Another fun cookbook

The pink pages are actually divider pockets between each section in the cookbook, such a great little pattern.

Prancing Carrots

I was looking through some of my old cookbooks this weekend and so many of them contain such great illustration so I'm going to scan various ones and post them throughout the week. This particular one always makes me smile because the illustrations are so silly. This cookbook was made by Metropolitan Life Insurance in 1957 as some sort of promotion or giveaway I'd guess.

I especially love the dancing carrot and the steak with the microphone.

Happy Friday!

I took this while on a photo shoot in the Dogpatch area of SF. I liked it because it's more industrial and while not your typical San Francisco beauty shot, it's lovely view in it's own way.

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

T-shirt designs for Georgie World

Although it is extremely foggy and a bit chilly here today in SF, here are two of four summer t-shirt designs we did for adorable clothing maker Georgie World. Their clothes have a fun, retro vibe so naturally we were very excited to work with them.

We'll post the rest of the designs once the shirts are printed. Hope the rest of you are getting some sun today!

Freitag

I received this Freitag bag as a gift yesterday and I thought it was so great I decided to post about it. Freitag is a Swiss company that makes all their products using original recycled materials – used truck tarps, used car seat belts, used air bags and used bicycle inner tubes.

















My bag was bought in the Zurich store which is made out of shipping containers. The packaging of the bag was beautiful and they sew the shopping bags shut with thread when you check out. I home someday to check out this amazing store in person. Has anyone been to it?






















































Check out their website here.

Happy Halloween!

Hot off the presses! Some Halloween letterpress card designs for Hello!Lucky. Halloween is probably our favorite holiday so these were a dream come true to make. Click on the image to see it larger.

They'll be available soon here.

Gocco Process

We get a lot of emails asking questions along the lines of "what the heck is a Gocco?, so hopefully this post will satisfy those inquiring minds. When we printed the second edition of the kite series we tried to take a few photos to help demonstrate. This is a pretty basic walk through, there are many wonderful tutorials online that show the process more in depth.

No. 1. Gocco is similar to screen printing except the image is burned onto the screen through carbon based imagery, such as a photocopy or printout or by drawing directly onto the screen using one of those Gocco pens. However you want to make the magic happen is up to you. We have a little black and white printer and it's been working great so far.

No. 2. After you burn the screen it looks like this. We usually put foam blockers around the image to keep the ink where we want it.














No. 3. Mix your colors and put them on the screen. Here's the first color, a lovely blue.














No.4. Put the screen back in the gocco and start printing! Do a test print to make sure everything prints a-ok.



























No.5 Let your first color dry.














Voila, the prints after the second color, all ready to be trimmed out signed.