Blog — Press Section

Hello friends! I have been absent in my posting due to the fact that I had travel to California, classes resumed (teaching Graphic Design History this semester) and I've been busy printing and designing for clients. This past weekend though I was able to take a little break from it all and went to Mt. Pleasant Iowa where my brother and his wife and their three fantastic kids live and had a loooooooong overdue visit plus the annual Midwest Printer's Fair was going on in town as well.  Got to see their newest addition a 15-Ton press, you'll see it...

Hello friends! It has been a little while. We were on vacation in Colorado in Rocky Mountain National Park for some family R&R…We had lovely weather and the girls did wonderfully on hikes. I'll post some photos once I get through all the photo downloads! Anyway, I don't know if you know about this side of ThePCPress, but I frequently enter exhibitions. I'm trying to remember my first exhibition and it might have been a Grad School/Art School show of map-making. Last fall I had a solo show and workshop at Viterbo University in LaCrosse, Wisconsin and a fun summer show about...

Hello friends.!I have had a few whirlwind weeks of quick turn-around time design and printing for the wedding season. All fun and I'll show photos of those after they go out in the mail (don't want to ruin any of the bride and groom surprises!) Anyway I've been wanting to do some coasters for awhile now and I finally got around to putting some on the press…one was a custom job and then some of my own, of course many more designs will be coming out in the following months but figured these were a few to get the ball...

[caption id="attachment_1857" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Page of Ladies Typographic Union Letterpress 2012 Calendar by The Permanent Collection[/caption] Happy Fourth of July! This is a page from the Ladies Typographic Union Calendar (housed out of The University of Iowa Center for the Book) I had the month of July! Enjoy…   [gallery link="file" order="DESC" columns="1" include="1858"]