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PaperWheel Press on Etsy has some cool letterpress cards to give to your nerdy friends or loved ones.

Buy these, and other non-dorky cards at PaperWheel’s Etsy shop!

Studio on Fire just launched a new website and it’s fantastic! The letterpress shop has a very well-known blog of their work, Beast Pieces, and now you can find that and all their other work on the new website. Really nicely done. See the site and get some great design inspiration here.

via the pressure is good for you

To continue the trend of hilarious and offbeat V-Day cards recently, KURO emailed us recently to share their awesome Valentine’s Day cards with us. They really allow you to cut the bullshit and say what you really mean when you give her the teddy bear and box of chocolates.

These cards are beautifully made, with dirty thoughts on them. A combination that’s a win in my book.

Buy these cards at their Etsy shop!

While searching for something to brighten up my Friday during an oh-so-stressful week of work, I came across this beauty from Bella Figura.

Ummm…hello, you gorgeous thing, you.

Hold on a tic while I wipe the drool off my keyboard, and lift my jaw back to its normal position… No words, I just want to touch. Slowly drag my finger across the page, enjoy, then maybe repeat a few times. The calligraphy, the paper, and did you see that rsvp card?! I’m a huge sucker for anything in the card/invite/stationary/general make-your-day-with-this-simple-little-thing arena (as you’ll come to see) – but letterpress work? It makes me swoon. Every. Single. Time. This rendered me speechless. Anyone that knows me knows that is quite a feat.

So, hat’s off to you, Bella Figura, for taking away any words I could use to describe your work.

Check out their printing and general loveliness at www.bellafigura.com. Prepare for lovely. Make sure to check out the whole site – from the designers they hand-picked to do custom designs, their absolute, die-hard love of the craft, to their willingness to bend over backwards to give you just what you want.

By the way, I’m new here — I’m Gwen, and I hope you enjoy this and future beauties I plan to bring your way :)

A new documentary, Typeface, about the Hamilton Wood Type Museum (www.woodtype.org) tells the story of the famous wood type manufacturer which closed in 1985, and is now being used as a museum. It is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, Hamilton’s collection is one of the premier wood type collections in the world.

See the website with more information, screenings, photos & videos: http://typeface.kartemquin.com.

Anyone up for a road trip to Wisconsin?

Bittersweet Ink is a salty collection of greeting cards spanning traditional holidays and little-celebrated occasions for “when you care enough to tell it like it is.” These 4-Bar size folded cards are letterpress-printed in black on 100# cover Neenah Esse in white.

They are wicked affordable too! $3 each. Go buy here!

Thanks to Gwen Bucknell for the tip :)

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Check out this absolutely delicious identity for A Cowboy’s Dream, a luxury bed & breakfast in Nevada. This is what happens when you let a designer (designed by KURO Interactive) with taste work magic, with what I assume to be a huge budget :).

See all the pieces here. The A Cowboy’s Dream website is also quite nice.

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Studio on Fire have created a stunning 2010 Letterpress desktop calendar. This calendar is letterpress printed with four colors on a cotton-blend stock, each month beautifully illustrated by selected designers the world over. The best part? Every penny of each sale (minus the pesky shipping) will go towards the UNICEF fund for Haiti. From Studio on Fire:

Dear Design and Printing Friends,

As a father of three young children I can not imagine the reality that is Haiti right now. Our studio would like to help. We are donating 100% of our 2010 letterpress calendar sales starting today to the UNICEF fund for Haiti.

You can buy a calendar on our studio site for $30. We’ll direct all accumulated funds, less your shipping cost to Unicef early next week.

Or you can support UNICEF directly at their site.

Thanks for your consideration,

Ben Levitz

Principal, Studio On Fire

You’d buy this even if it weren’t for a good cause, so jump on it. BUY IT HERE.

Thanks to the gang at Northcoast Zeitgeist, out of Kent, Ohio, for sending us one of their WORK! 2010 Calendars during their giveaway! It is currently gracing my desk at work:

The calendars were created as a collaboration between Northcoast Zeitgeist and Cranky Pressman (out of Salem, Ohio). Cranky Pressman are giving away 50 free calendars here, so run… don’t walk, and see if there are any left!

I’m fans of both of these Ohio companies, so bookmark their sites and follow them on Twitter:
www.northcoastzeitgeist.com — @nczeitgeist
www.crankypressman.com — @CrankyPressman

Please excuse me as I clean the drool off my desk. This stunning set of letterpress goodies and shiny golden pieces has my heart all a flutter. The elements for an open-house party for Minneapolis-based retail branding agency, FAME, showed up on FPO this morning and I fell in love. The “dive bar” theme for the party was carried on through everything from the invitation, posters and bingo cards to the nametags, styrofoam cups and coasters. The entire set is just too cool and I can only imagine how great the party was! See more after the jump or check out the entire set (highly recommended) on FPO.

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