Showing results 1–8 of 36 for the tag: letterpress
Last night at the Art Directors Club gallery in NYC, New York Writes Itself presented the first view of the New York Types exhibition. The sold-out show featured posters of words heard on the city streets brought to life in letterpress. While sipping vino and in creative company, I couldn’t help but snap photos of…
John Dyer Baizley
In honor of our friend Mikey Burton announcing he’s going out on his own into the wilderness of freelance, I wanted to share some of his work. We’ve posted a little of his work before (including this cool letterpress video)… but his work is really fucking good, so it’s worth another post. Good luck dude,…
Late last week Cranky Pressman sent me one of their 2011 calendars. It was a nice surprise to receive mail like that after working a 16 hour day. The only mail I get is usually someone asking for money. This is the third calendar Cranky has produced in as many years, 2009 by Mikey Burton…
A revolution? Perhaps. Cool? Definitely. …some creative people have reclaimed the toy’s initial spirit of enterprise by re-purposing the blocks in ways Lego probably never expected. Like graphic designers Sam Cox and Justin LaRosa. They’ve teamed up as Physical Fiction to bring Lego to the letterpress. They use smooth tiles as pixels in their video-game-like…
Last year we posted about Studio on Fire’s gorgeous 2010 calendar, and for 2011 they made another great piece. The 2011 Studio on Fire Letterpress Calendar is a series of 12 letterpressed cards, each created by different designers: Adam Garcia, Brian Gunderson, Jessica Hische, We Make It So, Aesthetic Apparatus, and of course Studio On…
Cameron Moll, a recent speaker at the Future of Web Design conference in NYC, gave a quick run-through of one of his letterpress posters that re-imagines the coliseum in Rome. His attention to detail is incredible. The impressive artwork goes as far as to distinguish the slight differences in original stone and brick, Roman numerals over…
Zeichen Press is Fran & Jen Shea, a Minneapolis-based letterpressing duo. Their collection ranges from postcards to mixtape cases. They combine vintage art, bold, simple design with wit and humor. Well done. Zeichen’s alphabet posters are available to purchase at Room & Board. You can also shop online here.
