TEXAS A+M COMMERCE VISCOM

This semester at @tamucviscom I am teaching a class called History of American Type, scroll down my feed to see a graphic I created for it last year. We have been going through the 1800s and last week we learned about Job Printing. One of my favorite design books, called Graphic Design before Graphic Designers, covers this topic well showcasing gorgeous examples. What is Job Printing?Jobbing is basically what a lot of us do now. Job printing—a nineteenth-century term—is traditionally defined as printing that uses display type and no more than a sheet or two of paper. Job printing covered tickets, letterheads, notices, invoices, vouchers, coupons, cards, labels, posters, receipts, and timetables, to name only a very few. I pulled the definition from Letterpresscommons.com. In class, we quickly sketched our own trade card. Over the weekend, I decided to develop it further. I love Job Printing, let me know what you think!