Sycamore Street Press has just released their new collection. These are just a few of the over 2 dozen new letterpress items available in their shop.
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New Collection: Sycamore Street Letterpress
Sycamore Street Press has just released their new collection. These are just a few of the over 2 dozen new letterpress items available in their shop.
NSS 2011 Preview: Blackbird Letterpress
Blackbird letterpress specializes in stationery, greeting cards, custom printing, ephemera, flags, and animals with a personality. They believe in a high attention to detail, the tradition and history of letterpress, good design, and the narratives that follow along.
poppytalk handmade: blackbird letterpress
website: http://blackbirdletterpress.com
twitter: http://twitter.com/blackbirdletter
National Stationery Show Booth #1653.
NSS 2011 Preview: Pistachio Press
With the National Stationery Show coming next week, we'll be featuring some previews as they come across our radar in the next week or so. First up, I'm excited about this collaboration of notebooks by Rachael Hetzel of Pistachio Press and Abbey Hendrickson of Aesthetic Outburst! Also they couldn't be two nicer people. The cross stitch collection is designed by Abbey, printed by Pistachio Press. And the mid-century design is by Rachael. Both notebooks are printed on 140# kraft paper and contains 48-pages. They'll sell for $7 each or a set of three assorted designs for $18. They can be pre-ordered at Pistachio Press's Etsy shop here. Rachael will also have them in her booth at the National Stationery show, number 1664.
Pistachio Press
Aesthetic Outburst
National Stationery Show, Booth 1664
Letterpress + Love = Happiness
Illustrated by Drew Garza for Art School Girl, this art type print (measuring 5X7) is perfect for mailing and makes a great Valentine (and art print)! Letterpressed in three colours on printer's remnant paper, the print is signed and numbered. Available at Little Paper Planes and Poppytalk Handmade.
Guest Post by Jen @ Starshaped Press
Guest post by Starshaped Press
In October, I was fortunate to acquire a large collection of wood type that had previously been buried in the attic of a print shop that served all the printing needs of the small town in which I grew up. Some 70 faces strong, it included some very fine specimens of both elaborate and hard working fonts that have seen a great deal of wear, care and repair, as well as fantastic borders and ornamental pieces.
I was able to ship a large portion of the collection back to Starshaped in Chicago so that we could begin to use it as soon as possible. The first piece I wanted to create was a holiday print that incorporated a lot of text, since this would give me the opportunity to use many of the new faces, as well as at least one of the borders. Given the maximum sheet size our proof press can handle (approx. 14x18"), it became apparently quickly that setting up one forme (the type/ornaments/borders and necessary set up pieces) just wouldn't do.
I set up two separate formes (above) to use as much of the most interesting type as possible and considered printing two separate posters (below).
Then I thought it might be fun to run them both in different colors on one piece of paper to see how the type would interact and create new forms in the print. I added some prominence to the border by printing rectangular linoleum blocks behind it. After printing the two formes, I still needed something to act like a focal point and decided the large HAPPY HOLIDAYS would definitely do that.
I added some of the star and snowflake-esque ornaments and printed them in gold. Overall, I was quite happy with the look of the poster and tried a few different paper options to get different effects (below).
A few interesting tidbits...
-One of the corner border pieces was replaced at some point in its life; it's made of copper instead of wood, which was a common way to replace missing or damaged pieces.
-'Feliz Navidad' uses type that is actually cut on a diagonal instead of a straight rectangular block. It even came with it's own spacing to make it fit with whatever else prints alongside it.
-Necessity is the mother of invention; there is no 'H' in the typeface used for 'sleighbells', hence the improvised smaller H with ornaments below it.
-Much of the type was already mortised, meaning that the negative spaces were cut away so that it could fit more closely with the type next to it. This is most obvious (and useful) in 'HOLIDAYS' with the A and Y.
starshaped press
In October, I was fortunate to acquire a large collection of wood type that had previously been buried in the attic of a print shop that served all the printing needs of the small town in which I grew up. Some 70 faces strong, it included some very fine specimens of both elaborate and hard working fonts that have seen a great deal of wear, care and repair, as well as fantastic borders and ornamental pieces.
I was able to ship a large portion of the collection back to Starshaped in Chicago so that we could begin to use it as soon as possible. The first piece I wanted to create was a holiday print that incorporated a lot of text, since this would give me the opportunity to use many of the new faces, as well as at least one of the borders. Given the maximum sheet size our proof press can handle (approx. 14x18"), it became apparently quickly that setting up one forme (the type/ornaments/borders and necessary set up pieces) just wouldn't do.
I set up two separate formes (above) to use as much of the most interesting type as possible and considered printing two separate posters (below).
Then I thought it might be fun to run them both in different colors on one piece of paper to see how the type would interact and create new forms in the print. I added some prominence to the border by printing rectangular linoleum blocks behind it. After printing the two formes, I still needed something to act like a focal point and decided the large HAPPY HOLIDAYS would definitely do that.
I added some of the star and snowflake-esque ornaments and printed them in gold. Overall, I was quite happy with the look of the poster and tried a few different paper options to get different effects (below).
A few interesting tidbits...
-One of the corner border pieces was replaced at some point in its life; it's made of copper instead of wood, which was a common way to replace missing or damaged pieces.
-'Feliz Navidad' uses type that is actually cut on a diagonal instead of a straight rectangular block. It even came with it's own spacing to make it fit with whatever else prints alongside it.
-Necessity is the mother of invention; there is no 'H' in the typeface used for 'sleighbells', hence the improvised smaller H with ornaments below it.
-Much of the type was already mortised, meaning that the negative spaces were cut away so that it could fit more closely with the type next to it. This is most obvious (and useful) in 'HOLIDAYS' with the A and Y.
starshaped press
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