Released in Europe in April, the BirdDog Press has been published in a 240 page, full-color, hard cover book!!! Our paper feedsack quilts and woodtype baby envelope book were featured. Yay!!!!! Can you tell I’m excited? I just got my copy yesterday, so I think this means it is available in the US now, too! I am honored to be on the pages next to heroes and colleagues like Studio on Fire, Sycamore Street Press and Stitch Design Co. Now, that’s Impressive! Here are the details:

Gestalten specializes in developing content for aficionados of cutting-edge visual culture worldwide. Always working directly with talented young designers and artists, Gestalten brings a deep understanding of visual culture on a global level to whatever we do and remains firmly committed to presenting visual trends with timeless substance. The company has 40 staff members throughout offices in Berlin, London, New York and Tokyo.

ps. Yet another reminder that letterpress is enjoying a huge resurgence, there are two other books coming out this summer showcasing some wonderful letterpress design as well. Out of the UK, Rotovision is releasing Reinventing Letterpress by Charlotte Rivers, and friend, Brandon Mise of Blue Barnhouse in Asheville, NC has written Adventures in Letterpress for Random House.

Happy Friday! I have been off schedule with the blog for quite some time now and honestly this will probably continue throughout the summertime. The Lyons Open Studio Tour was last weekend and I am now trying to nail down which weekend indie craft shows to commit to for the rest of the summer. In the meantime, if you missed seeing the BirdDog Press on the tour, you can still catch a glimpse of another new direction with my feedsack pattern passion, more of an artprint style – affordable art in the form of little scenes of eco-crafted paper quilt collages. My first coffee shop gallery show is on display for the month of June at my favorite local Bhakti Chai hangout, The Stone Cup!

We had a great show in NYC this year, so many exciting things happened. I’m not even going to try to compete with the greats. Here is a listing of all of the wonderful National Stationery Show coverage.

MINT design blog : quite the proprietress of paper herself, just see Hello Tenfold, thanks for the feature, Ellie!

Broadway Paper : check out the swag Kate scored at the show, our first order ever came from this lovely shop in Milwaukee 2 years ago.

Parcel Post : another great shop from Venice Beach, Urbanic, did a little coverage on their Parcel Post blog.

Oh So Beautiful Paper : Nole may have us all beat on the NSS coverage. We are a part of Part 11! After all, she is the epitome of all things paper.

But wait! There’s more! Paper Crave, as you can imagine chose some great greetings and more to feature on their blog. I loved Cry Baby Ink‘s angle with documenting all of the business cards she collected. And to end on a lovely paper loving friend, Carina, of Crow & Canary has a great take on the show as well, she obviously loves patterns as much as we do here at BirdDog Press!

ps. HUGE thanks for the awesome photos goes to Amy Stocklein of Lucky Bee Press