Retail! Lots of letterpress folks coming.
This weekend we’ll be participating in the second annual Chicago Stationery Fest. Tix sold out faster than the average Tay Tay concert but we’re adding all the new stuff to our online shop if stationery is your thing. #letterpress
Happy International Women’s Day to everyone but the jagoffs who overturned Roe v Wade, which is when I printed this.
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Stuff I have to do, but make it fancy. #letterpress
Desperately manifesting Kate Bush today. www.starshaped.com/8x10prints/f...
Think we should all just go Nickel this while we can.
Chicago has inspired dozens of projects but my fave is this print, The City is my Religion, which features a ‘church’ built of personal, physical spaces. Multiple layers of ornaments printed are to resemble stained glass. #letterpress
We love our membership!
19th century catchword making its debut in the shop. I have dozens of these but finding the right one to match the mood of a project and make it sing is always a challenge. This one is paired with typefaces about 40 years older. #letterpress
Hold my coffee while I run to get this.
Please do. We need joy. And tiny books.
Looks like our notes in the kid’s medical receipts 😂
I really love these. Used them on a print this fall. Beautifully designed!
Virgin Wood Type does as well.
Disparate ornaments that play well together. #letterpress
Having a teen in my house I can say… they’re weirdly into it? He even hosted a beach rave last summer.
Never too late to start
This works for us widows too. Love it.
And the type forms.
Current Print Club postcard is a boombox made with geometric metal & wood type ornaments and printed in 3 colors. #letterpress
Having seen it firsthand in my kid’s hospital, I can attest this is true. Sometimes they’re fashioned to be converse-adjacent.
In metal, it’s just straight up 72.
Digital sizing is based on the original measurements for metal type. 12 points in a pica, 6 picas in an inch. More formally established around 1878.
Arboret is a beautiful, interchangeable ornament/type combination that is thankfully built on the modern point system of measurement for quick setting. #letterpress
New Chi skyline on press. Especially pleased with a Bean made of parentheses. #letterpress
Complex new form set for a print commissioned by the @ravenswood-chicago.bsky.social. #letterpress
Uh, yes. Definitely.
We got a lot of metal for you. No pressure. 😘
