The Starshaped Press Self Promotional Packet | Starshaped Press, USA
The Starshaped Self Promotional Packet was a year-in-the-making collection of prints designed to showcase all of the charms and strengths of working exclusively with antique metal and wood type, the chosen method for all custom projects designed and printed in the studio. Because our design work and type collection readily lend themselves to four main typographic approaches, there are four pieces that highlight each of these. The Titanic piece features type produced before 1912, the Chicago piece is more mid-century with type and ornaments representing that period, the ragtime/silent film-inspired piece focuses on phrases and type of the 20’s, and the labor history piece takes a democratic approach to design, giving equal billing to the collections of popular quotes and ideas of the movement in a rally-inspired format. Each of the four inserts has a photograph of the form (the setup for the letterpress printing) offset printed on the backside so that the viewer can see exactly how it was created. The outer folder is hand sewn and holds all of the pieces and a business card, while including a short blurb on the importance of preserving and making these materials available to our clients now.
Unique Letter Art by Isabelle Krieg
Type the Sky by Lisa Rienermann
Lisa Rienermann‘s wonderful project ‘Type the Sky’ is a series of photographs that form the alphabet from the shapes of the buildings seen when standing right underneath them and looking up toward the sky.