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Two Paperdolls at Brooklyn Craft Central!

Come visit our table this weekend at Brooklyn Craft Central! We'll be selling our letterpress notecards and prints, holiday card sets, screenprinted onesies and toddler T's, and our newest projects: mounted letterpress clocks and monoprints. Check 'em out!

These monoprints were made using a combination of printing techniques. Letterpress printing with polymer, metal blocks, and wood type forms the first layer of the print, which is then fed through a digital printer. Found and scanned imagery, typography, sketches, and photographs interact with the impression from the woodblocks to form a completely unique image. No two are exactly alike!

The letterpress clocks are fully functional and mounted on lightweight wooden bases. 

Our letterpress prints are trimmed to 8" x 10" so they are easily framed and ready to give as a unique holiday gift!

Hamilton Wood Type Museum

{ posted by Scott, the letterpress guy }

Last month I had the privilege to travel to Two Rivers, Wisconsin, and attend a conference at Hamilton Wood Type Museum (thank you Vanessa). People came from around the globe, to learn about wood type, it's history, and also what is going on in the printing world.

Throughout the weekend, we attended presentations and also had hands-on printing demos. It was an all around wonderful trip, and I was able to meet some great people involved in letterpress. I highly recommend visiting if you are ever in Wisconsin, even if you have no interest in printing. It is a very interesting and special place.

Hamilton Wood Type Printing Museum

Below are a few images I captured from my time there.

Creative 404 pages

{author: whitney web desgin/development}

I'm sure we have all come across a 404 page at some point. A 404 page is the default page when a web viewer goes to the wrong place. In most cases it directs the user back to ground zero (your home page). Not only can a 404 page be very helpful, it is a great oppurtunity for web designers and developers to have a little fun! Here are a few examples of some good ones.

FutureOfWebDesign.com

Thomas Bishop

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