Wedding invitations for my friends Andy & Julie. Laser cut wood veneer, screenprinting.

This is going to be fuuuuun. And yes, print does ♥ digital.

Printer’s Ball 2010

It’s Pitchfork weekend here in Chicago and with it comes Flatstock 26, the usual gig-poster freakout fair. This year though, two of the biggest names in posters, Aesthetic Apparatus and Delicious Design League did something unique. Aside from participating in Flatstock as usual, they put together a superb poster collab, curated and hosted by The Post Family. AA and DDL traded design files back and forth for months and shared printing duties that’s resulted some epic one-of-a-kind work. Cantankerous Hellfire is up through the next three weeks. Between this event, Flatstock, and the Printer’s Ball that’s happening in two weeks, poster and printmaking enthusiasts should have no trouble finding some truly rad work in this city.

I’ve spent the last four days building an installation for The Post Family’s We Are Family opening tonight and I totally didn’t anticipate how much it would be owning me. Whoops. It’s finally up and I’m pleased with how it came out, but I’m in the weeds big time. But I’m dying to tell you about all this exciting stuff, so here’s a quickie update. It’s at least a little something until I can get some sleep, sort things out, and form proper sentences again.

By Reba Rakstad, RarRar Press

I got to do a guest post for Etsy’s blog this week! The post is all about my fave artists & printmakers on Etsy, and the inspiring color palettes they use. Big thank you to my other bloggy-friends at COLOURlovers for setting it up.

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We Are Family: Emerging Talent in Chicago:
In conjunction with Chicago Design Week 2010, the Post Family welcomes nine voices from the far reaches of Chicago’s graphic design community to the Family Room Gallery for a look at surprising, evocative and oftentimes challenging work that consistently redefines the boundaries of the field.

Participants: Also Design, Shawn Hazen, Letterform, Plural, Scott Reinhard, Sonnenzimmer, Isaac Tobin, and David Weik.
Sponsored by the AIGA Chicago, Intelligentsia Coffee, and Goose Island Brewery, and Colorphonic.

7:00 pm-11:30 pm
1821 W Hubbard St, #202
Chicago, IL 60622
Free

Lovely website & poster work by Doublenaut. Via Siteinspire.

Oh Sheet! I Forgot your Birthday:

I Yam Sorry:

My friend Julie at Letterform makes the cutest foodie-themed goodies, called Nourishing Notes. Cards are letterpressed with Julie’s illustrations on the front and complimentary witty cooking tips on the back. Tea towels are silkscreened on soft flour sacks and come in a set of two. Also, Julie’s quite a cook, see her Roasted Squash Salad she on Design*Sponge a while back.