Filed under: BirdDog Press, Friends, Handmade Revolution, Letterpress | Tags: custom framing, Letterpress, Mon Atelier, Valerie Combs, vintage, Wedding invitation, wood type
Speaking of weddings, we have collaborated our way to a unique wedding keepsake with our studio neighbor, Valerie Combs of Mon Atelier, who is a brilliant bespoke framing artist. Letterpress matting, french line details and handmade frames are her specialty and preserve wedding stationery suites with heirloom quality. The paper goods are mounted in a shadow box style and the border hand painted on an archival rag mat to set off the typography-heavy design. Then, using vintage wood type, we pressed the wedding date into the mat and finally the frame was custom constructed with a distressed finish to complete the ensemble.
This has been such a successful collaboration, we have begun crafting a line of photography-ready frames with letterpress patterned mats. Stay tuned for more on these designs soon.
Really loving metallics on chipboard this year. If you still haven’t ordered your holiday cards, the deadline is November 30th! UPDATE : Due to overwhelming response, I have put this year’s designs up in my shop : http://shop.birddogpress.com/category/holiday-cards
We can send you the letterpress, personalized cards for you to add your own photo or we’re available for a full-service option including ordering and attaching your chosen photo, printing your return address, even printing your labels!
… how to get to Sesame Street? Power of the printed word featuring a lost dog poster made via letterpress on Sesame Street.
So, Grover was my favorite, what about you?
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Craft Biz, Friends, Handmade Revolution, Inspirations, Letterpress | Tags: 2010 calendar, Etsy, Letterpress, Satsuma Press, Seesaw designs
I don’t design or print a calendar as of yet, so each year I’m on the lookout for a fabulous fellow printer who does. There is some stiff competition out there and let me just give kudos to them all for already having them ready for the taking in October! This year I have my lovely friend, Lynn’s Satsuma Press calendar on the wall. This year, I believe the Seesaw designs calendar will win my heart. I just love the combination of colors and shapes. I like to spread the love and support as many friends as I can by buying handmade gifts on Etsy and keeping it local or handmade, or making it myself when I can.
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Friends, Inspirations, Letterpress | Tags: Jud Bergeron, Letterpress, poetry, Sculptural Pursuit, sculpture
A third friend, who happens to live in Boulder, Colorado came to me earlier this year with a copy of this magazine and an idea. We worked together using a combination of vintage wood type, photopolymer and handset metal type, echoing the purposeful placement of letters by both sculptor and poet, to create a letterpress manifestation of the original “I Will Wait Quietly” poem by Bill Reynolds. A plantable seed paper was chosen to carry the words of this dear friend.
If you live in San Francisco, I would encourage you to not wait quietly, but to go see this sculpture exhibit! Obviously the sculpture credit goes to Jud Bergeron. Eric, I would like to thank you for sharing this story and this personal project with me.
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Feedsacks, Letterpress | Tags: Feedsack of the Month, Feedsacks, Letterpress, stationery
If you’re not a card-carrying member of the {letterpress} Feedsack of the Month Club – FoM – well, now you’ll know what you’re missing. This is a little peek from July’s edition, it included letter-writing stationery customized with wood type initials of each members name in a cheerful shade of yellow and two fun stories on the history & lore of feedsacks. It was a big one!
*No jelly biscuits were included in the package, although, that gives me an idea.
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Handmade Revolution, Letterpress | Tags: class, demo, Letterpress, photopolymer, printing, workshop
We get many, many requests for studio tours and class inquiries. With any luck, starting next year, we will do more classes & workshops of all kinds in the renovated space next door to us, calling on all sorts of local artists and art forms. Until then, I thought I would give it a go on a smaller scale for those who have been patiently waiting. This Saturday, the 19th, we will host a fairly informal Press-Demo/Mini-Workshop at the studio. There is limited space available, so let us know if your interested, ASAP!
*photography by Andrew HydeFiled under: BirdDog Press, Design, Letterpress | Tags: Letterpress, logo design, Pickafig Photography, stickers
I am extra proud of this one. I did everything, start to finish from the logo design, to the letterpress printing of these stickers! I even took these photographs of the finished product. I’m still not exactly sure how Carrie of Pickafig Photography of Nashville found me, but I’m sure glad she did.
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Letterpress | Tags: giveaway, Letterpress, poppytalk, printers, swap
Wow! Check it out over on PoppyTalk!
