Holiday Sale!

This Friday, December 11th from 5:30-8:30 Erin Fong and I are setting up a booth at the San Francisco Center for the Book! Come by and see us and support local book artists! Here is the link (click me) incase you need more information. Thanks!

refreshed etsy.

I've added a few things back into my Etsy shop. Feel free to take a gander!

courtney's exhibit

Of all the exhibit mailers I sent out, here is the first one to come back. Thanks Court! It's an awesome exhibit of her busy busy New York City life:

#1: "A perfectly symmetrical fall leaf. Waverly & Washington Square West"

#2: "Regular Wednesday chiropractor appointment"

#3: "Note for Lauren re: paying the cable bill and warning her of mushroom in Mom's stew."

#4: "My Lifesaver. (jack's coffee)"

#5: "Two trees drawn by my kindergartners after seeing me draw a tree. by: Eli & Jackson"

can't sleep.

I just went through a pile of letterpress things I printed and books I bound... and then I got to thinking about woodtype and how long it's been since I printed. 72 days!! There is just something about wood type, before it's even printed or inked, that I just love. The smooth type, dented, scratched and solid.... It's not just wood type keeping me up tonight, it's colors too. I love mixing a beautiful teal blue and then contrasting it with a warm orangish yellow (like a burt's bees chapstick)... Here are some pictures of things that I want around me right now:






                                       yes, please.

EXHIBIT

Oh office supplies, how I love thee. Tonight I sat down to "make" things, however living in a sublet apartment with minimal supplies I was surprised at my lack of creation tools. In other words, I miss you: typewriter, dry-transfer letters, scissors and envelopes. But post-its, glassine envelopes and exhibit stickers in hand, I have a little mail art project. It sets sail (post) tomorrow. If you want one, by all means, let me know!

Something happened to me, I check facebook WAY too much- so this project is my break from that, I'm asking for real, tactile, samples from my friends lives. I want them to pick up a feather on their way to work, or a receipt from their morning coffee, or maybe it's a movie ticket- it's anything! It's saved in an envelope, labeled and sent back to me! Lucky me. I'll post the results afterwards, and I hope it's a project that can grow!! I'm taking you down facebook. Mail "Exhibits" are the newest and hottest networking tools.

Print me out and Hang me up!!

Here are the images of the wedding invitations I printed for a San Fran style wedding! Erik did the beautiful drawing for the invites... and we get to go to the wedding too! Woo hoo!

announcing...

Erik graduated this May- woo hoo! So I whipped up some announments, inspired by his tattoo:

Q and A with myself

Q: Hey Taelor, didn't you start a blog to post your work?

A: Yup, sure did.

Q: Don't you also try and take pictures of your work to upload?

A: Why, yes I do.

Q:Seems like the last post was nearly 3 months ago, is this correct, or did you start another, amazing and mind blowing blog?

A: I have been busy blogging in  my sleep, I've forgotten to do it in real life.

Q: Is that an excuse?

A:  Yup.

 

Q: What have you been up to?

A: To be honest, Facebook Scrabble.

Q: Enough of that! Why don't you get on top of it already? Multi-task.

A: Well... if you say so!

Q: Good Luck.

A: Thanks.

Here is a broadside I printed for the Center for Book Arts Poetry Reading Series.... I'll get more up soon. Fo' real.

inspiration

okay- i'm just going to sneak this on here really quick. it's half-way to remind me to MAKE something with the 'animal on a hillside silhouette' idea i've had in my head for years. it's also to show everyone else this rad book. hidden forest. love it.

here is a link to the artist's site: Lizzie Thomas

thank you very much,

thank you cards for my niece's 2nd birthday party. she is the cutest kid ever.

cards for kim!

i printed these cards last week for my friend kim. the lace was printed from a plate, but the type is handset... i think i found a new favorite type.

i met my friend kim at the brooklyn flea market back in the fall, or early winter. i can hardly remember when it was because this winter just won't end! and it feels like forever. i bought one of kim's necklaces, even though i wanted to buy all of her necklaces. later at home i stalked her on the internet and wrote her an email asking her if she wanted to do a trade, and she did! so months later, i printed her some business cards for her newly re-name business of making awesome crafts. she's a good cook too- the first time i ever liked butternut squash soup! you can see more about kim on her esty site!

printing history...

"The first print shop was the garage behind the house at 829 North Virginia.  John Cavilia [my grampa] furnished it with a 1250 multilith, a large work table and a hand operated guillotine cutter.  In addition to the equipment, John taught the first sisters the art of printing..."

Sadly, I don't know the roots of my grampa's printing- where he learned to print, what he printed nor where he got a press.  In the basement at my gramma's house my grampa built a wine cellar and a "shop"- it's now filled with dusty tools, old spray paint and finger prints from all us grandkids  searching for treasures.  My gramma told me that he used to keep the press down in the shop, but when I asked for a photo she said she never went down there to take one of him printing.

My grampa was a Catholic and did a lot to help the church and fellow Renoites, the quote above is from the Carmelites of Reno website, a  monastery in Reno which started in 1958.   I knew he had set up the monastery with their first press and was happy to find mention of him on the website!

"From the time people knew that the sisters had a press, (late 1954 on) we were asked to do small "job work": letterheads for businesses (like Vaughn Millwork [my grampa's business]), business cards, invoices, etc."

I like to think that printing is in my blood and that I'm doing the same printing that my grampa did himself- and that makes me feel pretty good inside.

here is the carmelites whole printing history

brooklyn bound: 3,800 miles

the long way to new york.
directions:
-start in reno nevada
-head south
-drive 3,800
-visit your family
-visit your friends
-enjoy the sunsets
-enjoy the stars
-look for ghosts
-drive 3,800 miles
-park in bed-stuy

  

downtown reno                                                                                   somewhere between reno and vegas

   

kingman, arizona: getting on route 66

    

two guns, new mexico: abandoned "kamp"

    

santa fe, new mexico: crow's house                   marfa, texas: chamberlin's cars. 

   

texas: railroad x-ing                                                                       

sweetwater, texas: ranch house motel

gurdon, arkansas: fill the ford fully folly                             

gurdon, arkansas: awesome breakfast with emmy and buZ

nashville, tennesse: country music hall of fame

DRUM ROLL PLEASE.......

hatch show print in nashville. 

for 130 years the folks at hatch have been designing and printing posters for everyone from elvis to hank williams to tool. erik and i got a great tour from neives who is  designer and printer at hatch... walls and walls of wood type. it's so rad.

holiday cards.

when i mailed out my holiday cards i included a pencil- the idea being that everyone could draw in the faces on their photo booth strip people...no one got it! ha ha. i was thanked for the pencil more than once, that's when i realized people didn't think of the pencil as a tool for their "interactive" card. c'est la vie!! and happy new year!!

more blank books!!

practicing french groove

this book "Berna" includes 3-d glasses and an old strip of 3-d Gumby comic- my goal is to figure out how to print something in 3-d. my research has not been informative- i should probably just start experimenting to see what i can figure out, layering the blue and red and then putting on the glasses...