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You regular viewers may remember this image from a few weeks ago. My school is putting on a tarot card themed print exchange this year, and I finally printed these up late last week. I made a polymer plate of the image and letterpressed them (at the IPRC) onto French Paper’s Pop-Tone Whip Cream paper.

The first 41 prints of the limited edition of 48 prints are for the print exchange, so I’ve only got the last seven up for sale in my Etsy shop.

Also: There’s about three weeks left to turn in your BEARFIGHT submissions!

Logic nerds should get some too, right? I’ve had this Valentine’s Day card idea kicking around my head for months, and when it came down to it, they almost didn’t get made. But they did, and just in time with Valentine’s Day just over two weeks away.

These would of course be fine to give to anyone you love, even long after Valentine’s Day.

Each is printed on acid-free cardstock, is blank inside, and includes a matching envelope. Available for $5 (including shipping) by using the Paypal button below.

Better almost late than never I suppose. I have had it in my head to make a tearaway shop-style calendar since I started working with the perfect binder at the IPRC, and on this the last day of 2009, here they are for 2010.

And now some process!

The base image of this dapper ghosty is a three-color screenprint on heavy cover stock. Also printed were some guides to help in calendar and hanging placement.

Now glue on the calendar part that you’ve had printed and bound for months as you’ve procrastinated on the rest of the project!

Stick ‘em all under your heaviest, most awesome book. Wait.

You’ve got calendars! You’ll notice I also put brass grommets on for hanging, instead of just punching a hole through the top. This should help it last all the way throughout the next year.

If you or someone you know needs to be reminded to be a little more dapper everyday, these are available in my Etsy shop.

Most of the letters I post on Typo Friday will be of the hand-drawn variety, but in the last week I’ve taken two letterpress classes at the IPRC, and I’m sort of in love with setting metal type, so I thought I’d show you what we came up with during the Intro to the Poster Press class last night. The teacher, Michael d’Alessandro set and printed the green, wooden type while showing us how to use the table top poster press. Then, each student got to set a small chunk of text and/or imagetype and that was locked into the press bed and everyone got a go inking up and rolling the paper over.

I did the eagle, ZAP, and stars, as if you couldn’t guess, so here’s a close-up.

Remember: 15% discount on orders of $20+ (before shipping) from the radrobot.org store or my Etsy shop.

After years and years of learning various forms of printmaking, I finally took a letterpress class at the Independent Publishing Resource Center on Thursday. I am, of course, completely enamored with the letterpress process already, and will be taking another IPRC class in letterpress poster printing later this week. There’s something about having a century-old hunk of cast iron under your control that just feels so much more heartwarming than say dragging a squeegee across a screen, not that I don’t still adore screenprinting. Anyways, everyone in class got to typeset and print a small saying and/or image, and here is mine. They are about the size of business cards in real life, printed in reflex blue on gold and recycled brown cardstock. Fun fun fun.

I’ve been working at a personal goal to fill my Etsy shop with 50 items before the end of November and promote it more to see if I can increase my views and sales, and it is paying off. I’m up to 48 items already and my Whoa Dang! t-shirt was featured on Alexander’s Designs blog this week. Go check it out and remember to support your local independent artists!

Also, check out this video. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a stop motion mural animation by Mike Nowland and Carson Ting, but what’s super rad is what happens right around 1:10. That dude totally looks familiar.

I’ve been busy making perfect-bound journals at the IPRC for the Center to sell at Wordstock this last weekend. I pulled out some old screenprinted off-prints and test-prints and used them for covers. I also found a free, airline safety manual, which made three cool covers as well.

These journals, however, will be for sale at my table at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco on October 17-18. The larger heart journals are filled with heavy, drawing paper, while the rest are a mix of different text weight papers, great for writing. All are perfect bound with a screenprinted cover, and most have rounded corners. If anyone here wants one, I’m thinking $3 for a small journal, and $5 for a larger one, plus like $2.50 for shipping.

There’s also a small journal with my “Mmm, Bacon” pig on the cover, but it has a slightly mangled corner on the cover. The first person to feel so inclined as to buy something from the store will get that journal for free. It’s still totally usable, it just ain’t as pretty as the rest.

I finally updated my Imagekind Gallery, after over a year with only my “Drink Friendly!” image in it. I’ve ordered a few prints through Imagekind and the quality is very good. You can choose what paper you’d like, and from quite a few different print sizes. They’ll even frame it for you if that’s what you’re into! For now, any of the five images above can be purchased for as low as $12.81!

I like to affectionately call this print “SharkBike.” I showed a preview of this during my screenprinting process post last week, so now that I am finished with the actual printing, here it is! Each one is 9″ by 18″ and is a three color screenprint. It will be exhibited in the Artcrank Portland Poster Show, which is being held this First Thursday at the Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon. There are 30 other artists in the show, and each one has created a bike-themed poster using some method of traditional printmaking.

Each poster in the show will be for sale for $30, with $5 from each sale going to Bikes To Rwanda. If you’re in the Portland area, this will be a very good show to get to on First Thursday tomorrow. If you don’t know, the Ace Hotel is located at 1022 SW Stark St. See you there!

I will also have some of the edition to sell here shortly, hopefully by Friday, if anyone is interested in one.

Earlier this year, around the time I decided to stop my Weekly Print site, I was preparing to cover my screenprinting pre-press method but never got a chance to. It’s a factor of my print process that I’ve wanted to share ever since, so how about today? The print is for the upcoming Artcrank PDX poster show, a bicycle-themed poster show.

Most of my prints, and other pieces, start as really quick thumbnails. I just had this concept of a SharkBike in my head with which to build. I’m also throwing around some ideas for what I wanted the lettering to say; I was trying to find some combination of sharks and bikes that seemed to make sense. I’m also starting to throw around color combo ideas.

A sketchbook is not always available when inspiration strikes, so I had to write this idea down on my internet bill envelope, which really confused my roommate when she found it on the kitchen table.

“Don’t” turned into “Never,” which I thought sounded a bit more dynamic. Also wrote down some more color ideas and final dimensions, as well as things like whether or not I should use halftones or a splattered effect in certain parts of the print.

This is the scan of my linework, actually slightly smaller than the poster itself. As you can see, I decided to draw a full front wheel, instead of looking more like a gaping shark’s mouth like I drew in the sketches. I penciled it like that, but decided the full wheel looked better.

I did in fact use a homemade ink splatter technique, scanned in, and turned into water splashing around the SharkBike.

Here’s my working file for the print. Usually, in a working file, I try to use as many layers as I need, so I can take out and add visual elements easily. This one is pretty simple though.

When I’m happy with the working file, I save a copy as my final print copy and start combining all the many layers of the working file down to only one layer per color in the final print, in this case three. I could probably go WAY in depth into this step of the process, but it’s one of those things that I’ve done so many times now that it’s second nature and I didn’t think to record the process as I was going.

The red and blue layers have a black color overlay (turned off for the image). I print out each layer separately, with the black overlay turned on, onto transparencies to use as my positives with which to expose my screen.

Final print later this week!

Even though the show isn’t until mid-September, I guess I may as well post this now. I got asked by the good folks at Tender Loving Empire to design the poster for their Musicfest NW showcase. Musicfest NW is an annual, multiple day, multiple venue music festival in Portland. It seems strange to think, for some reason, but this is actually my first foray into the world of gigposters.

I have not seen Blue Horns or Yeah Great Fine yet, but Finn Riggins, Church, and Gratitillium are all good in my book; it was a pleasure to get to do a poster for bands I enjoy.

I’m also screenprinting an edition of these. More on that later.

As part of my show at Tender Loving Empire this month, I showed four customized test prints. Whenever I screenprint, I always pull a few initial prints onto some scrap paper, and eventually these scraps pile up with layers and layers of beautiful ink. Sometimes, these layers create an interesting image on their own, but I had a few that just didn’t seem like they were going anywhere special, so I added some liquid gold leaf and ink, and there you have it.

The other two can be seen on my Flickr page.

And, here’s some ink splotch doodles I did yesterday. I’ve been watching a lot of Sifl & Olly lately, so there’s a weird lookin’ Chester too.