21. Pentagram Press

The Pentagram Press was founded in 1974 by Michael Tarachow. The press originally contracted offset printing to local Milwaukee houses, but in 1976 Tarachow began using the letterpress of a fellow printer to produce fine press books in limited editions. In 1979 Tarachow moved Pentagram to Markesan, Wisconsin, where he printed books of poetry, fiction, literary criticism, and typographical design. The Pentagram Press produced more than seventy-five books and a host of broadsides and other letterpress ephemera. DePol’s collaborations with Pentagram developed during the 1990s.