surprise mini screen-print.

12 days of sales & treats continues!  We are now offering a free SURPRISE mini print with all  purchases.  No coupon code required.  Shop away online & we'll include it in your order.

These 5x7" screen-prints make perfect stocking stuffers or a small treat for a co-worker or neighbor!

Offer only valid on our official online shop. 

~  Bonnie

let there be light. and hardening of emulsion.

This week was a very successful one for our business, Kaye Rachelle, because our new massive {35" x 45"}, homemade screen-printing exposure unit perfectly exposed our first screen.  The lights turned on.  The emulsion hardened.  And 5 minutes later, the image sprayed out perfectly.  We squealed & hugged & high-fived like a couple of super nerdy printmakers.  It was awesome.

So while we'll be busy this week exposing our latest designs, I share with you the work of screen-printer, Adam Smith.  I recently discovered his work after my husband surprised me with this delightful print of Ben Franklin:

{First American}

{No One Ever Really Dies}

{One Foot In . . .}

{Collective Conscience}

Adam Smith's work is available on Etsy or at Art Star in Northern Liberties.

~ Bonnie

 

ode to calligraphy.

This morning I sat down at my {iMac} computer to discover ~ as most of you did ~ that Steve Jobs passed away.  I could not help but think just how so many of us designers are in debt to him & his creativity.


Later, I had the pleasure of reading his commencement speech that he addressed to Stanford University back in 2005.  And you know what he credited?  Calligraphy.

"And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later."  ~ Steve Jobs

So in honor of Mr. Jobs & his appreciation for calligraphy, I share with you the typography work of Brooklyn-based artist Jessica Hische.

~ Bonnie

to scale. to see at the print center.

I was searching for some art shows to check out this week & I came across To Scale, the current exhibit at The Print Center here in Philly.  It's a pretty cleaver concept for a group show, all whom are working in a one-to-one ratio with their various imagery.  The combination of art & reality at its finest.

{Kay Healy}

And if the show isn't enough to get you to the Print Center before November 19th when it closes, perhaps you should note in your calendar that the founders of the Wooster Collective will be at the Print Center for a gallery talk next week, on Thursday, Oct. 14th. 

via Wooster

via Wooster

The marriage of art & the public is really a beautiful thing.

Off to the Print Center,

~ Bonnie