Homage Press & Studio
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Homage Press & Studio is where type, print, and design meet — a space for posters, type design, and objects that pay homage to design history while exploring new forms.
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Homage Press & Studio is the publishing and production arm of my broader design practice — a place where my work in typography, print culture, and material exploration takes on a more public, collaborative, and brand-driven form.
For years, my personal studio (Kennedy A. Creative) has focused on graphic design, teaching, and research around legibility, letterforms, and the lived experience of reading. Homage Press & Studio grows directly out of that foundation — not as a separate project, but as an extension of the same questions I explore in my academic and professional work:
How do materials shape meaning?
What can letterpress teach us about contemporary design?
How do typography, craft, and culture intersect?
What happens when “design systems” are built with ink and wood instead of pixels?
Homage Press & Studio brings these questions into a new space — one rooted in printmaking, type design, Americana and Western visual culture, the history of the American print shop and contemporary design.
Where Kennedy A. Creative is flexible, educational, and client-facing, Homage Press is intentionally specific: a working studio dedicated to the messy, physical, and deeply human craft of typographic production.
Homage Press & Studio will serve as a platform for:
Letterpress posters & print editions
Featuring both traditional and experimental processes grounded in craft.
Typeface design
With releases inspired by American vernacular typography, wood type history, and contemporary reinterpretations.
Wood type production
Cut in-house using CNC and hand-finishing methods — bridging historical practice with modern tools.
Publications & print ephemera
From zines to type specimens to research-driven editions.
Design systems informed by analog print
Exploring how heritage, grit, and materiality translate into modern identity work.
Why ‘Homage’?
The name reflects the heart of the studio:
a commitment to honoring the past while building tools, objects, and systems for the future.
a commitment to honoring the past while building tools, objects, and systems for the future.
It’s an acknowledgment of the printers, type designers, sign painters, and anonymous craftspeople whose work built the visual language of America and an effort to carry that lineage forward with respect, curiosity, and craft.
Looking Ahead
begin releasing work in 2026, including:
Display typefaces
Wood type editions
Limited-run letterpress posters
Object- and material-based editions
Research publications on type & print culture
Workshops and educational resources
Until then, development, production, and prototyping are underway.
Where This Fits Into My Practice
As an MFA candidate and working designer, my research centers on typography, legibility, accessibility, and the relationship between form and meaning. Homage Press & Studio allows that research to manifest physically through ink, wood, metal, pressure, and repetition.
It is a space where my disciplines converge:
graphic design, letterpress, education, type design, Americana, print culture, and the ethos of the working studio.
graphic design, letterpress, education, type design, Americana, print culture, and the ethos of the working studio.
Homage is not an escape from my practice — it is my practice, distilled and given a home of its own.
