Monthly Archives: April 2008

A single light

I was born and spent my early childhood in Omaha, Nebraska, where our family lived and my parents worked as set designers (at the Emmy Gifford Children’s Theatre and Firehouse Dinner Theatre, among others), built stunning furniture, and created and printed intricate engravings and etchings, doing more art fairs in one year than any two

Proof of concept

I’ve been working with leather, and have had a lot of ideas I’ve only drawn out or explained out loud until recently, without actually having anything tangible to show. In addition to the custom portfolio project I’m working on, I also wanted to test my ideas with some smaller albums and journals. So this brand

First gestures

New things and new ideas are coming fast and furiously these days. As promised, pictures of the new letterpress cards in fun and springy green and turquoise inks (a few of which are already up on Etsy)! I did a set of custom flat cards for the (still relatively) new baby of good friends, as

A shape that satisfies

This was a Monday full of nice surprises and progress…could you ask for much more in late April? As someone who has a self-professed paper, book, and printing obsession, I spend a reasonable amount of time looking at blogs and sites related to all three. Today, I was completely surprised and flattered to find a

The trick of quiet

When I started doing letterpress work, I knew that I wanted to combine the printing with my bookbinding. I’ve developed a number of ways to blend the processes (not least of which are the full-on books in the works!), and I just completed the first of many custom portfolios and slipcases. This portfolio is for