It's almost January and you know what that means: It's time to wash my Smart Wool socks. And celebrate Christmas.
Jen told me I can't write anymore Christmas or Chanukah cards. After I egged her face, I wrote a Get Well card:


It's almost January and you know what that means: It's time to wash my Smart Wool socks. And celebrate Christmas.
Jen told me I can't write anymore Christmas or Chanukah cards. After I egged her face, I wrote a Get Well card:

Every few weeks Paper Source orders the same poopy cards from us.

This makes us happy because there is no faster way to evangelize than through a chain of shops that snakes its way through the country.
Our message?
Isn't it obvious by now? Spread (our idea of) letterpress goodness and joy like spackle into every dark crevice on this planet.
No big deal.
This card:

has nothing to do with fecal matter and so we were surprised (and delighted) to see it on our latest Paper Source order.
Perhaps the following dream was a premonition?:
There were no toilets — but there was a shower scene. The light over the C&P

had become a shower head and I had become naked. I prayed that nobody would walk through (why didn't I just lock it?) the shop door while I took my unnecessary (and might I add: gratuitous?) shower next to my printing press.
But someone did walk in.

I guess his name is Vincent Schiavelli. He was hiding behind the Heidelberg

with his cow. He wasn't smiling. I woke up.
The End
Winter has been creeping in like a gas leak and I am always pleasantly surprised to find myself awake in the morning.

"That's nice." I say, as I stretch and crawl off my sofa-bed. Never one to miss nuance, I wonder why I'm not in my own bed.
Good design sometimes requires getting into character - I've been dressing like a gypsy (not showering) for our latest Tanek project. A paper fortune teller is easier to mail than a crystal ball and some might argue - more accurate. Tanek will send 300 of these out to their dearest friends - I only hope they take the responsibility of predicting the future seriously:






Yup. I seen it all with my own two eyes. Laser beams cut clear through some kinda colored something. (Hi JSTK!)
And then there was this picture cut out of copper and she rolled a giant can over it and it pressed the picture right there into the book. She called it letterpress but it looked more like a torture-table. (Hi Wingnut Advertising!)

What in the ding-dang are these city-folk up to now??!! Putting pins in good folks and charging money for it?! I got myself some thumbtacks and I can put 'em anywhere you damn well please and charge you half 'n what these quacks are taking. You mark my words, next there's gonna be all kinds of potions and maybe even some of that herb smoking. I got news for you:
This ain't California.
We like our doctors wearing stethoscopes and blue pants. We like our doctors to give us shots when we don't feel good. We like being sent to the pharmacist. WE LIKE IT.
Oh, flibbity flam. I've got some noodlin' to do. Have a look at some of Fran's "work" for Performance Acupuncture.
Logos... What the?