Prints, prince and more prints.
This Saturday, the 12th of May from 10am–4pm we’re having Black Coffee over for a cup of joe. If you like any of the following, you should join us: Prints on the wall Printers on display Prints & goods for sale Prince ...
Openness
We’ll be open to the public from 11am–4pm on Saturdays (the 5th, 12th and 19th of May to begin with), so you can come in and check out the Trophy Lives exhibition if you can’t make it tomorrow night. We’ll ...
Trophy Lives
We’re very pleased to announce the full line up for the show. It’s a collection of some very cool folks that we’ve met since moving to Melbourne. We bumped into Tin & Ed in the park – they’re friends of good ...
Guest blog on The Design Files
This week we are guest blogging on The Design Files with a bit of an overview on what goes into creating a letterpress project, from concept to execution. We’re also doing a pretty cool giveaway so make sure you head over ...
Roll your own with Malade Pathetics
While we were printing the Valentine’s Day cards, we fired up the Asbern Proof Press for the first time. The Malade Pathetics lads just happened to be in town so we invited them over to work up some linocuts and ...
Newness
The last year had more than a life of its own. It was a time that had its own bones, blood and will. It picked us up from our old lives in Brisbane, took us from our steady jobs and ...
Introducing the Asbern
We believe in creativity and craftsmanship, but sometimes it can get lost in the search for efficiency in the race to the bottom line. While the rest are searching for newer, bigger and faster we’ve been fortunate to acquire an ...
Harvest Xmas Market
The lovely ladies at Harvest Workroom are putting on the Harvest Xmas Market and it sure sounds like a lot of fun. It’s going to be our first market, but I think we’ll be just fine because we’ll be there ...
Gold, gold, silver, silver & bronze
We just found out that our letterpress work has received a few more awards, so rather than make a new post we thought we would just update this one: The Queensland leg of the 2011 Printing Industries Craftsmanship Awards (PICA) were held ...
Our Melbourne letterpress workshop
We’ve finally done it. We packed up our trusty press on a warm, sunny morning in Brisbane and it arrived a few days later on a quintessentially contrasting cool and overcast Melbourne afternoon. As we waited for the press to arrive, we ...
Dawn Press x The Hungry Workshop
Down in the belly of Goodtime Studio, in the basement of an old hospital, Dawn Press is one of the few commercial RISO printers in Australia. The man behind the machine is Xavier, but he’s off in New York meeting, ...
