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.

   

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. 

              

    

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. 

A4 Letterpress Letterhead for MAY Quarterly

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

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.

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.

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

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.

SAMSARA Lightbox Poster

Now playing: our double-sided, double process lightbox movie poster for Samsara, a visually resplendent guided meditation/ documentary on interconnectedness shot in 70mm over five years across twenty-five countries. It’s also a followup to 1992’s cult favorite Baraka. Out now from Oscilloscope Laboratories, Samsara is now playing in NYC at Landmark Sunshine Theater, where we captured these images of the poster glowing last night (complete with quintessentially downtown paint marker tag on the lightbox frame.)

Flawless Black Cards

Black foil stamp on black stock = a flawless black business card.

Denise

“Denise,” by Nolan Hendrickson for Publicide Inc, from the Lady Cards series. Original design, offset printing on #130 ecru felt.

SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS Poster

Our double-process, double sided lightbox movie poster for Shut Up and Play the Hits, the intimate documentary from Oscilloscope Labs examining LCD Soundsystem's ceremonious last hurrah, shown here in the wild at its limited run at IFC Center.