Beautiful Books

Last weekend, my boyfriend and I spent a day walking around the city and we went to several used bookstores along the way, something we both love to do. I always make a beeline towards the children's section, followed by the science and art, he heads straight for science fiction. I read his science fiction books and take pictures of the books I buy. It works.

:: german biology textbook ::

:: American Wild Life with heavily embossed cover ::

:: American Wild Life, three foxes ::

:: a drawing I made a few years ago from this same book, different edition ::

:: Science Stories, gorgeous ::

:: Science Stories, how the moon looks ::

Best Day Job Ever

:: Common Press poster by me::

I'm a lucky girl. My day job these days is working at Common Press, the University of Pennsylvania's letterpress studio as their letterpress tech/coordinator. I spent my first few months there organizing, cleaning, and getting the presses tuned up. Still working on that, I'm looking at you SP-15... Now though, we're turning our focus to printing new work at the press as well as archiving and documenting old work.

This poster is one of the new pieces I printed. It was printed using only wood and metal type from the studio on recycled French Paper.

Winter Colors

I was so lucky to have been invited to spend a weekend with friends in the Catskills, NY. We went for a walk and I looked for for critters and treasures. No critters (well, I did see some little kinglets) but many treasures...

:: red lichen blossoms ::

:: golds and reds ::

:: layers of mushrooms and lichens ::

:: who lives here? ::

:: hello, bright little mushroom ::

:: shards of ice ::

I think winter is my favorite season.

Books

One of my new year's resolutions to myself is to consistently, steadily, make books all year round. To not wait for an order or a craft fair, to just make them and put them out there. So here is what is available right now, these are all handmade and one of a kind with a unique mix of papers.

:: a pocket butter yellow journal ::

:: with mixed paper ::

:: a dark earth brown pocket journal ::

:: with mixed paper ::

:: mahogany pocket notebook ::

:: with mixed paper ::

Like Tears in Rain...

I printed a letterpress broadside with the famous tears in rain quote from the movie Blade Runner. I am now queen of the nerds.

:: like tears in rain ::

The type is handset 8 pt Univers Italic, set in a straight line across the lower half of the print. Every time I pulled a print, I wiped the ink off of the last part of the text, "time to die" so that it would print lighter than the rest.

:: all wood and metal type and forms ::

The rest of the print was composed entirely from wood and metal type and forms (big blocks of wood) that were available where I work, at Common Press of The University of Pennsylvania.

:: type and wood block ::

Each print is cranked through the press one color at a time and one piece of paper at a time, so that's ten layers of color and text on every print. It makes some interesting and unexpected textures and colors when those layers meet.

:: type and wood block ::

The prints will be available soon from an edition of 15.

vivid

I've been having dreams so vivid recently that I'm a little disoriented when I wake up...

:: fred herzog :: vancouver art gallery

:: kousaki hiromu - grandfather's envelopes :: The Douglas Hyde Gallery

:: rokuro taniuchi :: via 50 watts

:: urnatur ::

:: tigers in their natural habitat :: scanned from a vintage encyclopedia

In the shop

All new. All available here in the Huldra Press Etsy shop. Plus much, much more. And if you enter the code "SHIPFOR3" at checkout, shipping is free until January 1st.

:: rock lobster letterpress postcard ::

:: leather pocket notebook ::

:: hello friend letterpress postcard ::

:: warmest wishes letterpress postcard ::

:: leather pocket notebook ::