When Hell Freezes Over.

Sweet notecards.


Felt & Wire Shop: When Hell Freezes Over Stationery from Thornwillow Press

Simple is Beautiful.

Hand letterpressed print with dark green ink on tan French 100lb. cover-weight Kraft Speckletone paper. Limited edition of 85. 15" x 12" (38.5 x 30.5 cm).

onpaperwings — Simple is Beautiful.

Happy days calendar by pikkuwares.

Spendy for a calendar, but really lovely.



an original design screen-printed onto baltic birchwood creates a stylish backdrop for marking the days. at year’s end, elegant letterpress calendar pages give way to a captivating work of art — ready for display on its own, or for adding refill pages for the following year… making it an eco-happy choice as well! size : 9" x 16"

happy days calendar daisy do by pikkuwares on Etsy

Rock/pop lyrics letterpress prints.

These are fun.





These are part of Sarah Utter's recent work at Olympia Community Print, where she explored the lyrics that influenced her growing up.

Each print is slightly different, and the color of the inks changed with each one. Smudging and inconsistency are part of the process, and give them a rich character. Hand inked and letter-pressed on an antique "Vandercook 14" proofing press using soy-oil based inks.

These look great put in a simple frame. Ships wrapped in cellophane and backed by a reclaimed album cover.

Each is limited to 20 copies, all numbered on the back.

buyolympia.com: Sarah Utter

Lovely letterpress books.

I particularly like this:


And this:





For two years I traveled the road between Starkville, Mississippi and Tuscaloosa, Alabama while I attended graduate school. This book is a collection of visual and textual vignettes in reflection of that trip; little pieces of the scenery and of my thoughts during that drive.

The paper is 100% cotton rag, handmade from my family's clothes. The six large illustrations are linoleum reduction prints, the other illustrations are line art drawings printed from photopolymer plates. The type is handset in multiple sizes of Lutetia metal types, cast by Harold Berliner. The book is bound in a built-in groove case in a dos-a-dos style binding. 4' x 6', 56 pages with two illustrated fold-outs.

Crooked Letter Press : Letterpress books

Poetry & beautiful letterpress type.

The Nobel-prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska's whimsical poem "Pi" juxtaposes the finite, impermanent world with the familiar never-ending 3.1415... This book's structure and typography echo the poem, juxtaposing the discrete stanzas with the numerical sequence, which starts on the cover and dances across the pages, oblivious to the words, continuing on the back cover, and finally slipping off the edge.

You can read the poem here: http://plagiarist.com/poetry/?wid=9170

Etsy :: Pi (Letterpress Printed Artists Book)

(again, via Design*Sponge)