http://www.thehandworkpress.com East Lansing, MI-based Letterpress Shop and Website Dedicated to Letterpress Printing Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:54:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thought some of you might be interested in this post from Red Heather that I found on DamnPortlanders blog... I'm not actively printing other folk's jobs, so here tis: letter press printing hi guys! i want to print 50 copies of a letter press "chapbook" of short stories. letter press is never cheap, ... http://www.thehandworkpress.com/?p=125 Thoughts this might be of interest to some of the reader's on this site. http://www.thehandworkpress.com/?p=124 Well, closed for business is probably too strong of a phrase, but I do like it's no-nonsense directness... Truly, though, I am effectively asking that no more requests for quotes come in. I've received dozens and dozens of quote requests, and I can't compete with the big time commercial letterpress ... http://www.thehandworkpress.com/?p=123 I just finished reading David Byrne's article from the January Wired, called David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists -- and Megastars - In the same issue is David Byrne interviewing Radiohead's Thom Yorke These articles don't really talk about the creative process, or the like, but instead focus on current ... http://www.thehandworkpress.com/?p=122 I’d like to highlight some beautiful work that has recently come across my desk. Anybody who spends any time on this site, or knows my work, knows that I have intense passion for recording and music packaging. In fact, I’ve collected music packaging, making the distinction that ... http://www.thehandworkpress.com/?p=120 So in a rare act of exploring You Tube I found some more Hatch Videos with Jim Sherraden talking about the letterpress process. This first one is a pretty nice one from a North Carolina television station in 1991, and then a newer one below. Again, Jim's talking about "preservation ... http://www.thehandworkpress.com/?p=119 Unfortunately, we're not currently doing wedding invitations. *Unless* you’ve been referred to us by one of our friends or past clients. Wedding invites are referral only. If you’re looking for Letterpress Wedding Invitations, click on one of the Google ads here on the site, as there are many quality letterpress ... http://www.thehandworkpress.com/?p=118 It was with great anticipation that I showed up half an hour early on a horribly rainy, yet warm Michigan winter night. I was going to see legendary proponent of Letterpress Jim Sherraden speak about his tenure and his experiences at Hatch Show Print in Nashville. I was first turned ... http://www.thehandworkpress.com/?p=117 This is a Flickr slideshow of a fairly recent invitation job I did for a co-worker. It's kind of mundane, but outlines the arrival of the die from Owosso Graphics through the makeready onto the printing and then the completion of the job. http://www.thehandworkpress.com/?p=115 The Hand Work Press introduces affordable short-run one-price letterpress printing for CD sleeves...-UPDATE - Since I first wrote my little manifesto here, and created this pricing scheme the demand has been incredible. I've been blown away by the interest, and also the work that has come ... http://www.thehandworkpress.com/?p=113