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November 17, 2022November 17, 2022

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.

January 19, 2019January 19, 2019

New year’s store cleanup

Cleaned up the Etsy store today! Put away the December seasonal things, added the Big Type for Bad Eyes card deck, and a new set of open-ended love notes.

The Hello, love cards are meant to encapsulate all sorts of relationships & loves, not only romantic. So go wild! Send love wherever it’s needed.

October 3, 2018October 3, 2018

Projects page is a go

We’re launching a Projects page: a small sampling of some of Day Moon Press and associated artists’ favorite and most interesting long-term endeavors. The goal is to create small galleries and descriptions of these projects and the main aspects of their process, especially to show the broad range of possibilities in letterpress printing!

To start, we’ve written a brief, very brief summary of all the work and thought that went into executing Maralyn Crosetto’s gorgeous Italian Villa Advent Calendar. (It’s also now on our Etsy store.) We know, it’s early for a holiday piece, but Advent starts all the way back on the 1st of December! Anyway, it was only right to begin with a collaboration with Maralyn, who’s challenged Maura with beautiful, delicate books and prints and more for over 35 years.

May 26, 2018July 5, 2018

Journals for sale

We had cause to pull out the spiral binder a few weeks ago, a stack of various leftover text weight papers stored years ago, and seasonal decorative illustrations cast decades ago: these journals, in several sizes and designs, are now ready for sale! (At the shop, or online at the Etsy store.)

Each journal has 31 pages which is a comfortable number for the spiral binding and a convenient number for all sorts of things: gardening logs, chore charts, daily drawing challenges? Someone at a fair suggested dream journal for the starred ones, which is a way better concept than what we’d come up with which was cute.

March 17, 2018July 5, 2018

We hear it’s spring

And we’re prepared for spring, we always are: at our Etsy store we now have all kinds of cards in bright colors, with flowers and green grass and birds! A whole lot of birds. We’re big fans of birds.

Revel in the incoming weather! Taunt your friends in the autumnal southern hemisphere! Apologize to an ornithologist for us if you have to, we didn’t read a single book to fact-check these renderings.

March 12, 2018July 5, 2018

Our Etsy store is up!

Blank cards, distinctly not-blank cards, prints, and journals are for sale at our Etsy store. In making these listings it’s come to my attention that our themes are apparently handset type, re-purposed cuts, tough words, and animals.

The online store at present does not have nearly our full inventory! We’re working backwards and will update here as we add more listings. Currently it has Screaming Women and Belligerent Affirmations in completion, several varieties of blank notecards, a small journal, and a silly print about science, art, and the feeling of eh, close enough.

October 30, 2017November 4, 2017

Italian Villa Advent Calendar: Maralyn Crosetto

In 2010, Maralyn Crosetto of Waterland Press and Maura Shapley and Jack LeNoir of Day Moon Press embarked on a joint venture to produce Maralyn Crosetto’s Italian Villa Advent Calendar. The first copies were completed in March, 2011. Continue reading “Italian Villa Advent Calendar: Maralyn Crosetto”

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