Posts from August 2012

From Brush to Pixel to Press

Posted 31 August 2012 by Willy
Categories: Letterpress

The folks at stamen.com figured out how to incorporate hand-painted textures and algorithmic rule sets to create a series of gorgeous digital watercolor maps. We were asked by Jason Kottke to translate one of these maps into a letterpress printed piece, t


Shout It From the Rooftop!

Posted 3 August 2012 by Willy
Categories: Design

For the past six years, we have had the honor of designing the Summer Program Guide for Rooftop Films. Each year, we've kept the grid, layout and styles consistent. But this year we changed it up by making the guide much smaller. We had to translate the


Sleep No More

Posted 3 August 2012 by Willy
Categories: Design, Letterpress

Our collaboration with proprietor M. Martell of the McKittrick Hotel has been fruitful indeed. We've been busy adapting the set of playing cards we designed for the McKittrick's special events to produce an ongoing series of Limited Edition prints for sal