of community letterpress classes and enrolled, volunteered, and spent as much time as possible learning letterpress and fine-tuning her craft. Favorite always had a passion for design and typography; letterpress printing became a magical, creative world filled with both. She quickly learned people liked her style so Favorite created a line of greeting cards & stationery. She officially created a. favorite design in 2005 and in June of 2007, acquired a 1913 C & P handfed press; she hasn’t looked back since, and within months she stopped working a retail job, and started working full-time on a. favorite design.

About Artists Book House

An interdisciplinary arts education organization founded by Audrey Niffenegger, we teach and promote the literary and book arts, offering non-credit arts curricula open to all. Through community, courses, exhibitions, and events, ABH helps people tell their stories and transform their worlds into books.

The book and paper arts movement has spread all over the world, with multiple centers dedicated to the art form; unfortunately, Chicago’s centers no longer stand. Our vision for an independent and expanded book and paper center has persevered through the pandemic and endured as Artists Book House.