I just realized it’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these shots!
This may look kind of blah, but we actually were mixing a particularly cool ink – reflective white – for a particularly cool business card, which is being photographed for the site as we speak. Stay tuned!
Did you know that a hit of red can make the perfect navy blue?
This is what I was mixing it for: an order of hand-set personal stationery.
Say what you will about the convenience, durability or consistency of polymer – as far as I’m concerned, none of those are any substitute for the old-world charm of hand-set letterpress prints.
Stay tuned for the photos of the finished product!
We’ve really got our plates full this week my dears! If you’re following us on facebook and/or twitter, you’ll know that we’re gearing up for something pretty exciting.
Stay tuned!
Now that I’m done moonlighting as a party planner, it’s time to head back to the studio for some real work.
But first, an annoucement: Paper Tiger Press is now on Facebook! I’m also working on the whole Twitter thing, though it really seems like the antithesis of what I do – wouldn’t it be nice if I could just mail everyone little handwritten tweets on letterpress stationery?
I think so.
On a related note, I’m loving this series of photos by Phillip Maisel, who took long-exposure photos of a computer screen while scrolling through facebook photo albums.
I actually found these photos more alluring before I read the artist’s mission statement, which came across as an over-dramatized afterthought to an exceptional idea. Of course now that I’ve said that, I’m sure you’re dying to go and see what I mean. Seriously though, just try to not roll your eyes at that last question.
More photos and the accompanying article here.
I’m starting a new ‘plat du jour’ category for these photos of my mixing plate, which will hopefully allow me to find them easily when I finally get organized enough to print some as art for the room.
They’ll also be conveniently titled with the colours I was printing with, because the other alternative was to name them for the shapes I see in them…but I’d rather if people didn’t think I’m nuts. How bad can it be, you ask? Here’s a good example: the last plate would have been Dolphin with Halo.
So colour titles it is.
