New Print

While Laura was having her Southwest roadtrip, Brian was also finding some inspiration from the West with his cool new print.

Bwana Spoons

Brian did these amazing 6 color prints for artist Bwana Spoons bwanards.blogspot.com I will post a better picture soon. Sorry they are so blurry. These are amazing.

Wood type revelation

Maybe it was a year of having a non-functioning press, maybe it was just pure magic... but after Laura made the Franklin BBQ posters, she had a revelation to switch the main focus of her letterpress to wood type posters. Here are the next ones she did for the Low Lows. I love how the hand over inking creates a split fountain effect. And wood type printed on chipboard just looks tough....

Em Space Portland, OR

Laura was never able to get 220 power to her Heidelberg Windmill in our studio space, so it forced her to meet every nice letterpress printer in town.

She printed most of her letterpress at Em Space, just down the street. Em Space www.em-space.org is a letterpress & book arts studio, that teaches classes and provides daily and monthly studio rental. They have vandercooks, C&Ps, tabletop clamshells, more type than you can imagine, nipping presses and much much more. Talk to Rory Sparks. She'll set you up. They also have regular book arts & printing shows and encourage sumbissions from outside of the area.

I can't wait until they are a national chain. Every city should have an Em Space.

The Low Lows art poster

In august we were also lucky enough to print a screen print & letterpress art poster for our friends, The Low Lows, to sell at their performance at this year's All Tomorrow's Parties. Check out their music at www.thelowlows.com

There was a horrible printing plate mess up (my service bureau made the plates incorrectly) but we solved it by overprinting in silver. What a happy accident. Silver fixes everything!

These were printed on Lenox etching paper.

The Portland Studio

We couldn't ask for a bigger or nicer studio with more amazing studio mates like Think Design. Located in SE under the Hawthorne Bridge, just down the street from OMSI and Em Space.

Le Merde's Comic-con prints

Le Merde unveiled a couple new creations at this years Comic-con in San Diego. Top left is a new character named Tango and the far right print is titled "The Pirates of the Lazer Beam". Each print is 7 colors.

VAMPIRE OJO

Another one from artist Martin Ontiveros. This is a limited art print that came with his toy release at this years Comic-con in San Diego.

BARELY HUMAN

Artist John Black's "Barely Human" 3 card set. The first 2 cards are 5 colors and the last is 4. Each card is 3.75"x 5". This is up at Grass Hut Portland, Oregon until the end of August.

RED FANG!!!

Martin Ontiveros designed this one. It's 12.5" x 19" 4 color print on white cover stock. All Hail Red Fang and Martin Ontiveros!!!