The Sound Set event is an amazing line up of hip hop happening this Sunday in the Twin Cities, put on by Rhymsayers Entertainment. We just killed this letterpress poster job, 1000 qty 3 color posters in just over a day. This is some fresh geometric pattern and color designed by Adam Garcia - work [...]
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Also tagged 100lbC, 2009, adam garcia, cost, cylinder, font, geometric, Letterpress, pattern, photo polymer, plate, poptone, poster, powder, rhymesayers, sound set, soundset, spray, the pressure, typography
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Studio On Fire is hiring for a full time Letterpress Operator position becoming available soon. Another of our letterpress gurus is moving onward to grad school. This is a chance to join our unique letterpress team. Other than our insane focus on detail, we are a small and easy going team of designers and artists [...]
By StudioOnFire
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Posted in Letterpress, News
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Also tagged 10x15, 13x18, cylinder, hiring, job, K series, ksba, Letterpress, minneapolis, operator, position, printer, printing, Windmill, work
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The esteemed fellows at Wilderness in Portland sent us an unusually simple business card for letterpress printing. Rather than load up the card with four telephone numbers, an email, a fax, a twitter, etc - they all simply share the same card. A nice solution for keeping cost down too. Wilderness is the new design [...]
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Also tagged 13 x 18, 220lb, business card, color, cotton, dark, DDC, Draplin, Field Notes, flood, Letterpress, letterpress services, lettra, Nakamoto, OR, pearl, Phemister, portland, printer, printing, solid, stock, typography, white, Wilderness, Windmill
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Atmosphere is heading out for their When God Gives You Ugly tour. We just finished a special edition letterpress poster designed by Keith Wiliams. It features a “1950’s Diner Vampire Fight Scene” watercolor painting by Minneapolis native Michael Gaughan. (If you check out Michael’s website, be sure and see the collection of guitar sculptures. But [...]
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Posted in Letterpress, Printing Tips and Tricks
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Also tagged 1950's, ant, atmosphere, cylinder, entertainment, fight, format, halftone, hip hop, image, large, Letterpress, line, micheal gaughan, minneapolis, music, poster, printing, rhymesayers, scene, screen, slug, tour, vampire, when god gives you ugly
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This is part two showing the production of business cards on our Heidelberg Windmill. Be sure and see Part 1 showing the finished cards.
We start with a high resolution film negative. The negative is used to expose the plastic plates. The plates are attached to an aluminum base and placed into the press. The press [...]
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Posted in Letterpress, Printing Tips and Tricks
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Also tagged 10 x 15, 10x15, blind, business cards, card, fabien barrel, france, fred dauzat, french, graphic exchange, heavy, impression, ink, Letterpress, letterpress services, limited press, minneapolis, minnesota, paper, press room, printer, printing, so goods, stock, thick, Windmill
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Coming soon to an alphabet near you is a typographic mash up. Once again Spunk Design Machine created a simply amazing poster, this time for Chank. Be sure and check him out as he tours the design community.
And getting smashed comes easy for paper on a letterpress. Hot off our big Heidelberg cylinder press, these [...]
By StudioOnFire
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Posted in Letterpress
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Also tagged chank, cylinder, Design, ksba, large format, Letterpress, letterpress services, machine, poster, printing, spunk, type, typography
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Here’s a tip for getting some letterpress roller coasting love. We take something into our press room from the pitchers mound - a rosin bag. You can get them at your local sporting goods store and they should cost only a few dollars. A rosin bag will change your life when printing on a Heidelberg [...]
Vintage machines live or die depending on our care of their lubrication needs. Certain areas on the Heidelberg Windmill presses have lots small oil points - like the gripper head and the paper feed. It is all to easy to over oil and end up with drips oozing everywhere, not cool when you are trying [...]
By StudioOnFire
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Posted in Letterpress
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Also tagged 10 x 15, 10x15, 13 x 18, 13x18, Letterpress, lube, lubrication, oil, oiling, precision, press, tips, Windmill
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