in love with letterpress

Also in love with this necklace!

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analog!

There's a cute little stationary site based out of San Francisco called Yellow Owl Workshop that is offering up odes to all things analog in this crazy digital age. Love this postcard set and all the Polaroid kitsch!

letterpress workshops?

I want to letterpress. I want to create a design, typeset it and see the actual letterpressed goodness after a run through the 'ole printing press. I want to spend a weekend geeking out with other graphic design nerds about typefaces and ink combinations. I want to get my hands dirty.

So periodically I sit down alone with my MacBook Pro and I type in search queries designed to elicit the ultimately cool letterpress workshop taking place next weekend at some yet-to-be-located letterpress studio (which, in my crazy fantasies, is located just down the street from my little apartment). I have not had success in this quest to date. As you might have guessed, either by noting that question mark in the title of this post or by observing the whiny tone to this blog entry.

Anyway, enough about me. The point here is to mention that while conducting a sad and lonely letterpress workshop google search tonight I stumbled across a website that includes classified ads for all things letterpress. No LA workshops on there at the moment, but maybe I'll find that elusive perfect weekend workshop someday. It must be out there somewhere!