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so that says california. we’ve been sending these new & exciting places (boston, long beach, seattle, tacoma, australia [almost]) with
many more yet to embark.
get in on the fun! hee hee

thank you
franz,
ruthefurd / william,
elizabeth,
katy,
tracy,
not andrew,
selena,
monika,
and jacob

And So

Here they are. Better yet is that they are for SALE [ here ].

More colors and variations at the aforementioned link plus a few
limited unique pieces.

Leaves, Mothers & Mountains

Aaron Bloom & Chelsey Scheffe have made
some things this summer in letterpress class :

Pathless Wood, © bloom | scheffe print

Mother, © bloom | scheffe print

It Is, © bloom | scheffe print

Photographs by Chelsey Scheffe aid of Chloe’s camera.

Pathless Wood made possible by Lance Kagey’s hand press and garden.
Thank you.

bloom | scheffe print sounds fancy. Well it is. And it isn’t because it’s just us, Aaron and Chelsey, two graphic design students at Seattle Central who decided a long time ago that they loved letterpress, messed with it on their own in various locations and met for a collaboration only this summer after having had a year of school together. That’s it. Questions? We’ll answer them. Perhaps we’ll get to more collabs next summer. Until then, thanks for looking.

about these prints | The first is a highly scientific process too complicated to describe at this juncture, just know a few leaves were harmed in the process of this poster. The second, we have no idea how it came into our heads but thanks to Ryan, we stopped calling it a tractor and gave it proper credit : backhoe front loader. The type is hand done, rendered on a polymer plate. The third is the same as the fourth, only we went crazy. So we’ll be finishing this last one, today actually only changing up the color scheme a bit. The mountains were carved by Aaron and the sky by Chelsey on linoleum block. I think I only forgot to mention the paper stock. Not a chance.

Tim Biskup + Wilkintie

Here’s this month’s print from Wilkintie. It’s lovely, as always.

Print-tastic

I’ve decided to devote an entire wall, maybe two, to posters. Ever since I came to this conclusion, I’ve been searching for prints that tickle my fancy. And I thought I would share. My friends, feast your eyes on these:

And, my very favorite:

What to do now, you ask? Simple: go home and start your own poster wall.

Wilkintie & Klaus Haapaniemi

Here’s this month’s lovely print.

I also recently discovered that Wilkintie has an Etsy shop – admire and purchase discounted prints here.

In The Studio: Beautiful Angle

Beautiful Angle is incredible. Tacoma’s guerilla letterpress duo, made up of Tom Llewellyn and Lance Kagey, have been plastering the city’s telephone poles for six years now. We are privileged enough to know both Tom and Lance, and are proud to bring you the tour of their studio.

Lance takes down posters that have dried.

The inspiration wall, including work by local and famous artists.

Lance and Chelsey discuss a poster design for an upcoming event.

The press bed.

Lance’s ink-mixing station sits atop cases and cases of type. The clothespins hold posters for drying.

A smaller inspiration board.

A face of wooden type and a guide to the case.

The X from Beautiful Angle’s most recent Christmas broadside.

A shelf of paper, misprints and surplus posters.

Sometimes tweezers are the easiest way to handle a small piece of lead for letterspacing.

Chelsey inks a locked bed of type.

Lance runs some lovely paperstock through his smallest press.

The piece printed on chipboard. It’s all about the impression.

A cabinet of Beautiful Angle masterpieces.

A Lance Kagey original from 1983.

Studio lights above the largest press.

See the entire collection and buy broadsides at beautifulangle.com.

Wilkintie Prints Again

A new Wilkintie print is here! Hooray!

If you have never heard of Wilkintie, or missed our previous posts on the duo behind it, check them out at wilkintie.com. Totally worth a look.

New Wilkinite Print

Yay! I really want this one.

Get yours at wilkintie.com.

Chandler O’Leary

I met Chandler O’Leary before I knew who she was.

She was cheerful, and rosy. She shook my hand, and took an interest in my amateur work, even though it was my first paid and complete letterpress project. I felt that if we grew to know each other better, she would be the person to invite me over to bake on a whim.

It was later that I learned she had attended Rhode Island School of Design, and owns a letterpress studio called Anagram. In 2005, she won a Minnesota Book Award. Her work is exhibited all over the country.

In a word, impressive.

She recently moved from Minnesota to Tacoma, Washington, so if you’re natives like we are, you may have the opportunity to see a show, buy a print, or meet her in person.

I just love this stuff.

See the rest of it at anagram-press.com.