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Metal Type on Paper
I started taking a great letterpress class this month, taught by Gerald Lange, in Otis College of Art and Design’s Continuing Ed. program. So far we have seen some of Gerald’s fantastic work and that...
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Busy Lately…
Things have been getting busy round the Rise Industries Studios West. In addition to some interesting freelance projects, and the continued saga of the furniture design venture, I have moved into a new...
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Simplicity isn’t simple.
Last night I ran the first prints of my polymer plate design for the letterpress class I am taking. After a very slow start, things seemed to be going quite well – got the plate located properly, paper...
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Printing Guilloché
For my second print in the letterpress class I have been taking over at Otis, I wanted to work with Guilloché patterns – those complex geometric patterns used on currency and other documents for...
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Prints Available
Oh, by the way, my recent letterpress prints are now available on Etsy. So if you are dying to get your hands on some 100% cotton paper that has been cranked through a really old, bad-ass machine,...
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DIY Backpack
I am constructing my own lightweight backcountry backpack… I was inspired by Ray Jardine’s book “Trail Life” to do it. Ray sells inexpensive “Ray-Way” kits on his website with which you can make all...
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A little tree graph
A little something I learned today on a hike up to Sturtevant Falls.
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A little light reading
People at work kept asking me how many pages I read in a day, since I often spend my lunchtime reading a hefty novel. So I put this handy info-graphic together.
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Postcards from Portland
I made some postcards from a couple of photos I took while in Portland a week or so ago. These were shot on my trusty Yashica medium format camera in the Portland Japanese Garden.
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