Makers Market Cards
A quick hand-set type project for The Market that we’ve been peddling our stationary at on Sundays. (This is what we pulled those fonts out for)
A quick hand-set type project for The Market that we’ve been peddling our stationary at on Sundays. (This is what we pulled those fonts out for)
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.
Remember Ben’s teaser post, preparation anticipation ? It turned into this:


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

more pictures from the market and a special field trip after the jump
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.
Here are more details and directions to our building. Come on by and support Brooklyn craft and manufacture!
Hot off the press – new Program Guides for the 2009 Rooftop Films season.
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...and Willy's elbow
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