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Type Around the Studio

The other day, we pulled out a bunch of foundry type for a lead type project (post on that to come later). We were looking for some Futura, but I don’t think we ended up finding the right size. In anycase, lots of other  type goodness came out of storage. The labels on the fonts themselves are just lovely.

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Letterpress Lately

Remember Ben’s teaser post, preparation anticipation ? It turned into this:

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The shop has been pretty busy the past couple months, here’s a bit of what that side of Swayspace has been up to.

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Patrick’s Neon Bicycle

Our pals over at Lite Brite Neon recently created a bicycle out of neon tubes inspired by Patrick’s ride, which was designed and manufactured by Alternative Needs Transportation. It’s for the Sony Madison Avenue store.

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last market + field trip

Some pictures from the last ‘Makers Market’ at the Old American Can Factory

I decided to branch out from the usual thank you notes, and went with some gold and a lovely purple for my set that day. Here’s the setup for the last card I printed—of course I had to go for ‘howdy’ if in this typeface.

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more pictures from the market and a special field trip after the jump

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Posted
26 June 2009

by
Willy

Categories
Letterpress, News

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The Market at the Old American Can Factory

This Sunday from 11am–6pm Swayspace will be participating in The Market at the Old American Can Factory. We will be selling sets of our antique handset Thank You stationery as well as custom-printing-while-you-wait stationery.

  1. Set of 6 folded Thank You notes – $15
  2. Set of 20 flat customized notecards – $40
  3. Set of 20 folded custom notecards – $45

Here are more details and directions to our building. Come on by and support Brooklyn craft and manufacture!

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Posted
22 May 2009

by
Willy

Categories
Design

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New Rooftop Films Program Guides

Hot off the press – new Program Guides for the 2009 Rooftop Films season.

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Posted
14 May 2009

by
Shannon

Categories
Letterpress

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Crazy Four Color Dither Update

the final print, not trimmed

the final print, not trimmed

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Posted
11 May 2009

by
Shannon

Categories
Letterpress

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Fresh Printing: Letterpress Crazy Four Color Dither

Yes, that’s right, I said dither. and letterpress and four color.

Crazy?

Yeah, I think I mentioned that too.

Ben, Patrick and John start printing the yellow and cyan plates

Ben, Patrick and John start printing the yellow and cyan plates...and Willy's elbow

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BMI, BackStory, Hall & Partners Health, and SMP projects

We are happy to share some projects that we added to our website today. Click to see more information and images.

BMI Advertisements
(We already mentioned this, but have added a better photo to the portfolio.)
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BackStory Identity
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Hall & Partners Health
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SMP Career Manual
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