Second year students (IDEA Grad 2025) explore the process of Risograph printing with Erica Wilk of Moniker Press
Second-year students (IDEA Grad 2025) explored the process of Risograph printing with Erica Wilk of Moniker Press in IDES 247 Survey and Principles of Typography.
For this typography project, they created postcards featuring an illustrated drop cap. Historically used to indicate a new block of text within passages of copy, these letterforms’ potential for decoration and flourishes have crossed over into artwork in their own right.
“Q is for Quail” by Kyle Rask is shown above. “Although working entirely digital, I approached this project like I would a screen print—I tested various opacities layered over each other and built myself a colour guide before I started so I could visualize as many colour variations I could create with only blue and pink,” writes Kyle.
Check out some recent student work from IDEA Grad 2025!
“This course provides students with a thorough understanding of typography as a core element of visual communication. The evolution of type from the mid-1400s to the present day is discussed in the context of the technology of the time and its influence on letterforms. Students gain a grounding in the principles of best typographic practice as they apply to print and digital mediums. Instruction in design-related software supports the course.”
About Moniker Press
MONIKER PRESS is a risograph print and publishing studio that works collaboratively with artists to produce small editions of books, zines and print ephemera. Located in Vancouver, Canada on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
