CHECK OUT OUR PERKS! 20% OFF SALE!
All of our prints and book perks are on sale for 20% off until the end of the campaign!
To show our appreciation of your support, we are really excited to offer a TON of amazing perks offered by artists, printers, poets and makers from around the world (many were made by Letterpress Depot board members and friends). There is something for everyone – letterpress prints (of course!), lithography and screenprints; poetry books and broadsides; Letterpress Depot swag; custom print runs and workshops – offered at many price points. Be sure to also check out our Letterpress Depot membership options or consider becoming a major benefactor by contributing to one of our giving circles. All perks ship FREE within the U.S.!
NEW PERKS!
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NEW PERK! Save $25 on your next order from Virgin Wood Type! They, "offer pantograph-cut wood type in a variety of font schemes and sizes," with designs "from original American Wood Type patterns, revived and redesigned victorian faces, and brand new faces never before cut into wood."
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NEW PERK! ON SALE! Perfect for the quilter or crafter in your life who also appreciates these beauty of the printed and written word! Typographic Fabric Bundles come in assorted colors.
FEATURED PERKS!
This week we're featuring two workshops with superstar letterpress printers!
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We are really excited to offer an Ornamental Type Workshop with superstar printer Jennifer Farrell of Starshaped Press out of Chicago, IL. Join her to brush up on your understanding of typography and letterforms and to learn how to create large, pictorial images with just type and metal ornaments. This class will explore tips and tricks to get the best results from metal type. Beginners and seasoned veterans welcome! Jennifer with travel to Denver to work with the first 8 lucky donors who give $300 towards this workshop perk.
Since 1999, Jennifer Farrell has run Starshaped Press creating a wide range of design and letterpress items. All work in the shop is done with metal and wood type, making it one of the few presses in the country producing commercial work while preserving antique type and related print.
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We are also thrilled to offer a one and a half day workshop with Brad Vetter of Brad Vetter Design. Join us to explore new (and old) techniques in letterpress printing. We will be covering the basics, but also digging deep into some fun alternative image-making with antique type and presses. The workshop will focus primarily on Pressure Printing, a non-traditional letterpress technique that creates unique and spontaneous images. Together we will "master" this process while applying skills in typography, printing and designing for the letterpress. Brad with travel to Denver to work with the first 8 lucky donors who give $300 towards this workshop perk.
Brad Vetter is a designer, artist, educator and letterpress printer. After studying graphic design at Western Kentucky University, Brad spent eight years honing his craft at the legendary Hatch Show Print in Nashville, TN, one of the oldest letterpress print shops in the country. Brad left Hatch in 2012 to start his own letterpress and design studio. Bouncing between 18th and 21st century technology and techniques, he continues to hand print rock-and-roll posters while also adding more digital design to his repertoire. Brad frequently lectures and hosts workshops throughout the U.S. as well as teaching college-level design classes. His print work has been shown in such notable venues as the San Francisco MoMA, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper, and the Danish Museum of Media.
ALL OF OUR PERKS!
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Virtual High Fives for $1! Or a letterpress Thank You Postcard at $5 each.
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ON SALE! A Pair 'o Koozies (left) reading "Hold My Beer While I Print Koozies" at $8 and a Postcard Set of 4 - Healthcare (right) – witty, handset with vintage type healthcare inspired messages for $12.
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ON SALE! Postcard Set of 6 - Antiwar postcards (left) quirky, handset with vintage type for $12 and Emily Easton's witty and wry handset with vintage type Mom's Words Print (right) for $12.
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ON SALE! Koozie and Mystery Print (left). For your donation of $16 you will receive a unique, custom letterpress print that you can admire with the koozie-cosseted beverage of your choice.
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ON SALE! For lovers of blackletter type with a twisted sense of humor we have three 13x25" screenprinted Public Notices from Portland based poster publisher Serigraphic Systems for only $16 each! From left to right "Homeless Present", Controlled Substance" and "Art is Dead".
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ON SALE! Your new favorite T-shirt! Support the Letterpress Depot in style with a $24 donation and receive our super soft, tri-blend Letterpress Depot T-shirt with screenprinted designs on front and back.
Lovers of puns in the sun can choose the handset Parenthe(seas) print by Denver artist Heather Link-Bergman for $24 which will look shipshape in any space.
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Join us on our journey with a Letterpress Depot Annual Membership! Choose from various membership options that meet your needs and budget including Annual ($30), Household ($55) and Supporting ($100) Memberships. All members stay in the know with email updates, 10% discounts of classes, workshops and items purchased at the Letterpress Depot Shop along with premier access to research materials.
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ON SALE! Can't decide between a print and poetry? You don't have to when you donate $24 to receive a Poetry Mystery Print! Unique poetry broadsides printed by either Now It's Up To You Press or by Wood Works Press!
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ON SALE! Only 1 Left! This fun and patriotic Firecracker Press Kite Print Mickey poster was made with a combination of metal printing plates, originally used to decorate Alox kites, and new woodcuts, designed and handcut by The Firecracker Press. Your with your $24 donation!
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Show your support to one of our donors in style with with A Small Print Shop Bundle for $32 – a coordinating t-shirt, tote bag and sticker (not pictured). T-shirt is size large.
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ON SALE! For admirers of typographic beauty, we offer the Types of Beauty Set #1 poster set (left) featuring ravishing, historic metal and wood type designs from the archive of Now It's Up To You Press printed by Tom Parson for a donation of $32.
ON SALE! Only 1 left! For a donation of $40, dive into the rich and hilarious history of the art pranks and hijinks of international art syndicate the Institute of Sociometry with their 130-page is Press EMANCIPATION Book (right). Edited by Peter Miles Bergman and Zoe Larkins, this hand-bound Japanese stitch book features a 2-color letterpress printed cover.
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ON SALE! We’re back with even more Kwiatkowski Press prints from Denver-based artist Frank Kwiatkowski, aka the Father of the Cone Cut! Each print is carved from a flattened out traffic cone and can be yours for $32 each. Top to bottom, left to right: Medusa, Physician, Fossil, Sleep.
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ON SALE! Only One Left! For lovers of travel, art and poetry, pick this beautiful Transport Artist Book by Denver-based artist and poet Alicita Rodriguez for a donation of $32. Pack it as a companion for your next journey or keep as something to savor when you return home!
NEW PERK! If you want a 2-color letterpress poster that really captures the magic of prints and type flying off the press for a donation of $32 select the Type Press Print Poster signed and numbered by Nancy Bernardo & Blayke Mackenzie Morrow!
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ON SALE! Put Your Name On Our Furniture – engraved on a piece of the Letterpress Depot's 20 pica furniture so we can remember your generous donation of $32 each time we lock up a job! If you want one for yourself order two! We'll keep one and mail the other one to you!
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ON SALE! Only 1 Left! This stunning abstract 24x24" 1-color Rubikon Screenprint signed and numbered in an edition of 20 is printed by Portland based poster publisher Serigraphic Systems! Cyclone (in neon pink) is available for a $32 donation. Lexikon (in black) went fast! Don't sleep on this one!
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ON SALE! Each Wood Works Press Poetry Set #1 chapbook (left) is printed from hand-set metal types on archival quality papers, with original woodcuts from cherry & maple blocks, in numbered, limited editions. Poetry Set #1 includes: Rembrandt, Chainsaw by Clemens Stark, Blueberry Pie by James Snydal, The Hole in Sleep by Corey Mesler and Naked Woman by Juan Ramon Jimenez. Get the entire set for a donation of $40!
Paul Hunter is a poet, musician, instrument-maker, teacher, and editor and publisher. For over two decades, he has produced letterpress books and broadsides under the imprint of Wood Works Press in Seattle. For a donation of $50 you will receive the Paul Hunter Poetry Set four of his books of poetry: Ripening, Breaking Ground, Come the Harvest and Stubble Field!
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ON SALE! Choose one of these posters from our Inaugural Letterpress Poster Series created by printers from around the world for a reduced price of $40! Each poster has a railroad theme – our building is a train depot after all! From Left to Right: Birdwood Press Print, Shepherd Letterpress Print and Baltimore Print Services Print!
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ON SALE! These fine lined typographically inspired 18x24" Jerry Inscoe Screenprints are by internationally recognized artist Jerry Inscoe and printed by Portland based poster publisher Serigraphic Systems. Editions of 20, these prints are signed and numbered. For a donation of $40 choose between "Bones" (white) and "Skin" (Black).
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ON SALE! Choose one of these posters from our Inaugural Letterpress Poster Series created by printers from around the world for a donation of $48! Each poster has a railroad theme – our building is a train depot after all! From Left to Right: Strong Arm Press Print and Carimbo Letterpress Print!
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ON SALE! Created as a companion pieces, Time Out + No Diving Print Duo are 11" x 13" lithographic prints by Denver artist Heather Link-Bergman blend four intricately interlocked washes of color each to render reflections of places and moments past and present. Receive the set of two for your donation of $60.
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ON SALE! Choose one of these posters from our Inaugural Letterpress Poster Series created by printers from around the world! Each poster has a railroad theme – our building is a train depot after all! From Left to Right, Top to Bottom: Inky Lips Print ($68), Brad Vetter Design Print ($68), Keegan and Meegan Print ($80) and Genghis Kern Print ($68)
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Want to create your own letterpress postcard? Impress your friends with letterpress business cards? Or do you want to get your hands dirty with us by joining one of our Denver-based master printers in their shop to learn how to design, handset and print your own custom postcards? Unique letterpress experiences await with our Custom Letterpress Postcards ($100), Custom Business Cards ($150) and You Print 'Em Postcards ($200)!
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ON SALE! Reminiscent of warm summer days, choose the 4-color, hand separated lithographic Summer Vibes Print (left) by Denver artist Heather Link-Bergman for a donation of $80.
ON SALE! Mario Zoots is one of the leading artists in modern photographic collage and appropriation. Using vintage photographs and old Hollywood film stills with a mixture of his own photography, he creates seductive and fascinating collages that bear qualities of Surrealism and Dada. an original 11" x 14" Mario Zoots Collage (right) for $240.
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Want a way to really help us out, have your choice of a large selection of our perks and receive your own special edition of letterpress posters? Then consider donating to one of our major giving circles! Frederic Goudy Circle members receive all of the above. William Morris Circle members receive all of the above and 5 hours of design and production consultation on their own personal project. Ben Franklin Circle members receive the above membership, perks and special edition prints plus a print run of 500 custom prints, 2-colors, up to 5x7 inches. See each perk for specific details.
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Want a way to REALLY help us out; have your choice of $500 worth of our perks; receive a print run of 100 handset letterpress posters; receive two print runs of 500 custom prints, 2-colors, up to 5x7" AND gain exclusive access to an immersive letterpress experience for you and 3 of your friends? Then consider donating to the Johannes Guttenberg Circle. Just as Johannes Guttenberg is the father of printing, you will become a major figure in the legacy of the Letterpress Depot.
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Gratefully,
The Letterpress Depot
THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL OF OUR MAJOR DONORS!
Johannes Gutenberg Circle:
Publication Printers
William Morris Circle:
the Wyoming Bergmans
Tom Speer
Peter Waldor
Peter Bergman and Heather Link-Bergman
Tom and Patti Parson
Ken and Joyce Letzler
Martha Cooper
Paul Hunter
Polly and Bill Parson
Frederic Goudy Circle:
Annette and Tom DeMay
Amy Kitt
Miles O’Brien
Jenny Thomas and Dan Sjogren
Alicia Bailey
Linda Winslow
George Hamilton
Bill Whitley
Lisa Abendroth and Eric Grattan
The Letterpress Depot is also supported by generous grants from:
G.E. Johnson Construction Company