Letterpress Chapbook Covers

The new chapbook, Omnivore by Allan Peterson, will be released by Bateau Press in the coming month. I designed and printed the covers on the letterpress from photopolymer plates. I also digitally typeset the interior. Edition size is 300 copies. These are hand sewn with a simple pamphlet stitch.

Letterpress Packaging for Sedimental Records

I designed this concertina cd packaging structure for Sedimental Records' latest release from the band Area C. The concertina expands to allow easy access to two sleeved discs. The outer cover and sleeves are all printed letterpress with silver ink from photopolymer plates onto French Paper. Erik Carlson of Area C executed all of the artwork. The edition size is 500 copies. Paper engineering, printing and assembly by Shelter Bookworks.

You can now order a copy of this cd and listen to a track from the release at Sedimental's website

Bateau, Issue 2.2

This is the literary journal Bateau, Issue 2.2 for which I designed and letterpress printed a two-color cover from photopolymer plates using soy ink on Insulation Pink paper (one of French Paper's new FSC certified papers in their Construction line). Copies are available for purchase from Bateau. There are many great poems inside as well as drawings from the talented Joshua Vrysen.

Canada Type

I've been doing some research on type for an upcoming wedding invitation I'm designing and printing letterpress, and came across the stunning digital typography of Canada Type. They often revive mid twentieth century faces, which is perfect for my client's taste. What I love about many of their faces is how many alternates they create. Where a typical digital font might contain 250 or so glyphs, some typefaces from Canada Type include 650 glyphs. Each capital might have 3 or 4 variations. The effect is killer--a single word could have many different iterations, simply by swapping out a letter for one of its alternate forms. As much as we all love metal type, the flexibility of digital type and printing with photopolymer or metal plates give a letterpress printer so many options.

See the above font called Memoriam. With those thin hairlines, I think this could look great printed with the letterpress and I can't wait to try it.

Festival of Endless Gratitude

My work is in this group show in Copenhagen. Alas, I did not have time to take a picture of the work itself, but I was very pleased with the format I came up with and will be making more work like it in the future. For the past year I have been thinking about book hybrids--the piece I sent can be displayed like a book or hung on the wall.