— unpredictable thoughts

I knew it, some­one would notice this amaz­ing project by Exquis­ite Let­ter­press, the shop of my long­time co-conspirator Peter Fra­ter­deus. Peter and I have known each other since the begin­ning of time. From his Mice­type newslet­ters in the early days of laser print­ing Post­script™ tech­nolo­gies, first third party type house to cre­ate mul­ti­ple mas­ter fonts, the first online com­mu­nity for design­ers designon­line, first AIGA com­mu­nity online, and his Alpha­bets foundry — we have exper­i­mented with offline and online tech­nolo­gies together.

Ya need to go over and BUY a pack of these cards or bet­ter yet print a set of your own design. These are lus­cious. Amaz­ing amounts of ink cov­er­age on cot­ton paper. Pleeze! Show some love for letterpress.

Big kudos to Peter! Now he can get ready for our Spring Fling an all-out sprint to print a set of my ink draw­ings, egypt­ian waters as a full­size lim­ited edi­tion and a set of blank note­cards. I think he can han­dle it.

We’re plan­ning an open house event around the print­ing of these draw­ings. Details to come.

Please note trade­marks on Mice­type, Post­script, designon­line, Alpha­bets and any oth­ers we may have for­got­ten to men­tion.

Tags: let­ter­press, exquis­ite let­ter­press, nytimes, let­tra, Igor Kopel­nit­sky, AIGA, crane paper