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New Work Up!

New Work Up!

Head on over to the portfolio page to check out some of the new work!Click here.

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2018 APA Retro'Goose, come and gone

2018 APA Retro'Goose, come and gone

A week has already flown by since the conclusion of the 2018 'Goose. As always there's a sense of melancholy that comes along with these kinds of events. For a weekend you are surrounded by like-minded people — good people — who are talented and experienced in letterpress, spanning so many generations. You reconnect with old friends and meet new ones. You talk type, presses, the state of things, the here's and the there's. There's a common ground with all printers and I take comfort in that.The inspiration drawn from the event is it's own beast and it's up to...

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2018 APA Retro'goose!

2018 APA Retro'goose!

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The 'Goose is Loose!

Online and mail-in registration are live for the 2018 APA Retro'Goose.Auction pictures and list of items are up. 65+ wood type fonts and hundreds of lead type for sale. Plus a press, rare books, type cabinets and more!Click here for more info.

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Dogs & Stars Art Show With Jeff Holland — March 2

Dogs & Stars Art Show With Jeff Holland — March 2

Just announced! I've been invited to 'open' (if you will) for my good friend Jeff Holland's music poster show in Denver. I started listening to Jeff's fantastic radio show on 1190 — Route 78 West — in the early 2000s. He used to go on at 10am on Sundays and and play 2 hours of Honky Tonk, Americana, Swing, Drone, Hippie, Modal, etc — and I'd run into him at a rock show and say sometimes I don't wake up in time to catch the show. He'd roll his eyes and begin setting up his live taping for the band we we...

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Vintage Valentines Make + Take / Feb. 3

I'm excited to be a part of this upcoming event!Join us for a morning of making at the Museum of Boulder! Make missives for your loved ones using the Museum's historic Valentine collection (reproductions of course!), plus letterpress images, doilies, and other collage materials.Peruse our Valentine collection for inspiration. Watch Brian Wood (Dogs & Stars Letterpress) run some prints on a tabletop press (that's me!). Practice your calligraphy skills with Cha Cha or have her add some hand lettered touches to your cards.We'll provide all of the materials, just bring your creative spirit!Ticket includes: snacks + all materials needed to make...

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Open Studio — March 24th 10am-4pm

News Open Studio

In conjunction with MoPrint's Month of Printmaking I will be joining several other Denver area (and beyond!) printmaking studios, where we will open our doors to all for a day of demos, sales and tours on Saturday, March 24 from 10am-4pm. I'm sure there will be free beers for those that visit my shop.  507 East Cannon St, Lafayette, CO.FROM MOPRINT.COMThe Denver-metro area has a growing community of printmakers and they want to show off their studios and artwork to you.  On March 24, 2018 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. you can meet them in their work environments to see where...

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Book: Gutenberg's Fingerprint: Paper, Pixels and the Lasting Impression of Book

This is not yet a review as I just got started on this book. But any book that has a lot to do with letterpress is surely worth a read. Or try at the very least.I picked up "Gutenberg's Fingerprint" at my local library. So far the author has met a letterpress printer named Hugh Barclay from Thee Hellbox Press. She has made a studio visit and is first introduced to letterpress.  

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Guest Speaking at CSU — Upper Level Typography Class

I had the pleasure of being a guest lecturer for a typography-based graphic design class at CSU, recently. This was my first guest speaking appearance at a university and from my understanding my babbling — which I now call Tangent Talking — wasn't half bad. Bringing in several fonts of wood type to the class I thought it would bring the relationship of typography of today with the old ways right into focus for the young students. I set up a demo and and even did some trivia with giveaways for anyone who had the right guess to the letterpress-related questions...

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New Press on Dogs & Stars — Hero Media Arts

Check it out! Hero Media Arts has posted a nice, little piece on Dogs & Stars. Click here for the more pics and to read it on their site.  In a world that gets more technologically focused by the day, it’s refreshing to learn about others who are going back to their industrial roots. Brian Wood, owner of Dogs and Stars Letterpress and Design, in Lafayette Colorado, has always had a love for the designs of yesterday; old muscle cars, rusting signage, and vinyl. And what designer with a love for type and all things built-to-last wouldn’t also have a...

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Podcast: Good Life Project — Letterpress Workshop

The host takes a letterpress workshop as a way of getting in touch with a tactile, hands-on experience. Sound like fun — click here for the Dogs & Stars workshop page  Click here to listen to the podcast. "As the world has gone digital, we feel pain. Sure, there are benefits to an electronic existence, but truth is, we are wired to experience life in a more tactile, touch-driven way. Pinching, sliding and tapping screens doesn’t cut it. We need to touch, create, make and build with our hands, bodies and tools, working with materials in three-dimension. Right now, that...

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Countdown to the Hamilton Wayzgoose!

Now in its ninth year, the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum annual Wayzgoose Type Conference hosts designers, printers, typographers and letter geeks of all stripes from across the globe. Register to join us for November 3, 4 and 5, 2017. This year we have some spectacular speakers, including Gail Anderson, Jonathan Hoefler, Brian & Kim French, Brad Vetter, Carolyn Porter, Julie Sola, Jenny Wilkson, Patterson Clark and more! Check here for the Wayzgoose schedule and see more about the speakers here.______________Last time I was at Hamilton it was for the APA Wayzgoose that was hosted there. Same great location, but a different event as the folks putting it on were from the APA...

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2 Great Letterpress Events — Friday Oct. 13

OPEN STUDIO/ART SHOW at Furniture Creative Co-workingGenghis Kern is hosting a happy hour on Friday to show off the work of visiting artist Brad Vetter from Lexington, KY. Brad is in town hosting a workshop for the Letterpress Depot - there is still time to sign up! - and will have his posters on display Friday night from 5-7:30.www.furniturecoworking.com  OPEN STUDIO at Sweet LetterpressFriday, October 13th — 5-9pm237 Coffman Street, between 2nd and 3rd{ In the carriage house, behind the main brick house } Free beer while it lasts!www.sweetletterpress.com

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The L.A. Printers Fair

I've always wanted to go to the LA Printer's Fair — seems like my kind of event!For the last couple of years I have asked my LA friends to go and scope out letterpress goodies from the fair. I've gotten some great type and cuts as well as discovered some great resources thanks to my friends reconnaissance.  There's a fun little article on it here: http://laist.com/2017/10/06/la_printers_fair.phpFull article text from the laist.com: Newspapers and magazines have been shuttering their print editions almost as quickly as you can say “pivot to video,” but print’s not dead quite yet—at least not if the International Printing Museum can help it. The old-school Carson...

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Windmill Press Move!

Press moving day is always an adventure. First, you often are meeting new, wonderful people. The folks who made this move happen and anyone I've ever met in a letterpress situation is someone I immediately like and who will likely become a friend for life. This press move was no exception. Ron, the mover, Tom the awesome guy who gave us the 2 presses and my friend, Jason. All great people and integral in getting the press from point A to my shop.Second, the actual moving is always a feat involving problem solving, quick thinking and a little brawn at...

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