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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 have been waiting for actual years to think of a

I have been waiting for actual years to think of a use for the 3 1/2 pt. type :D And designing a weird specific box is one of my secret favorite things; it doesn’t come up much and mostly I have to think of my own excuses to do it. Happy Valentine’s Day to me, I enriched my own enclosure 🧡

I will have a handful of these at @tacomaisforlovers on Sunday this weekend! Come get an eyeball on them for yourself 🔎 (I did my best with the camera but I sure struggled 😆)

#lettepress #letterpressprinting #handsettype #bookarts

I try not to incorporate unsourced text into thing

I try not to incorporate unsourced text into things but I finally committed to the camel imagery when I saw the Wikipedia entry on diet that said: “[Camels] are primarily herbivorous.” Primarily. Hmm. Anyway it’s called Risk on Etsy for brevity but that’s the real title on this one.

8x10, Rosaspina ivory. Edition of 44. 40$, and for every print sold I donate 20$ to local food banks. feel free to message me for details about donation destinations!

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #handsettype #linocut

I feel like I haven’t done one of these in a whi

I feel like I haven’t done one of these in a while! Just a quick fun game with type, messing around. Goofing. The moon is a banana now.

Goudy Oldstyle & Weiss Initials

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Notecards for @marpacconstruction with design & li

Notecards for @marpacconstruction with design & linoleum blocks by @laurennishizaki ! Always fun to do these complex kinds of projects, and to work with Lauren’s beautiful blocks.

@desertbusforhope is live and ongoing this week, r

@desertbusforhope is live and ongoing this week, raising money for @childsplaycharity! Many items up for auction/giveaway are donated by crafters & artists; I’ve done it a few times now and it’s so cool to make something fun, complex, and a little silly, but also see it transformed into real impact. It’s up for giveaway sometime between 6 pm-12 on Monday!

This year I made a playing card deck based on Balatro— If you’re not into video games, or this game in particular, just know that Balatro is a game where you play….weird poker, and there’s 150 different Joker designs integral to play. So I made a regular 52-card deck, but each card face is a unique die cut from this parent sheet of a 10x16 lino, such that an icon representing every joker appears at least once in the deck. Fun challenge! Actually kind of stupid simple to execute when it gets down to it. I have not worked smarter here, only harder 😂

I cut the pips to keep the faces tidier; the rest of the faces & colophon text are set in Century Schoolbook and Bradley. The Schoolbook is a personal favorite that I’ve used plenty, but the Bradley doesn’t come up as much and yet is very special. It’s a pretty old & worn case, came from my great-grandfathers shop on my dads side.

Also check out the other donations & the stream! It’s 24 hours a day of goofing and very cool art & community ✨

Busy season coming up!! I think I have been a bit

Busy season coming up!! I think I have been a bit of a turtle the last few months, not looking up from the work very much, but now is the time to go out and meet people and see what all the effort was for ✨

Come join us at any of these events, find art, meet makers, and support your local artists!

I get her so many chew toys but she craves only ch

I get her so many chew toys but she craves only chipboard

Portfolio boxes for @tjc_inc! Copper underprinter,

Portfolio boxes for @tjc_inc! Copper underprinter, red on top, kind of has a foil-stamp-y sheen in the end.

Aren't these COOL. I mean the cars were cool obvio

Aren't these COOL. I mean the cars were cool obviously, I wish there weren't 12 scientifically backed reasons to make cars in the new boring blunt-nose shapes. But the ads themselves. The hand-drawn illustrations. 👌👌 Incredible.

Someone brought these in with the original paper covers, very understandably worn, and wanted a simple re-binding that removed the old rusty staples, protected them, and made them easier to handle every once in a while without more damage. I made it a little more complicated by not being satisfied with the book cloth readily available, but finding a perfect red & blue in a line of majority linen at the fabric store. Absolutely worth the fuss to back the fabric—the colors are just the right shades, and the surface a little softer than most book cloth I could get in a similar timeframe.

if only it were turning out to be a little more an

if only it were turning out to be a little more annoying, less rewarding, to make book cloth out of fabric scraps, i wouldn't be tempted to keep going back to the fabric store :( but those baskets full of fat quarters, you can just stick a hand in and get a fistful of FUN.

anyway i got pretty low on these reloadables, especially the minis, so I did a bigger batch and now I've made space for a separate fabric/book cloth storage system. it got to be too much to keep with the other miscellaneous materials. i am becoming my parents, grandparents, etc.

I usually let the text sit longer, go back to it,

I usually let the text sit longer, go back to it, edit more, before I set anything. But I guess it’s appropriate that here I, mm, upchucked it all in a note over about two hours, let it devolve into incoherency, and didn’t mess around trying to over-work it the next day. Just let it be what it was & set.

Anzeigen Grotesk, Alternate Gothic, bulk in Tannhauser, which is one of my favorite faces for its own qualities but also for sentimental reasons, being one of my mother’s favorites first. I’ve got well over enough for this—probably three full founts in the case—although not quite enough Didot spacing, not in the whole shop :/ and no larger sizes of the face, so it’s tough to implement in most commissioned projects.

Anyway! This is sort of a coming out for me in an extremely anticlimactic way. I’ve been answering when asked and introducing myself to new people as such for a while but frankly I didn’t meet new people that often until recently, and mostly didn’t mention it to people who knew me already. Just been percolating on it. Didn’t feel pressed before to change my way of being around anyone or make any prints about it. Then it did press, sort of suddenly & strangely. Lots of reasons for that I could speculate on but shan’t.

Always grateful to anybody who bothers to read all the dang words I put on one of these, it’s a lot, and I’ve seen several responses to it now, all very gratifying or sweet or funny or kind in their own way. As usual I worried that this meant nothing outside my own head, but certainly it’s proven to be one of those things where, in being specific to myself as possible, it’s come back around to being something other people can see in themselves.

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #handsettype #leadtype

cooper black, venus extended, etc. wanted to do so

cooper black, venus extended, etc. wanted to do something quick and a bit rougher before Wayzgoose, and then felt like i had to wait to post until it got a little sunny again.

the sun is hand-inked with orange and fluorescent red, impression pulled without register in the Poco proofing press, yellow wash slapped on with a brayer. i know i can be a little—uptight, as a printer. this is baby steps 😆 but i'm feeling out for the new freedoms i will enjoy, and i like these a lot.

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #handsettype #leadtype #woodtype

Had these as a little die cutting demo at the Wayz

Had these as a little die cutting demo at the Wayzgoose last week but there’s a small stack leftover so I finished them out for the Etsy store! Related thoughts and style to some other stuff I’ve done. All part of, hmm, studies for a larger project I’ve been percolating on for a while. Anyway if you’d like the tooth that came out along with the little print there’s a button for that :)

Set in Caslon 471.

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #handsettype #leadtype

Finishing up last details on new stuff for @tacoma

Finishing up last details on new stuff for @tacomawayzgoose tomorrow! Including a little demo with the tiniest die cut in the tiny press 🦷✨

So so excited to see all you printers & print enthusiasts!!

#tacomawayzgoose #letterpress #letterpressprinting

A block of my uncle’s! He printed a couple copie

A block of my uncle’s! He printed a couple copies for friends and family years ago. I asked if I could print more for the shop and he said yes; I asked if I could print them in jolly rancher colors and he said, I said…….you could……print them…….. which was not a no :))

Arches 88, 14.75 inches square

#letterpressprinting #letterpress
#linocut #linoleumblockprint

Doing my dang best to finish some new things for @

Doing my dang best to finish some new things for @tacomaisforlovers this Sunday (27th)! This lizard is a wood block my grandmother carved something like 30 years ago, pre-arthritis. Love his funny little eyes.

The block was made for some kind of fabric printing—we haven’t found any samples of it to know what kind for sure—but anyway it isn’t particularly planed or level. I fixed what I could in the bed but even then there’s one toe that needs some touching up by hand. Pretty simple on the type form but I took some extra time with it, feeling picky about decorative pieces that go best together.

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #handsettype #printmaking

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