We did so many print projects in 2018 we forgot to share most of them - I’ll start catching up on photographing them with this Level 11 card designed by @louviere.and.vanessa / black ink on kraft cover stock. #letterpress #kraft #businesscard
I have a few leather bound journals left after the markets. Three of the larger size in blue suede with handmade Khadi paper inside with a beautiful natural deckle edge running across the top of each page. The smaller ones have several endpaper options with English Somerset paper inside! Both papers are very thick and great for painting/illustration/vigorous writing. $35/$25 stop by the studio or message me and I’ll ship one to you. #handbound #smallfirespress
We out here till it rains! @artsmarketneworleans with the @baskervillestudio @typothetae crew. Come say hello before the deluge.
We’re at our first market of the season at @neworleans.airlift Music Box Village until 5! Come say hello and play some instruments.
Happy Halloween!! 🍬👻🍭💀🎃
Portrait #guillotinecutter
Happy .918 everyone. I think my favorite point in printing is the moment the baselines are flush on either side of the page. Printers/graphic designers do you have a moment of supreme satisfaction? #letterpress #918 #typehigh #bookdesign #poetry #chapbook #baseline
My collaboration project with poet Aaron James McNally just found its forever home at the @beineckelibrary / so pleased it will be somewhere it can be properly archived! Here’s a bit about the project: Friedrich Kerksieck & Aaron James McNally’s participated in a postcard collaboration from 2004-2008 titled “Reciprocations.” During this period of time McNally went from working at a Milwaukee, WI bottling manufacturer as a bookkeeper to Graduate School to study Coleridge and Wordsworth, while Kerksieck went from managing a used bookstore, to a solo bicycle trip from Iowa to Texas where he resided until moving to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to study poetry and book arts. Kerksieck’s surreal, image-focused verse blended in conversation with McNally’s more romantic, lyric style to create poems that were collected in several magazines, such as 6X6, Octopus, & Effing Magazine as well as chapbooks “Cruel, Yes, but Company” (Pilot Books) and “Stammer/Caw” (Further Adventures Press). The poems addressed themes of the American West, urban nature, the character of mercy, found/erased text, & their relationship to one another. The collection totals 481 poems on postcards, including 173 pieces from McNally & 308 from Kerksieck, 143 of which have been collaged or altered. #collage #alteredpostcard #postcard #postcardcollage #poetry #poetrycollaboration #earlywork
Was lucky today and got to eat lunch with Nancy Kuhl, curator at the Beinecke & take a look at some of their catalog including some Perishable Press titles and a French Resistance booklet disguised as an almanac.
Some tests on Japanese Metallic paper for some very fancy endpapers @householdgods / thanks @talasonline for the samples! #letterpress #poetrychapbook #metallicpaper #gold
Cassette sleeves headed out to @notice_recordings ! #letterpress #cassette #stationery #package #music #noticerecordings
Excited to be finishing up this invitation suite today for @ginnyhines / paired an invitation on handmade paper with a map illustrated by @marycatherinecalligraphy The thistle used in the design comes from an old printing block that’s been in the groom’s family for generations & I used it on several pieces including the wreath around the monogram. #letterpress #neworleans #map #invitations #wedding #monogram #thistle #handmade #handmadepaper #printing #design #streetcar #nola #stationery
Excited to work with one of my favorite Memphis designers @rzerilla - this time for her own wedding suite! Love this combination of colors and clipped corners. #letterpress #handmade #weddingsuite #stationery #wineenvelopes #gold
New broadside poet Steve Wilson commissioned us to do to take along on his reading tour for his new book “Lose to Find” out through @flpbooks / I love how the shading worked out printing the yellow over the charcoal. #letterpress #broadside #poetry #finishinglinepress #stevewilson #handmade #yellow #charcoal #stormlight
Every year @smallfirespress @southernletterpress @planetarymagnetics and @fitzpress make an edition of broadsides to surprise the winners of the creative arts literary awards at @onenocca - this was my offering this year / complete with sewn on meal work lure. #broadside #pantoum #poetry #nocca #broadside #letterpress #handmade #handmadepaper #khadi #mealworm #fishinglure #neworleans #smallfirespress #design
Four finished long/link stitch leather journals with handmade Khadi paper pages. Makes for a super tough/slightly irregular journal that’s beautiful & handmade. $25 each - message me if you’re interested. #handmade #journal #leather #khadi #handmadepaper #longlinkstitch #copticbinding #copticstitch #smallfirespress
Second new card from guest illustrator @jaredwright ! #letterpress printed on kraft paper. Get these and everything else in the store for 20% off using the code SUMMERFUN from now until the 4th of July. #snailmail #stationery #handmade #jaredwright #writealetter #owl #owls #kraft #smallfirespress #summerfun #neworleans #nola
New Opah Fish card! Lavender & silver #letterpress card on @reich_paper 100% cotton Savoy. Use code SUMMERFUN in the shop to get 20% off anything on the website until July 4th. Link in profile. #stationery #fish #opahfish #opah #handmade #lavender #silver #neworleans #smallfirespress