Letterpress wine labels and bags designed and printed for Sal Dottore by Carli Dottore. Both the bags and labels were letterpressed on a Vandercook Universal I Proof Press at the Type High Press on the Kent State University campus using both wood type and custom linotype. See more of Carli’s letterpress & design goodness on her portfolio.
For 8 weeks, starting July 1st, these Levi’s Workshops are places for creation, inspiration, and collaboration. Located in San Francisco’s iconic Mission District at 580 Valencia Street, Levi’s has opened up a community print shop and will be teaching classes on classic Vandercook and Chandler & Price letterpresses, setting type and screen printing. See a list of upcoming events here.
Beautifully designed Daily Drop Cap letterpress business cards by Jessica Hische printed by the notorious Cranky Pressman. Printed in 2 colors, a black and warm red, on Crane’s Lettra 220 lbs. paper finished with edge painting. Lovely.
New “Polaroid” letterpress print by Douglas Wilson. Printed with his Vandercook using polymer plates on 8.5 x 11″ dark gray paper. The size of the Polaroid in the poster is exactly double that of a regular Polaroid. The limited edition of 250 are signed by Douglas and available at the Keep Calm Gallery for £20.00.
New letterpress poster titled Dia de los Muertos printed by Denver based letterpress printer, Genghis Kern and illustrated by Shaw Nielsen. The beautiful 2-color poster was printed on an Asbern Proof Press. You can buy one from Shaw Nielsen at his store for only $35.
Brooklyn based artist and wallpaper designer Dan Funderburgh released a beautiful two color screen print & letterpress combination poster. Printed on Crane’s Lettra paper at 16.5″ x 24.5″ Prints are signed and numbered by Dan and are only available in an edition of 75. Buy one at Arkitip for $75.
New letterpress business cards by Studio On Fire for the interactive, anti-agency out of Salt Lake City, Welikesmall. 2 color (1 blind deboss) with edge painting.
On 3.27.2010, AIGA Cleveland and Cranky Pressman held Cranky Camp. Cranky Camp is a 6 hour letterpress printing workshop where visitors are allowed to dig into wood and metal type, digbats and cuts, to make themselves a poster. Some of the results can be found on the Cranky Pressman’s Flickr page. Very cool to see people opening their shops for all that are interested. Thank you to Keith and Jamie Berger for providing this educational opportunity to AIGA Cleveland. You rock.
Coming soon (pre-ordering is available) is the letterpress version of Feltron’s 2009 Annual Report printed by Swayspace in New York and designed by info graphics master, Nicholas Felton. The 4 color, 16 page annual report consists of Felton’s personal data collected throughout 2009 and is printed on 80 lbs. French Durotone cover stock and will be individually numbered, signed and mailed in March. The finished booklet is 8″ x 10″ and is available for pre-order for $25. Limited to 2000 copies. We are in love.
A new letterpress identity package was recently created for Vista Caballo by Thinktopia. Letterhead, envelopes, business cards, note cards, journals and labels were all letterpressed by Studio On Fire and are all worth a look. Great use of both texture and color with their selections of paper including Crane’s Lettra Pearl White and French Paper Co.’s Speckletone series. Beautiful design and printing.
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