Over & Over by Mike Perry

Looking at more patterns…as inspiration for palindrome as well as a surprise coming this November.

Copia by Casey Kwang

Digging thru my books, I came across my collection of poetry books from Pinball Publishing. This one is my favorite, but I highly recommend any of them! I’ve been long time fans of Pinball, they are lovely people, fabulous printers with fabulous goods. Check ‘em out!

can’t wait to see more from this project: lines & shapes, from Maria Vettese and Lena Corwin.

What a fabulous project-so inspiring!

newly designed card set available in my Etsy shop.

more designs coming for this series. original illustrations created with lots of patience in tweaking bezier points in illustrator!

listening to Viva Voce today-one of my favorite local bands.

I am the very proud owner of archer, a fabulous, fabulous slab serif.

Loving the slab serif in this video.

looking at wolfgang weingart and listening to corrina repp

loving weingart’s round composition experiments that began when he was a typesetter, printing metal type on its “feet” as well as “face” in circular compositions.

loving angles right now

1. milk art etsy shop

2. erica wakerly angles wallpaper

3. octahedron vases

sneak-peek of a new card for palindrome 

seeing the repetition of the designs on stacks of paper always makes me smile.

Hellebore, one of my favorite flowers, just outside my front door.

I’ll be teaching a beginning letterpress class, Woodtype Postcards, at Oblation Papers on February 16th and a few more workshops on the horizon.

Only 2 days left to check out the let her press show at Office!

+ this card from pancake & franks

+ image above from new shop here in Portland: Life + Limb, a fabulous shop of carefully selected plants and home accessories.

inspiration for this very cold morning.

Paperfaerie’s book sculpture & fingertype by Lowman via Type For You

The Way It Is available here. Limited edition of 5 made exclusively for Office.

Inspired by an excerpt from 100 Years of Solitude: it rained for 4 years, eleven months, and 2 days. I printed this on fabric which some liked and others didn’t. I think mainly because some people feel letterpress is all about paper and a deep impression. But you can print on a wide array of materials and I think it’s fun to experiment.

Lots of fabulous work from others: Subject to Change, Hammer Press, Lark Press, Studio Olivine, Satsuma Press, Egg Press…

[from my sketchbook]

This Thursday evening is the Let Her Press opening at Office. Here’s a peek at the print I submitted, more pics coming soon.

A trial with fabric on paper.

I can’t get enough of this song by Scout Niblett with Will Oldham.
I’ve been listening to it over and over!

Time is flyin’! I’ve finally moved into my new studio, which went really well for moving 2 tons of printing presses! Above, is a collaged sketch of my process for 1 of the pieces that I put in legare’s café. I’m taking pics tonite of the artwork to share with everyone.

Next up, is a letterpress show at office, Let Her Press. I’m still working on the print, trying to keep it simple with drawings and hand lettering since it’s an edition. I’ve been working hard on organizing my new digs, as well as the palindrome site and products. I can’t wait to debut everything!

Really loving this wallpaper from Deborah Bowness, I would love this for my studio! thanks bloesem!

I’m continually going to le territoire des sens for inspiration, she finds the most amazing artists!

This is one of the projects that I finished up for palindrome. It was lots of fun and challenging! My new palindrome site will be coming up soon, it’s been a little troublesome, but soon, very soon. And I still need to print my new card design, but I haven’t had the time yet. grrrr!

I’m trying to keep everything simple: line work, patterns, text, and a few collage materials. I found a few pieces of vintage wallpaper at bernadette breu’s that I would like to bring in to it all. Sometimes, I get so caught up in the concepting part of it all and thinking things over too much and looking everywhere for inspiration, that I’ve just been trying to practice the act of making. Making marks, making some text up, making sketches, just to get the wheels turning and eventually, I figure I’ll find my way.

In the midst of art-making, I’m moving my studio soon! I’m so excited! I’m moving to the Ford building, just a 5-minute walk from my house. The Ford has a great community of artists: trish grantham, plazm, betsy watson, evan b harris and press 26 among others. No more yucky basement studio that smells musty and moldy! It’s quite the jump for me, but sometimes I feel you just have to make the plunge and if you truly love what you’re doing it will all work out. I hope!

I just finished my new logo for palindrome and reprinted my biz cards, stationery notes and letterhead. I’m really loving this light blue-gray ink I’ve been using lately. I’m in the process of making new work to keep myself busy with design projects and venture out a bit further with palindrome to see where it leads me. Soon, I’ll have more time for my art and palindrome projects as I’ll be working just half-time at Oblation. Yeah!! It gets crazy sometimes trying to balance everything! How does everyone out there do it?? And, I just updated my Etsy shop with my new letterpressed card set, Linked.

I am too excited about this card to not show everyone. This is a new card I designed and I’ll be putting it on Etsy as soon as the envelopes come in! It’s printed in a light blue-gray with black outlines, the links wrap around the back too. It was a lot of work with bezier points in illustrator, but very fulfilling!

UPDATE: now available on Etsy!

I just got done printing this invitation set for my dearest friends. I had a lot of fun designing it, both Kathleen and I have a love for green. I’ll be posting pics soon of more printed goodies: a new card and a whole new look for palindrome.

A doodle of a doily! I’m thinking of bringing this into my artwork and possibly a card line for palindrome.