Showing posts with label letterpress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label letterpress. Show all posts
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Monday, September 12, 2011
Sugar Too is Nigh!
It's been a while since the last series of sugar skulls but I'm glad to report that the next series is ready. Each print is hand-pressed on The Cranky Pressman's classic Vandercook, with vegetable based ink on Crane & Co.'s Lettra line of letterpress-specific paper stock. With magnesium plates and 110lb. 100% cotton paper this series is faithful to the first so if you have a print from my first series, these 12" x 12" prints will fit right in. This is a limited edition, five designs, 50 prints per design, hand-numbered and signed.
If you got a print in the presale, thank you! More importantly, your print is in the mail. Please let me know how your print arrived, I put more into packaging after seeing how the post office handled the last series.
Prototype:
Production:
About Series 2
This time around I'm working again from my childhood icons, but this time with a focus on my Japanese upbringing. While these icons might not be as popular in the US, some of them have influenced my aesthetic from very early on. Others, like the Domokun, are a nod to the continuing influence of the Japanese kawaii-cuteness in the modern dialect of commercial symbols and this thing called the Internet.
The artwork for the first skulls in this series were done just after I sold the last and after getting the illustration work to The Cranky Pressman, Japan was struck with the most devastating natural disaster in its history. I decided to add five blinds of each design as a visual moment of silence to honor those who lost their lives in the event. A blind deboss is a pressing without ink, the result is an impression in the paper but no inked surfaces. These blinds will be auctioned as a part of this series, each signed and numbered in an edition of 5 per design, with 100% of the proceeds going to the relief effort in Japan.
Previously on the web:
Wareground: This Ain't Daddy's Sugar Skull
USA Today: Sugar Skull Art, So Yummy!
Craftzine: Sugar Skull Art, So Yummy!
OMG Posters: Pop-Culture Calavera Prints by Jonathan Koshi
Monoscope: Jonathan Koshi: Sugar Skulls
BoingBoing: Dia de los Muertos skulls of Kermit the Frog, Alien, Pac-man, etc.
WIRED: Sugar Skull Prints Put Day-of-the-Dead Spin on Geeky Icons
Monday, February 14, 2011
Get Your Sugar
After nearly 10 years living in the Mission, I was inspired to design a series of Calaveras, sugar skulls, popularized by the Dia de los Muertos celebration. I got a lot of positive response and more than a few requests for prints.
While lasers are cool for cats, they are not that impressive for printing, so I decided to get these letterpressed. After some research I decided on the Cranky Pressman in Salem, Ohio. Keith, the pressman, was awesome and faithfully entertained my print requests.
Unlike some of the printers who use plastic polymer plates, The Cranky Pressman works in metal. Sure it takes longer, but there's something nice about transforming digital into Magnesium. Because of their size, they were manually pressed on their classic Vandercook press with vegetable based ink.
The paper comes from Crane & Co., one of America's oldest paper manufacturers. How old? Paul Revere engraved banknotes for the Colony of Massachusetts Bay on Crane paper to help finance the American Revolution. The paper stock is Crane & Co.'s 100% cotton, Lettra line, made specifically for letterpress.
This is a limited edition, six designs, 50 prints per design. Each is 12 inches square. Mailed flat.
Sold Out! Thank You!
Sold Out! Thank you!
Sold Out! Thank you!
Sold Out! Thank you!
Sold Out! Thank You!
Sold Out! Thank You!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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