Since I didn’t end up getting a calendar for Christmas, I just bought this letterpress seasonal wall calendar from ave9river. A seasonal calendar is perfect for a calendar page flipping procrastinator like me. Ave9river makes very delicate and beautiful letterpress designs. I also loved her snowbird holiday card design.
I love the prints that graphic design and print studio “Lovely” creates, and I especially enjoy the ones that are printed on found paper materials. It gives the prints a one-of-a-kind feel that is always nice to have when you buy art. They have lots of great photos of their work on Flickr as well.
Letterpress Delicacies has this really neat Rainy Day letterpress card for sale. I love how their prints have such nice tiny detailed patterns.
I thought this letterpress snow angel greeting card design made by Brooklyn Bookbinder, was pretty clever. I love how the snow angel part is imprinted into the card with no ink, it really looks like impressions in snow. You can purchase it right now in Brooklyn Bookbinder’s Etsy shop.
Design and press studio enormouschampion has this great letterpressed cassette tape design on one of their cards. It has a handy space at the top of the tape to write your message, as if you were writing in the songs on the mix tape. The above photo is by Kristina Contes and shows a little [...]
Lori Hutchinson is making some really fresh paintings. They have great texture, and I always love some ethereal oddness in paintings. I particularly liked the one called Umbrella Weather, but the one I posted above was just so bold, unique and well executed, that I had to feature it. It’s called Hanging Like a Star [...]
I thought this little bird was cute and I like the minimal type above it that just says “hi.”. It was made by Wendy, of dozi design, which is a shop full of nice colors and patterns letterpressed onto paper goods. There’s a also a dozi design blog that chronicles her new work and the [...]
I had a chance to fly a kite with my future wife this weekend and it was such a fun memory to make with her. I just noticed that Lab Partners is giving away a whole set of kite themed Gocco prints (click the link for details). All you have to do to enter is [...]
Moontree Letterpress has a great blog about the designs that they make. I love this card design of a guinea pig on a scooter. It’s fun to see silly designs printed in such an elegant way. It’s for sale on Etsy. Be sure to check out their more “serious” work on their blog as well; [...]
I like these prints by Groundwork on Etsy. They feature simple scenes, muted colors, and great texture. Via my love for you is a stampede of horses.