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Holiday Season: November 30th Open House & Art Markets
November Open House & Art Market
November Open Studio & Art Market!
November Art Market, 12-6, Saturday the 20th!
Open for drop-ins & retail shopping!

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

Last minute restock again for the final sale of my

Last minute restock again for the final sale of my season! I’ll be @thegrocerystudios from 2-5 pm this Saturday & Sunday, along with a bunch of other artists there AND @freshmochiart just across the street!

These little mini reloadable journals have been doing well which is great since they’re very fun to make :) I get to utilize all sorts of cloth & paper scraps & experiment with making one of a kind patterns. The books are sized so you can make your own reloads really easily at home—one signature is just 1 piece of 8.5x11 printer paper cut in quarters, 2 signatures/book, easy 32-page refresh. You don’t even really need to sew the signatures, even though I do; loose leaf they’ll stay in the cords just fine.

Only other printers would even know to ask for thi

Only other printers would even know to ask for this and that’s the best thing about working with other printers :D All credit to @pipletterpress for hand-holding me through the color palette, and editing the details rendering this beautiful building they’re moving into. Can’t wait to see the space on Friday!!

Learn more at partnersinprint.org!

@shunpikearts @belltownartwalk @belltownunited @kc4culture @seattlerestored #letterpress #letterpressprinting #metaltypemonday #handsettype

Must reprint QUICK in time for sale @ the Mt Baker

Must reprint QUICK in time for sale @ the Mt Baker Community Club this Saturday 🎉

My uncle Brian did the original linoleum block of these gremlin Santas and he is so funny about it. Mildly surprised when I tell him I am reprinting yet again. Of COURSE I am, they catch the eye everywhere I take them.

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #mountbakercommunityclub

Annual Open House & Art Market announcement!! #sma

Annual Open House & Art Market announcement!! #smallbusinesssaturday , November 30th, from 12-6 pm, we’re hosting a market with @beaconartsseattle and will have the press’ doors open, complimentary tea in the urn, and guest artists selling their craft.

Personally I can’t currently see the prospect of cleaning our work tables with a telescope but I promise you all it will be done by then—my scraps and remnants will be stuffed in the closet and instead you’ll see beautiful displays by other local artists of many mediums:

@gretchensiegristclay I @blue__lou I @manicpixie.dreamsquirrel I @lemonfish_atelier I @shareandtag3friendoriwillcurse I @jewelrybyyali I Kelly Brenner Curiosities

Come join us! Meet your local artisans! Find works for yourself, family, or friends that hold the hand of the maker, preserved as in amber by their shapes & textures 🧡

WHAT a cool weekend at Wayzgoose 2024 @hamiltonwoo

WHAT a cool weekend at Wayzgoose 2024 @hamiltonwoodtype 💚💜 It was my first time attending and literally everyone I met was so welcoming, so kind, so interesting & interested in other people’s work and experiences, so excited to teach & learn & exchange knowledge. I didn’t take any GOOD pictures there, sorry, I just sort of swung my phone around wildly to show my parents & friends at home how cool the museum is and how much stuff is happening there, but here is only a sample of all the rad printed matter I got to bring home ✨

Thank you to @pipletterpress & LEAD for the opportunity to speak as a Print Futures rep, and the guidance that helped me make a presentation I can be proud of! Thank you to @gabbguy & @mintliu.svg for doing it beside me & making it easy to stand up there on the stage.

Thank you to all the Wayzgoose volunteers & organizers!! It was all very bird above the waterline from where I was standing but I know it was much harder than you made it look. & thank you to every speaker who brought their process to share—I am BUZZING with ideas, too many to ever do all of them, but maybe by next year I will have done some & perhaps 🤞 will see some of you there again & we can show each other what new ideas we’ve tried

#wayzgoose2024 #hamiltonwayzgoose #letterpress #letterpressprinting

@desertbusforhope starts today! 🎉🎉 I shipped

@desertbusforhope starts today! 🎉🎉 I shipped off a prize this year which will be up for silent auction starting tomorrow, Saturday the 9th, around 6 pm PST 🎉🎉

Went for a different format of card deck this time—hanafuda is a Japanese deck structure where there are no pips or values printed on the card faces, only illustrations. Classic Hanafuda decks have suits themed on flowers and plants, in 12 suits of 4 cards each. I've done a little re-design themed around Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, with each of the 12 suits oriented around materials, animals, or items in the game.

each card is so small—about 1 3/8 inch by 2 1/8—and current ones are this thick chip with laminated faces and some kind of slick coated paper over the back? Anyway mine are still chunky but by being two sheets of cross-laminated 120# cover. back sides with the Sheikah Eye printed from linoleum reduction; faces with hand-drawn lineart and little linocuts for each color.

i very much like the color palate that came out of it; since the pen drawings went down before colors i printed the grey first to find the bottom end of the value range, bookended it with the yellow, and filled in the middle. my favorite color of the bunch turns out to be the soft brown, or maybe the “gold” with no metallic in it.

and if you’re asking yourself, hey, even with overage it’s only like 5 copies of each card to get one perfect deck, why not hand color the cards? i also asked this. i tried some things and unfortunately did not like the texture at all. Only 88 little lino cuts would do for my brain worms.

anyway! check out the stream, check out the many many cool prizes up this year, & donate towards Child's Play :)

#desertbusforhope #letterpress #letterpressprinting #linocut #db2024

RESPECT YOUR DEVICES AS THEY RESPECT YOU. Petting

RESPECT YOUR DEVICES AS THEY RESPECT YOU.

Petting the cat is a two-handed operation, she is sure, and she is correct. A2, 120# Mohawk hemp. Set in Standard Condensed, Venus Extended, and Anzeigen Grotesk. On Etsy at daymoonpress.

#handsettype #leadtype #linocut #letterpress #letterpressprinting

There nothing to compare to for scale in the final

There nothing to compare to for scale in the final piece but I think it’s important that you all know this is a real cat and she’s 16 pounds

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #linocut #linoleumblock #printmaking

Hang tags & business cards for beautiful fabric ar

Hang tags & business cards for beautiful fabric arts from @foodshelterclothing in clean, classic Goudy :)

Makes me think about the old sheepskin my sister & I slept on as babies. They’re in the cedar chest now for safekeeping, still so soft and comforting.

Always a good time to play with the @pipletterpres

Always a good time to play with the @pipletterpress CMYK color stylings ✨ This particular good time was months ago, I’m very behind on offloading my wip recordings, but that’s not the point! The point is, thanks to everyone who supports Partners in Print, and thanks to PiP for supporting printing & printers!!

I’m additionally a big sucker for any color you can describe like a food. Wasabi. Lavender. Edible secondaries. PiP said be free with the design and I said great I would like to be several incompatible flavors of ice cream 💚💜 Chonks of color in wood type and just a little embellishment in lead.

#letterpressprinting #handsettype #leadtype #woodtype

Nothing better than making particular enclosures f

Nothing better than making particular enclosures for particular objects!! The Platonic ideal of Box. I never got well-lit footage of it but the inner lining in the slipcases is this brilliant emerald green paper lightning-shot with gold.

I also never did find an ID on the drop caps, because they aren’t in any of my type catalogs and I’m notoriously bad at googling. Sorry, the screen is so boring and I give up very quickly. Let me know if these deco-looking Celtic knot reduxes are familiar to you.

#letterpressprinting #handsettype #bookbinding

Reprinted these a bit ago and am simply very behin

Reprinted these a bit ago and am simply very behind on editing wip recordings lately. anyway! there’s a 9x12 version with text on it about “Everybody’s leg hair is cute including Mine”; i printed more of these 4.75x10.75 on reprinting partly because of paper efficiency but honestly also because it’s been a few years since i conceived of this print and back then i was only on the beginning of my No Shaving journey. by now i do not need the words so much anymore, and simply like the look of my legs, which are cute & cool just like everyone’s unshaved legs are.

Both versions up on Etsy ✨

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #handsettype #leadtype #printmaking #linoleumprint #linocut

Handmade cutlery & sharpening from @larson.made ✨✨

Shout out as always to the first lesson my mother's old printer friend Lee Engdahl taught me, metallic underprinters :) This was also my first time getting to print on the Used line from Gmund, and it is so soft & receptive.

#letterpress #letterpressprinting

Going to be @mtbakersummerfestival this Sunday the

Going to be @mtbakersummerfestival this Sunday the 23rd, 10-5, at Hunter Blvd Park! There will be many art vendors, live music, food, kids' activities, etc. I'm taking stock this week and I've got a list of prep tasks which includes:

• reprints of LEG HAIR, a summer inventory necessity :))
• stocking up on mini reloadable journals; do I NEED to go to the fabric store for new patterns, no, will I anyway, yes yes of course
• 🤞 think of me kindly and I may even get a new postcard about CAT RUDENESS finished in time. No promises but I will do my best :)

📣 📣 Getting ready for @tacomawayzgoose this

📣 📣 Getting ready for @tacomawayzgoose this Saturday, 11-4, at the Moore library branch in Tacoma! Steamroller printing, an equipment swap, printing demos at every table, etc etc. I’m only going to be there Saturday BUT it’s open 11-7 on Friday as well 📣📣

Come see everybody and grab one of these shouty guys with a little embossing demo :)

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #tacomawayzgoose

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

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