Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection

Another fun thing about switching over to wood type poster printing is that it gave Laura the excuse to visit David Shields and the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection held by the University Texas at Austin. Laura plans to do special printing and research projects in the coming year to better educate herself about American Wood Type. http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/a_ah/rrk/index.php

Back to Austin

While we loved Portland and our beautiful studio, 13% unemployment drove us back to the loving arms (and jobs) in Austin. We both plan to come back to Portland for residencies and printing jobs... but for now it is better to be in Austin until the economy turns around.

We will be posting our new studio address soon. And we were so glad to make it back in time for the Franklin BBQ opening... yay!!

Franklin BBQ

Our dear friends Aaron & Stacy Franklin opened a BBQ Trailer in Austin, TX... finally!!! Aaron has been having the most well attended BBQ parties for years (over 150 at the last one I went to) and we were psyched to trade some printing for some pulled pork & brisket. The cards were designed by our friend Blair Richardson www.littlemulestudio.com and just printed on regular ol chipboard. The wood type was hand inked and borrowed from the amazing collection at Em Space.

Bovine Sign

The inspiration for the sign outside our shop. Brian changed the logo a bit and then screenprinted on wood.

...We moved to Portland, Oregon!!!!!

.... the other big xmas present was that we moved to Portland, Oregon!!

We will be back in Austin quite a bit to collaborate with our favorite designers & artists. We couldn't resist the lure of being closer to family & immersing ourselves in the amazing art community in Portland. And the coffee is FANTASTIC!

The Press of my dreams

December brought the best present of all... Laura finally got the press of her letterpressy dreams... a Heidelberg Windmill red ball !!!!

Hopefully it will be up and running in the next 2 months, as soon as we find a space to accommodate it, because....

Our First Job

While we were still moving in, Brian printed our first job... a wedding invitation designed by our good friend Pal Moore for Kyle, producer non-pareil at Shiny Object, and Kelly, former owner of that amazing store Paper & Ink... how could we ask for better clients??---- lk

We have a studio!

We moved into an amazing warehouse space in South Austin just off of South Congress by Penn Field.