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November Open House & Art Market
November Open Studio & Art Market!
November Art Market, 12-6, Saturday the 20th!
Open for drop-ins & retail shopping!
Annual online shop clean-up!

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Family-owned letterpress print shop est. 1976. Founded by Maura Shapley, continued by Tess. Shop online on Etsy as DayMoonPress.

I was SO happy to get this project inquiry in my i

I was SO happy to get this project inquiry in my inbox a couple weeks ago :D

Atomic Frontier is making short science documentaries on YouTube and asked if I could put together a small printing project that put the channel name in handset type, with every letter a different face—I said yes of COURSE this a typography crime I will aid & abet, thank you. I do not know when the final video concerning typography will be finished but my personal favorite currently available is “Why typing sucks now” for perhaps obvious reasons and you should check it out to scratch that language & science itch!!

In order: Caslon swash; Trafton; Gravure; Garamond small caps; Nubian; Bernhard Fashion; Tudor Black; Melior; Reporter; Bodoni book italic; News Gothic condensed; Albertus; Della Robbia (original); Bernhard Tango.
(I tried but could not find a place in the visual rhythm for the coolest raddest Wilhelm Klingspor Schrift
:( but I believe it will make an appearance in the final video)

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #handsettype #leadtype

@m.d.jenkins :) a pleasure to work with beautiful

@m.d.jenkins :) a pleasure to work with beautiful art as always

Do not look at the floor around the big C&P, I’ve been doing a lot of die cutting lately and it is all oil & scraps down there

Challenge accepted from @wintermoonteahouse :) #l

Challenge accepted from @wintermoonteahouse :)

#letterpress #letterpressprinting

Love is a lot of things, including struggle and te

Love is a lot of things, including struggle and testy communication and dog slobber on your pajamas.

Generous and forgiving friend let me take reference photos for this while she was just trying to live her life and get her dog medicated 💛🖤 It is basically a companion to the Something About the Way I Hold My Teeth print, sort of the nega-verse version. Posi-verse version??

Linoleum + a few hand inked details, Awagami bamboo. 8x10 inches. Edition of 25.

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #printmaking #linocut #linoleumblockprint

New year same weird feelings about teeth #letterp

New year same weird feelings about teeth

#letterpress #linoleumprint #printmaking #linocut

Nearly time to pack up for @thegrocerystudios & @f

Nearly time to pack up for @thegrocerystudios & @freshmochiart pop up sale!! I have kept my personal pledge and finished A Small New Thing every time I’ve taken retail corner out of the shop this season. By now I’ve some very mini illustration prints, some pocket journals, this little trifecta of seasonal comforts :)

Come see @thegrocerystudios gorgeous space for arts and artists, 9th & 10th!! Saturday 6-9, Sunday 2-5 🎉🎉

Task list today: getting the shop ready to host a

Task list today: getting the shop ready to host a couple wonderful local artists in the space for our annual open house & art market! 12-6 this Saturday the 25th, we’re open for your Small Business Saturday art shopping stop with letterpress and book arts goods, plus guests with paintings, fabric arts, ceramics, intaglio, and more!

@beaconartsseattle @maureen_mitchell_studio @klepsydra.art @ikatandme @diana_vergis_vinh @gretchensiegristclay @madartprintstudio @jennybeastie

Happy to work with @marpacconstruction again on th

Happy to work with @marpacconstruction again on this year’s cards! Illustrations printed from beautiful linoleum blocks by @laurennishizaki

Anybody who knows me knows how I feel about red & blue color combos 💙❤️💙

The weather turned out GREAT for us today, come vi

The weather turned out GREAT for us today, come visit this beautiful garden full of art!! 4211 46th Ave S, right next to Genesee Park, until 3 PM 💛💚

I finished a couple new things just in time for this weekend—some perforated journals and a new mini illustration with handset type. Can’t believe that can of neon red ink is still lively but it’s powerful stuff.

📣 @desertbusforhope starts tomorrow (Saturday)

📣 @desertbusforhope starts tomorrow (Saturday) at 2 pm PST: a charity gaming marathon where every dollar raised goes to @childsplaycharity !

I made an item for the Craftalong this year that has several pieces of my heart & soul but NOT my blood because I put a bandaid right on that :) It is a full 78-card Tarot deck printed from handset type and linoleum blocks, where the meaning of each card is encapsulated on its face with a quote from the game Disco Elysium, and it will be up for giveaway sometime between 6 am & 12 pm on Monday the 13th 📣

Can you tell I love card decks :) LOVE em. Designing a card deck for letterpress is so silly and I find such joy in it. I have also been searching for a compelling framework for a Tarot deck for a while, and the writing in Disco Elysium makes my brain fizz like pop rocks, and, here, the Craftalong puts purpose to even the most Roomba-like associative impulses to create.

Handset in Garamond, some Eden Bold, and a little sneaky Neuland. As a one of a kind object, putting color in each actor’s name was most efficiently done by printing all text in white and selectively applying bronzing powder to it. Printing went quite smoothly really! I have enough type to set about one suit at a time (14 cards), which is about all I could print before the opaque white ink starts to get tacky, and the drop & replace formes for exchanging each face’s excerpt registered well. I think I’m getting pretty good at planning one of these things. Or I’m getting complace—nah, there’s 78 cards in here, I’m fine.

Projects like this really make me notice how absurdly small the photos on Instagram are :/ anyway if you’re interested in a better look at it, or the full text of the cards, message me and I can direct you to images hosted elsewhere 😝

#desertbusforhope #childsplaycharity #letterpress #letterpressprinting #handsettype #metaltype #discoelysium

Happy spook season 🧡🖤🧡!! Exposure Therap

Happy spook season 🧡🖤🧡!!

Exposure Therapy no. 1: Did this lino block on Stonehenge instead of notecards this time! Fits quite nicely in a 5x7. They’re up in our store either pre-mounted or framed. I should put one on my bedside table, it’ll be better than coffee to catapult me out of drowsiness every morning.

#letterpress #printmaking #linoleumprint #linoleumblock

Very satisfying assignment from @tylerboleyphoto f

Very satisfying assignment from @tylerboleyphoto for a portfolio assemblage! Clean & classic & using some of the oldest type in the shop.

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #handsettype #leadtype

Been working on stuff recently that I will not pos

Been working on stuff recently that I will not post until later but I am alive & here is today! Been working on the baby press a lot too. Trying to take care of my knees.

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #chandlerandprice

Some of me is freed from tension having finished t

Some of me is freed from tension having finished this one. I have been turning images like this over and over and trying to suss out what they mean and then, at the dinner table, @klepsydra.art said nearly these exact words for completely unrelated & normal reasons and I did a jerkwad Artiste behavior of scrambling for a piece of paper and writing it down in the middle of the conversation. I’m genuinely sorry, sometimes I am a stereotype of my profession and my mind is not present with you when we talk. It is somewhere else thinking about mammalian bite strength.

16x16 inches, cream BFK Rives. I truly felt like this was one of those Audience Of One (Who Is Me) projects when I was designing it, BUT I did make an edition of 25 (plus a couple slight misprints). Etsy or message me if u also wish to have this mood for your home :)

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #reliefprint #linocut #linoleumblockprint #handsettype #woodtype #printmaking

Vashon ferry & ferns & Garamond, cream BFK Rives—I love this paper color very much—and bronzing powder for the gold!

Never illustrated a ferry before but they’re so friendly-shaped :)

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #handsettype #leadtype #linocut

Just a final trim to do once this pass is dry :))

Just a final trim to do once this pass is dry :))

#letterpress #lettepressprinting #linocut #woodtype #linoleumblockprint #printmaking #handsettype

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