Monday, October 22, 2012

TINDERBOX Music Festival Printing!

We printed these promo posters and lineup cards for the Tinderbox Music Festival, an multigenre all-female music showcase headlined this year by CocoRosie and Jean Grae on November 11th at Webster Music Hall.
   
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Printed in two colors with halftones, these posters and cards take their cue from classic pre-digital show poster printing, when offset printing and screenprinting informed by DIY movements ruled poster art, as seen below. 


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We love the Tinderbox poster's subtle nod to lo-fi and riot grrrl aesthetics--it perfectly echoes the festival's DIY spirit, history and mission

Friday, October 12, 2012

A4 Letterpress Letterhead for MAY Quarterly

Our new European A4-sized letterhead for MAY Journal, a quarterly critical review based in Paris.

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MAY's robust slab serif logo lightly letterpressed in bold Pantone 179 ink calls to mind a classic era of publishing. This letterhead wouldn't look a bit out of place sitting on someone's desk in a Lustig-era New Editions Books office.

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Letterpress on Strathmore 80# text in Bright White Wove enhances the stationery's classic appeal. One interesting fact about the Bright White shade is that it's a holdout from a golden era--it hails from a time before paper companies introduced the superpowerful bleaches that are now standard in the commercial papermaking process. Bright White remains a slightly warmer, slightly old-fashioned, less fluorescent white than the extremely bleached out, cold ultrawhites available today.

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And the slight tooth to this paper surface is also fantastically suited to letterpress printing. 


Wednesday, October 3, 2012

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From the depths department: This full-color CMYK print undersea card turned out looking SO REAL. The light, the water and the dazzling foil stamp make it a little bit hypnotic.