Beast Pieces » print http://www.beastpieces.com Studio On Fire // Design & Letterpress Blog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:28:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Buzzed & Fuzzed Print Set http://www.beastpieces.com/2011/12/buzzed-fuzzed-print-set/ http://www.beastpieces.com/2011/12/buzzed-fuzzed-print-set/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:01:23 +0000 admin http://www.beastpieces.com/?p=4460 Still working on your holiday shopping? No worries, we’re here for you. Just this morning we added yet another new item to our shop, the Buzzed & Fuzzed Print Set. Give them as a pair or break them apart to give to your boozy best friend and highly caffeinated little sister.

Printed with three inks (brown, yellow and a tonal warm gray) on Wausau Royal Compliments Natural White 100c, each print measures 12.625″ x 9.625.”

Just want one? Too bad, they only come as a set. Also, be sure to follow us on Twitter for an exclusive discount promo code.

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]]> http://www.beastpieces.com/2011/12/buzzed-fuzzed-print-set/feed/ 0 New SOF website with expanded shop! http://www.beastpieces.com/2011/12/new-sof-website-with-expanded-shop/ http://www.beastpieces.com/2011/12/new-sof-website-with-expanded-shop/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:30:57 +0000 admin http://www.beastpieces.com/?p=4186 You may have noticed on your way to purchase a 2012 Studio On Fire Letterpress Calendar that studioonfire.com has a completely overhauled look! We’re pretty proud of the new site and have plans to add more features in the coming weeks.

Being the paper-oriented people that we are, our friends over at westwerk design handled the creation of the site for us. Not only were they were great to work with, but their studio is conveniently located just upstairs from our basement workspace.

Along with the new site is additional merchandise for the store! All of our classic items are still available, as well as the 2012 calendar and several new posters.

Above: Artisan Activist Poster, Crane Lettra Flo White 110C, 13″ x 19″, 2 Color Split Fountain on 2 Separate Plates + 1 Tonal Varnish

 

Above: Sunshine Poster, Crane Lettra Flo White 110c, 12″ x 16″, 3 Color Split Fountain

 

Above: Matter Into Spirit Poster, Crane Lettra Flo White 110c, 13″ x 20″, 2 Color Split Fountain + Blind Impression

 

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]]> http://www.beastpieces.com/2011/12/new-sof-website-with-expanded-shop/feed/ 0 Target: Design United http://www.beastpieces.com/2011/10/target-design-united/ http://www.beastpieces.com/2011/10/target-design-united/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:25:24 +0000 admin http://www.beastpieces.com/?p=4033 Earlier this year we were asked to participate in Target’s Design United campaign. Target made use of the massive street level windows of their corporate location to showcase their bullseye logo as interpreted by 51 local artists. We were thrilled to be included and submitted a dozen prints for them to choose from. The display was up from April to October in downtown Minneapolis.

Our process started with a hand drawn mehndi inspired pattern that we scanned in and cleaned up to create a photopolymer plate. We also created a plate of the solid Target logo which we used to lay down some background colors, allowing us to utilize the transparent nature of the inks and achieve some great overprinting. Our pressman went to town and applied most of the inks by hand directly to the plates or paper, resulting in dozens of completely unique pieces. Some of our favorites are below, along with some shots of the installation that we took while it was up this summer.

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A word about letterpress poster image size… We get a lot of designers that are surprised by the cost to print at this size. This is not silk screen printing and comparatively, the costs are nowhere near similar. Printing poster size things with letterpress can be an expensive adventure. One way to keep the cost down is to limit the image area since plating is charged by the square inch. (For example, a single plate at 18 x 24 will run about $250, just in plating costs for EACH color) On this poster even though the paper trim size is 18 x 24 the image area is only 11.5 x 16 making plating costs a bit more reasonable.

See a previous poster we printed for the Rollergirls here.

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]]> http://www.beastpieces.com/2011/02/badges-for-brusies-rollergirls-poster/feed/ 4 Sozi And Friends Letterpress Print http://www.beastpieces.com/2010/12/sozi-and-friends-letterpress-print/ http://www.beastpieces.com/2010/12/sozi-and-friends-letterpress-print/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:40:25 +0000 admin http://www.beastpieces.com/?p=3401 This is a new letterpress print from Rilla Alexander. She’s been a part of our annual calendar project for several years, so we were super excited to be part of her Sozi character launch this month. This beauty as well as other well crafted Sozi items are available in her shop and also at Collette through the end of December.

We letterpress printed an edition of 100 in red ink on Pearl White Crane Lettra 110lb C. Actual size is 40cm x 30cm. Get one while they last.

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