Etsy shop!

As indicated, I did set up an Etsy shop to sell the letterpress birthday cards I recently made. I'd like to add some more items, but I'm not sure where to start. Any suggestions?

More Letterpress

I took Letterpress III at the San Francisco Center for the Book, which was a class project to produce a poetry chapbook:

I was responsible for the strip of paper that would wrap around the book. The poem had a lot of natural imagery, so I went with that:

I also worked on a small batch of birthday cards (below). I think I'm going to try to package them up and sell them on my Etsy shop.

City College starts up again in a couple weeks, so I should have more to share soon!

Letterpress Thank You card

For my second letterpress class at the San Francisco Center for the Book, we were teamed up with a partner to create a small set of cards using two colors. My partner, Aaron, was a software engineer who was just about to start an MFA in graphic design. Neither of us wanted to do holiday cards and since we both had somewhat geeky backgrounds, we thought of a technology-inspired thank you card. He thought of the IM-style text and I had already started imagining using lines vertically. We decided to make one of the lines the text color to make it a bit more interesting.

Letterpress

While I was working on my first book in the spring of 2008, I stopped by the Book Arts and Printers Fair at Fort Mason, where I found a booth for the San Francisco Center for the Book. They offered letterpress classes, but they were often when I was not available and filled up quickly. By the spring of 2009, my interest in book-making had only grown and I happened to find an open class on a Saturday when my normal printmaking class would not meet for Spring Break. I jumped on the opportunity to take Letterpress I:

I gained a new appreciation for the printed word and left/right justification. Incidentally, I will be taking Letterpress II today. After I complete Letterpress III, I will be able to rent time on the machines for my own projects!