By: Thomas James,
on 6/5/2015
By: Brian Bowes,
on 9/16/2014
Our friends over at the recently launched Weekend Press have teamed up with some amazing designers to create a letterpress print set that pays tribute to Oakland. Featuring work from Brent Couchman, Anna Hurley, Carl Bender, Erik Marinovich, Eszter Clark, Javier Garcia, Jeffrey Bucholtz, Nate Leutkehans, Richard Perez and Albert + Marie, the limited edition set, aptly titled Oakland Illustrated, is currently available through their Kickstarter page.
In addition to the print set, special pledge packages have been set up for those willing to invest a little more. Perks include a private letterpress workshop and a chance to meet with one of the artists involved.
Also available are two bonus 8×10 prints: “California”, a collaboration between Brent Couchman & Nate Luetkehans and “510 Forever”, a two-color foil print from Erik Marinovich, co-founder of Friends of Type and Title Case, featuring his first ever typeface “Hermanos”.
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Laura Cattaneo aka Half Past Twelve
Francesco Franchi / Intelligence in Lifestyle
Colorcubic
Neenah Paper recently launched The Beauty of Letterpress, an impressive online resource and showcase. The site features valuable links, educational videos, a printers directory, as well as a gallery which is curated by a different letterpress aficionado each month. In addition, limited edition prints are available by donation with proceeds funding The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum relocation process. To help reach the goal of $30,000, Neenah is generously offered to match all contributions up to $15,000. You can show your support here.
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Laura Cattaneo aka Half Past Twelve
Francesco Franchi / Intelligence in Lifestyle
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By: John,
on 10/31/2011
Happy Halloween from Cloudy Collection! It’s a big week for us: we’ve just launched Hanging with the Dead (a 5”x7” letterpress edition), we put it onto a brand new website, and this Friday, we’re going to look at this new set, plus another new set, and all ten of the earlier editions on the walls of Pink Hobo Gallery in Minneapolis. That’s about 100 prints by 80 different artists from around the world!
Thank you all for helping make the project such a huge success! And remember: wash the zombie guts off your hands before handling your new print set.
P.S. Look at those “Dead” artists: Sam Bosma, Emily Carroll, Michael DeForge, Michael Slack, Natasha Allegri, Steve Wolfhard - are you kidding me? So good!
(via Cloudy Collection / Print Editions)
By: John,
on 5/11/2011
Cloudy Collection is excited to announce our latest special edition print set, honoring and including the inimitable Ed Emberley. There are two “Monster Parade”-themed prints available: one 8”x10” four-color letterpress made exclusively for Cloudy Collection by Ed Emberley, and the other is a set of fifteen (plus one!) 4”x6” four-color screen prints by Ed Emberley, his daughter Rebecca Emberley, S. Britt, Tad Carpenter, Maura Cluthe, Becky Dreistadt, Bob Flynn, Meg Hunt, David Huyck, John Martz, Caleb Neelon, ;Heather Ross, Souther Salazar, Bwana Spoons, and Nate Wragg.
A portion of the sales of these prints will go to Heifer International, providing reliable sources of food to women and families in developing nations, and to the Central Asia Institute, which provides books and literacy and educational opportunities to girls and women in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Get one or the other or both sets right now at Cloudy Collection!
By: John,
on 3/9/2011
See Scotty Design & Illustration
Great illustration work from Scotty Reifsnyder, especially his beautiful-looking Heroes of Folk letterpress set.
By: John,
on 12/1/2010
Cloudy Collection’s brand new release, Simple, includes art by Blanca Gómez, Jennifer Daniel, David Huyck (pictured above), Lauren Nassef, Graham Annable, Tad Carpenter, and Tom Gauld. A portion of sales will support Susan G. Komen for the Cure, in honor of my mother’s successful treatment for breast cancer this fall. Way to go, Mom!
Scotty Reifsnyder updates his portfolio & shop with the Heroes of Folk, a series of letterpress cards featuring illustrations of American Folk legends like Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed. The cards are available for $30 a piece or $150 for the complete collection. Pick them up here.
Head nods and handshakes go out to Scott McClelland of Two Paper Dolls for doing such a wonderful job with the printing.
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Scotty Reifsnyder
Naive: Modernism and Folklore in Graphic Design
Impressive: Printmaking, Letterpress & Graphic Design
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By: Annie Beth Ericsson,
on 10/5/2010
Today, I’m obsessing over…
My first “find”, which I snagged from a take shelf (read: free books) on my way in to work, made up for everything that was hideous about the slush pile this morning. I have no idea why this profile on McFetridge (published as part of a series of designers by Gas As Interface) was in the office, but we are absolutely lovin’ it. While this L.A.-based designer with Champion Graphics creates everything from graphic posters to motion graphics/titles for films, I’m particularly loving his original wallpaper prints.
McFetridge’s book might be a bit overboard on the Helvetica, but his projects were so intriguing that I had to find out more. Pick it up here!
Ooooooh la la… if someone took every fancy trapping and visual treat and put it all in one book, it would be Bantjes’ I Wonder, which came out in gilded hardcover this month! The exquisite integration of text and art brings to mind that this is probably the single modern book that 15th-centrury monks would still be proud of. The price may be steep for a starving artist ($40), but all those elaborately designed pages look priceless.
Check out the rest of her projects as well… I can’t get enough of her seamless mix of materials and both old and new world design.
Thanks to Book By Its Cover for the link!
I’m not the kind of girl who has been planning her wedding since the age of 6. In fact,
By: John,
on 9/15/2010
The latest edition of the Cloudy Collection letterpress print series is now available! With art by Drawn’s own Matt Forsythe and myself, as well as Frank Chimero (previously), Maura Cluthe (previously), Eleanor Davis (previously), Julia Sonmi Heglund (previously), and Vincent Mathy (previously).
It’s an incredible stack of awesome! Get yours here.
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This past weekend, I had the privilege of visiting Jordan Provost and Jason Wong, the dynamite duo behind Brooklyn based stationery and gift line enormouschampion. Their incredible collection of letterpressed cards, screenprinted cloth, and wooden goods features images of animals, love, and nature, as well as bold type. In this studio visit, Jordan and Jason show us some of their favorite things and offer a couple of handy hints on organizing and collecting.
Where did the name enormouschampion come from?
It was upon completing the first project we worked on together. We were asked how we wanted to be credited and neither of us wanted our individual names, because it was such a collective effort. The two words were spoken together and everyone agreed it was the perfect name for us… from then on, it stuck.
What’s it like working with your significant other? Do you ever get tired of working with each other?
It’s good for the most part, but we have to try really hard to separate the work day with the home life…sometimes we get caught up with a lot of work talk and not enough board game playing time.
How long have you had your studio?
We made the leap to get a studio in the summer of 2009. Prior to that, we were operating out of our home and even though our cats enjoyed the playground of boxes, it wasn’t a mentally healthy environment for us humans to live in.
What do you like most about your space and the neighborhood?
We’re in an awesome building that has some other creative folks, and although our studio is separated from the others in the building, we occasionally exchange high-fives by the mailboxes. We also love that the studio building is a green building, with solar power, salvaged lighting, sinks, and other materials, and radiant heating, etc… It is walking distance from our home and in between the two are some great spots to stop for coffee, burgers or beer.
Impressive / 240 Pages / Published by Gestalten
Finally got my hands on a copy of Impressive. The book explores the interplay between current trends in graphic design and traditional handiwork such as letterpress printing, hand-cut linotype, chiselled woodblocks, and embossing. In addition to a rich selection of invitations, business cards, stationery, posters, and other material printed by hand, it offers personal insights from designers who are using old-fashioned techniques to create cutting-edge work.
Mikey Burton
Gavin Potenza
(L)Alexis Rom Estudio (R) Chris Thornley
Includes work from Frank Chimero, Dirk Fowler (F2 Design), Nobrow, Andrio Abero, Methane Studios, Hero Design, A. Micah Smith, The Heads of State, The Little Friends of Printmaking, Modern Dog, Mikey Burton, House Industries, Hatch, Tad Carpenter, Enormous Champion, Studio on Fire, Swink, Silnt, and many others.
You can pick up a copy at Amazon.
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Attention all type fans: Brooklyn based designer and Grain Edit favorite, Jessica Hische has some new prints for sale at her shop! Taken from the first six sets of the Daily Drop Cap project, these individual letterpress prints display the various lettering styles we’ve come to love.
For the true collectors out there, Jessica is offering special sets of all 26 letters of the alphabet…plus a CAKE! Yes, it’s true — a cake! Check out the entire collection at her shop and be sure to keep up to date with her Daily Drop Cap series.
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By: John,
on 9/1/2009
I’m a firm believer in “Keep It Simple, Stupid”, but some design solutions just call for a little more flourish and ornamentation. The Handy Book of Artistic Printing is a lovely celebration of 19th Century letterpress printing specimens and typography.
It’s a the perfect resource for the design/type nerd who’s looking to make their work a little more flowery.
Many thanks to the good people at Madison, Wisconsin based design firm Swink for sending me this awesome promotional piece. Swink put this together as a way to invite people to reconsider the way they’ve been marketing themselves and to believe in the power of a good story — their story. It comes with two plaid lawn chairs (so you can invite a friend), a fire and your very own dinosaur. To top it off, the whole thing comes packaged in a mailer with a giant smiling hot dog! That’s what I’m talking about!
The piece was letterpressed by the always top notch studio on fire.
I grabbed a few of the guys hanging around the office and broke out the fire. Thanks Swink! This hot dog is for you.
On a side note, Studio on Fire recently launched a sweet blog called Beast Pieces. This could be the coolest blog name ever.
Also worth checking Hatch: Promotional Bird Mobile
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Many thanks to the good people at Madison, Wisconsin based design firm Swink for sending me this awesome promotional piece. Swink put this together as a way to invite people to reconsider the way they’ve been marketing themselves and to believe in the power of a good story — their story. It comes with two plaid lawn chairs (so you can invite a friend), a fire and your very own dinosaur. To top it off the whole thing comes packaged in a mailer with a giant smiling hot dog! That’s what I’m talking about!
I grabbed a few of the guys hanging around the office and broke out the fire. Thanks Swink! This hit dog is for you.
Also worth checking Hatch: Promotional Bird Mobile
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on 5/23/2008
By: Jessamyn West,
on 8/20/2007
Welcome to the August 20, 2007 edition of Carnival of the Infosciences. Thanks to everyone who submitted stuff and all the others who asked me what the heck I was talking about. We got a huge response and I think allowing submissions via del.icio.us has helped participation somewhat (thought I think of carninfo being for information about meat!) go social software! Speacial thanks to Chad who really did most of the heavy lifting this time around as I tried to figure out how it all worked.
WoodyE presents Tragedy of the Library posted at What You Already Know, saying, “Public libraries lining up for a ‘tragedy of commons’?”
Katie Dunneback sent us Open letter to incoming LIS students posted at Young Librarian.
Chris Zammarelli, a long time friend and supporter of the Carnival, presents Good blogs, bad blogs posted at Walt at Random, saying, “While writing about research he’s performing for his next book, Walt outlines what makes for good and bad library blogs.”
Chris submits Keeping up posted at Blisspix.net, saying, “Some advice from Fiona Bradley about keeping up with the library literature.”
Chris also shares This Just In: ILL is Important! posted at Circ and Serve, saying, “Mary Carmen Chimato reviews an Association of Research Libraries about ILL.”
Holly directs Carnival readers to And did we tell you the name of the game, boy? We call it riding the gravy train posted at The Gap, saying, “A neat story about a patron who did a display of his videogames and consoles at the Joplin (MO) Public Library. Blurb from the library’s website”
Jeanne Kramer-Smyth shares Preserving Virtual Worlds - TinyMUD to SecondLife posted at SpellboundBlog.com, saying, “Thanks for taking a look and considering this for the Carnival of InfoSciences!”
Ellyssa Kroski invites us to peruse A Guide to Twitter in Libraries posted at iLibrarian, saying, “I recently started blogging over at iLibrarian and I thought you and your readers might find this post useful.”
Connie Crosby, another strong supporter of the Carnival of the Infosciences, presents The King, the Babe and the Books posted at Slaw, saying, “Post by Mark Lewis, Reference/Information Technology Librarian, Sir James Dunn Law Library, Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He marks the anniversary of a fire at the Dunn Law Library with a post including some spectacular (or rather, disturbing) photos from the fire 22 years ago. SLAW is a co-operative blog discussing Canadian law and technology.”
Additionally, Connie suggests Law Firms & Content Strategy posted at Law Firm Web Strategy, saying, “Steve Matthews, recently Information Director at law firm Clark Wilson, has just started his own consulting firm and with it a new blog called Law Firm Web Strategy. His posts to date are quite smart, so it is difficult to choose just one. I have selected this one because he discusses an analysis he did of the websites of the top 100 U.S. law firms, and lessons learned from this analysis. Steve’s blog is one to watch for anyone interested in search engine optimization (SEO), marketing, and law firm management.”
Connie also recommends Thoughts After Library Camp NYC posted at YALSA, saying, “I like Linda Braun’s summary of Library Camp NYC earlier this week.”
Burning the Library posted at Providentia, saying, “Book-burning, the Nazi way”. We are very happy to have this submission from someone outside the LIS field, but who cares enough about libraries to write about them. Way to go Doc!
And now for the submissions we received through del.icio.us. We had a good number tagged with “carninfo” this week. Don’t forget to add a note when you tag so we can share why you thought the post was worth including.
Emily Alling (bibliomonstra) tagged “The New Librarians”, an article from T.H.E. Journal on the changing roles of school librarians, and suggested that this piece would be “great to share with administrators, board members, teachers, parents, and anyone who might not be up to speed on the new face of school libraries”.
RoseFireRising suggested that we read “The Scientific Research Potential of Virtual Worlds” (abstract), published in Science 27 July 2007: 472-476., saying “”virtual worlds may foster scientific habits of mind better than traditional schools can, because they constantly require inhabitants to experiment with unfamiliar alternatives, rationally calculate probable outcomes, and develop complex theoretical …”. This article requires a subscription.
Also tagged by Rose, we have “Virtual Worlds, Real Leaders”, and she says, “This intriguing report focuses on similarities in the psychology of World of Warcraft and other virtual worlds in building corporate leadership skills. Changes are recommended in corporate management to make it more like successful games.”
Jenna Freedman tagged “Return of the Zine Yearbook” and tells us that this post is a, “Discussion of a zine anthology and amassing of power by Microcosm, a zine distro and publisher and how this affects (should affect?!?) libraries. Recommendations of other zine distros. Includes one snarky comment by a fellow librarian and zine publisher.” Hooray for snarky comments.
Martha Hardy (grasshopperlibr) submitted “We Asked for 2.0 Libraries and We Got 2.0 Librarians” and asks, “Is the collective Library 2.0 venture a raging success, a waste of time, or a successful work in progress? What does it mean to be a Librarian 2.0? Ryan Deschamps aptly sums it up for us on The Other Librarian”.
Martha also tagged “The Book-ish-ness of Books” and says, “What is a book? And how much does the format matter? The Pegasus Librarian says, in part: “The point is that “containers” are not entirely benign. If they were entirely benign, people wouldn’t pour ginger ale from the can to the glass.”
And speaking of the Pegasus Librarian,Iris Jastram submits “A Study of Scanning Habits”, where the future of books, ebooks, and the format in general are discussed.
Thar’s it for this week! Tara E. Murray will be hosting the next edition of the Carnival at DIYLibrarian. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of the infosciences using our carnival submission form. You can also use the del.icio.us tag carninfo to submit your favorites. Make sure to use the “Notes” field to state why you tagged it and sign your name so we know who shared it with us. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
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By: Jessamyn West,
on 8/14/2007
Chad strongarm^H^H^H talked me into hosting the wandering Infosciences Carnival which was probably something I should have done a long time ago anyhow. You can participate too, it’s incredibly easy. Send a link to the best library stuff you’ve been reading this week, either via del.icio.us using the carninfo tag or this submission form. Need to know more/ Check out the submission guidelines on the wiki, or just ask me or Chad. Thanks for contributing.
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annie- just got a mini letterpress kit, its so fun. made some thank you cards with the little plates they provided but am looking forward to experimenting a bit and seeing what i can use to do some pressing.
http://www.seriouscraft.com/blog/materialism/portable-letterpress-kit-vs-homemade-press
okay that is seriously all I want for christmas now… I think you’ve just upgraded my obsession. thanks for the link!!