Day Moon Press

November 17, 2024November 17, 2024

Holiday Season: November 30th Open House & Art Markets

Day Moon Press open house & art market with Beacon Arts: Saturday, November 30th, 12-6 pm. The letterpress studio is open for Small Business Saturday with visiting artists, holiday shopping, hot tea, and friendly conversation. 3320 Beacon Ave S.

Hello everyone—we’ve got a busy schedule of events coming up this season, including our annual Open House & Art Market! This year we’ll be clearing off our work tables and putting on a maker’s market on Saturday, November 30th, 12-6 pm. Come visit the studio, chat with us about print, and more than that! browse the works of these seven guest artists, brought together by Beacon Arts’ programming:

@shareandtag3friendsoriwillcurse I Lemonfish Atelier I Manic Pixie Dream Squirrel I Kelly Brenner I Jewelry by Yali I Gretchen Siegrist Clay I Blue Lou Art

Day Moon Press will also be tabling at several other markets in the next few weeks:

Tacoma is for Lovers Artist Craft Fair: Saturday, November 23rd, 11-4. At King's Books, 218 St. Helens Ave, Tacoma, WA

Tacoma Winter Market: Sunday, December 1st, 11-5 pm. Sons of Norway, 1106 S 15th St.

Saturday, November 23rd, 11-4 pm: Tacoma is for Lovers Artist Craft Fair at King’s Books in Tacoma

Sunday, December 1st, 11-5 pm: Tacoma Winter Market at Sons of Norway, hosted by Midsommar Bakery

Saturday, December 7th, 10 am-5 pm: Holiday Arts & Crafts Sale at the Mount Baker Community Club

Saturday & Sunday, December 14th & 15th, 2-5 pm each day: Holiday Pop-Up at The Grocery Studios

Come see us & all the other lovely makers this winter!

November 2, 2023November 17, 2024

November Open House & Art Market

Our annual November sale approaches! As do several other art sales and events in the area—some repeat favorites, some new, all of which we are very excited to do and will thankfully get us out of the house. Come see us at any of them!! One, some, all—

November 2nd-4th: the Pickering Barn Craft Show at the restored 1800s barn in Issaquah, 1730 10th Ave NW. Open Thursday and Friday 10-6, Saturday 10-5.

Saturday, November 18th: Backyard Holiday Market at Gretchen Siegrist Clay’s beautiful studio! Handmade goods: ceramics, prints, jewelry, embroidery, fiber arts, and more; and gathering winter supplies for our unhoused neighbors: bring anything you can of tents, sleeping bags, warm coats & pants, hats & gloves, tarps, hand & foot warmers, etc.

Sunday, November 19th: So happy to be back at the Tacoma Is For Lovers fair at King’s Books, 11-4! (We will only be there Sunday but they’re also open 11-4 on Saturday the 18th, with different artists!)

Saturday, December 9th, 6-9, AND Sunday the 10th, 2-5: Delighted to head just down the hill again to The Grocery Studios for their Holiday pop-up.

Come support local artists! See what we have, and more than once—we pack different things for different spaces, so maybe you’ll see something surprising the second time.

November 17, 2022October 11, 2024

November Open Studio & Art Market!

It’s time for our November sale! This Small Business Saturday, November 26th, 12-6 pm, we’re open to the neighborhood to come on in, shop letterpress-printed goods and handmade book arts, and see what our kind of working printshop looks like. In setting up for this year’s market we were uh surprised! to remember that 2022 is the 40-year anniversary of the business moving into the 3320 address.

40 years, and we’ve still been here less half the building’s lifespan (built in 1930). Lots of things have changed around here but here’s a couple bricks that have stayed in place.

Leading up to the 26th we’ve been working on some new things, some reprints, some modified reprints—a sneak preview of a print I might still be working on day-of.

a photo of a small pop-up snowglobe card. Printed on dark green card stock, it illustrates a snowy tree in white, with falling snow and a star topper in silver. The card is cut so that 3/4th of a circle will pop out of the card base, standing up like a snowglobe. The text of Emily Dickenson's "The Snow" is printed in 6 pt. type in silver, inside the base and on the back side of the globe.

a photo of one of the forms of handset type used to print the snowglobe card. This form is the bulk of the text of Emily Dickinson's "The Snow," set in 6 pt. Della Robbia.

a photo of a small foldover notecard. An arrangement of stars from the constellation Draco is letterpress-printed on the front side, with silver stars on a navy blue paper with pale white flecks. Three of the stars are labeled with their Bayer designation, and on the back side of the notecard each labeled star is referenced with its name.

a photo of the second printing of a notecard, comparing first and second printing. It's an illustration of a crow, wearing a Santa hat, subtitled SANTA CAWS in scratchy writing.

a close up photo of an in-progress print. A pink and grey pattern of textured squares is lettepress-printed through a hand-cut mask so that, despite the border materials covering a very regular grid, the print is only hit by pressure and ink in an irregular area. The general silhouette of the printed area is a piece of clothing.

We’re also partnering again with Beacon Arts’ South End Public Market, so there will be several other artists & artisans local to south Seattle selling their craft in our weird, hastily-cleaned workspace. Check in with Beacon Arts to see updates about each vendor, as well as SEPM’s monthly, year-round pop-up art markets!

Masks required in the shop, please.

November 11, 2021October 11, 2024

November Art Market, 12-6, Saturday the 20th!

Hello all! What year is it. How long has it been. Anyway, we used to do a yearly holiday sale in our shop, and we’re ready to bring that back but a little different this time:

With the South End Public Market arm of Beacon Arts we’re putting on a pop-up market of local artists, selling prints, sculpture, jewelry, body products, paintings, book arts, and more! SEPM is putting on monthly art markets around Beacon Hill, so keep up with them for future events, and applications for vending opportunities. On November 20th, come to our shop to support South End artists, and grab a hot drink and snack in the backyard to fundraise for Beacon Arts!

Masks required inside the shop, please, vaccinated or unvaccinated.

Letterpress cards, prints, and book arts from Day Moon Press, Nottapixie Press, Waterland Press, and True Bug Press

July 29, 2021October 11, 2024

Open for drop-ins & retail shopping!

Our front doors are currently open for drop-ins & retail shopping, and in accordance with our state’s official recommendation, we ask that you wear a mask inside, even if you are COVID-vaccinated! Our hours are back to our usual 12-5, Monday-Saturday, or by appointment outside of that.

Be safe & healthy & responsible, everyone!

December 7, 2020October 11, 2024

Annual online shop clean-up!

Our Beacon Hill shop is still closed to drop-ins and will be for the rest of the year—stay safe!—but we are available for custom work. You can also come to us for retail cards, gifts, etc., by shopping one-on-one, appointment only, or through our Etsy store! Local customers are always welcome to forgo shipping and pick up an Etsy order by appointment as well, just send a message with the order.

I’ve put away spring and summer things to make room for seasonal items, and added something new I’ve been working on: re-loadable journals.

The covers are at the moment almost all unique, wrapped in decorative Japanese papers from the 1930s or the 70s, depending. There are several varieties of content pages available (lined, blank, task manager), and the wirebound contents of these journals are replaceable, changeable, etc., whatever helps you stay organized!

October 23, 2020October 11, 2024

We are still printing!

Our front doors are closed to drop-ins until further notice, for the safety & health of both our customers and ourselves, but! We are still working.

For custom letterpress printing, we are available to discuss projects by phone or email, with samples transferred by photo, contactless pickup, or appointment.

For retail cards, prints, broadsides, journals, etc.: we are on Etsy, although that is not a complete list of everything we sell. If you would like to find something not on the list, something specific, or schedule an appointment for one-on-one in-person shopping (masks and all), please call or email us!

January 21, 2020October 11, 2024

Tacoma is for Lovers Valentine’s Craft Fair

We’re going to be at King’s Books for their Valentine’s Craft Fair on Saturday, Feb. 8th, 11 am — 4 pm! The event is also open on Sunday the 9th, and there will be different artists each day, so check the event page or the Facebook page to see who will be there, selling what, and when!

December 5, 2019October 11, 2024

December Art Events

Oh, boy, we’re BUSY the next few weeks—

Saturday, December 7th! We’re tabling at the Arts & Crafts Fair of the Mt. Baker Home Tour — tickets for the home tour are a major fundraiser for the Mt. Baker Community Center, although the art fair in the Clubhouse is completely free to attend & peruse! (10 am to 4 pm)

Friday, December 13th! The School of Visual Concepts is having a FREE talk & poetry reading by their current artist-in-residence, Claudia Castro Luna—she’ll be discussing her letterpress printed artist’s book One River, a Thousand Voices:

There will ALSO be a letterpress pop-up shop! We & several other local letterpress printers will have tables there. Again, the event itself is free! But please do RSVP for a chair at the reading. (6 pm – 9 pm)

Saturday, December 14th! Our studio-mate Darius X and his Linocut Night School friends are doing a pop-up sale here in the shop! Come out and support local queer printmakers, see & buy their work!!

Also, there’ll be a make your own print station, and snacks & drinks. (12 pm – 6 pm)

Sunday, December 15th! The 8th Annual Mercatini di Natale pop-up sale—local artists & artisans in Beacon Hill’s FABULOUS pizzeria & Italian restaurant, Bar Del Corso.

(12 pm – 4 pm)

Woof! Listen, if you can’t keep track of all that, same. Just wander around the city the next two weeks, you’ll probably trip over us eventually.

November 2, 2019October 11, 2024

Winter Sale 2019

This year we’re doing our annual open house/winter sale on Small Business Saturday, November 30th! The Saturday after Thanksgiving we’ll be open 9-6 with letterpress printed goods: cards & journals, a board game, a card deck, an advent calendar, artists’ books; as well as watercolor paintings and digital prints; also, free cookies & wassail.

As always the retail half of the building will be filled with art objects made by us, and by True Bug Press, Notta Pixie Press, Waterland Press, and our studio-mate Darius X Studio. In the back half we’ll be working on a small print object all day, mockup to typesetting to printing! Come observe & look at art & get some holiday shopping done at, literally, the only store where most of these things are sold.