The Printer's Tarot by Radical Emprints
“This 78-card black and white tarot deck is designed entirely using letterforms from the typeface Garamond to create images. None of the letters were distorted to make the images; they were digitally rotated, resized, and layered.
I conceived & created the PRINTERS’ TAROT beginning in November 2017, and first released it in 2018.
In a true moment of flow, I designed almost the entire Major Arcana in one sitting. As a student of letterpress printing, I have a deep love of letterforms and a belief that the written word can be full of magic.
The Printers’ Tarot: Second Edition features revised & updated card interpretations, refined card designs, and a new how-to guide for reading tarot. In addition, the face cards are now the novice, apprentice, printer, and mentor: I think these names better reflect the journey of many letterpress printers.
The deck was digitally designed and is printed by Dale Rand Printing, a union printshop in Portland, Maine.
*For my fellow type nerds, I used Garamond Premier Pro.” - Radical Emprints
Box is 4.75“ x 2.5” x 1”
*This item is discount eligible.
“This 78-card black and white tarot deck is designed entirely using letterforms from the typeface Garamond to create images. None of the letters were distorted to make the images; they were digitally rotated, resized, and layered.
I conceived & created the PRINTERS’ TAROT beginning in November 2017, and first released it in 2018.
In a true moment of flow, I designed almost the entire Major Arcana in one sitting. As a student of letterpress printing, I have a deep love of letterforms and a belief that the written word can be full of magic.
The Printers’ Tarot: Second Edition features revised & updated card interpretations, refined card designs, and a new how-to guide for reading tarot. In addition, the face cards are now the novice, apprentice, printer, and mentor: I think these names better reflect the journey of many letterpress printers.
The deck was digitally designed and is printed by Dale Rand Printing, a union printshop in Portland, Maine.
*For my fellow type nerds, I used Garamond Premier Pro.” - Radical Emprints
Box is 4.75“ x 2.5” x 1”
*This item is discount eligible.
“This 78-card black and white tarot deck is designed entirely using letterforms from the typeface Garamond to create images. None of the letters were distorted to make the images; they were digitally rotated, resized, and layered.
I conceived & created the PRINTERS’ TAROT beginning in November 2017, and first released it in 2018.
In a true moment of flow, I designed almost the entire Major Arcana in one sitting. As a student of letterpress printing, I have a deep love of letterforms and a belief that the written word can be full of magic.
The Printers’ Tarot: Second Edition features revised & updated card interpretations, refined card designs, and a new how-to guide for reading tarot. In addition, the face cards are now the novice, apprentice, printer, and mentor: I think these names better reflect the journey of many letterpress printers.
The deck was digitally designed and is printed by Dale Rand Printing, a union printshop in Portland, Maine.
*For my fellow type nerds, I used Garamond Premier Pro.” - Radical Emprints
Box is 4.75“ x 2.5” x 1”
*This item is discount eligible.
Nicole Manganelli (she/her) is the printmaker behind the press(es) at radical emprints. She started to learn letterpress printing in 2012, just as she was also beginning to learn about grassroots organizing. She ended up spending about nine years at a base-building organization, where she worked on a health care is a human right campaign and learned about teaching grassroots fundraising and principled, values-aligned grantwriting (both for when she’s working in orgs within and outside of the non-profit industrial complex.) She was doing all of this while learning how to be a letterpress printer — so it was a natural progression to start putting printmaking & organizing together.
