All posts tagged Letterpress

21 Posts

December 4, 2012 · The Blog

OMGXMAS Sale

Now is the time to grab life by the snow globes! To make sure you’ve got all your paper products on hand in time for the big day (and to celebrate our biggest shop update ever) we’re having a little sale. There are loads of new products, including the Rituals prints and the entire range of Calligraphuck cards.

Use the code ‘OMGXMAS’ when you check out to get 20% off everything in the shop on orders over $20. This code is good until this Friday, 7 December at 5pm, click click.

If you can make it into the workshop, we will be open to the public with 20% off on Sunday 16 and 23 of December if you want to grab some paper goods in the flesh. You’ll also be able to see Rituals hanging on the walls too.

November 26, 2012 · The Blog

R ii T U A L S

Returning from its successful debut in Sydney at Koskela, Rituals has arrived in Melbourne for its second showing. The exhibition features limited edition prints and unique, one-of-a-kind overprints combining the work of Beci Orpin, Ben Ashton-Bell, Drunk Park, Eirian Chapman, Georgia Perry, Kindred Studio, Lauren Carney, Luke Lucas, Malade Pathetics and Spew Corp. Rituals explores the concept of identity, collaboration and the unintended compositions that come through the ritual of printmaking.

The exhibition opens in Melbourne this coming Sunday, 2 December, from 5–7pm, at our Northcote workshop.

If you’re able to join us, please RSVP on Facebook. The exhibition will be running alongside our Christmas trading hours – we’ll be open to the public on Sundays from 10am–4pm each week leading up to Christmas so if you can’t make it this Sunday you can pop in later for another peek. We’ll also have the full range of Trophy Lives prints, cards and aerograms available.

September 7, 2012 · The Blog

A ritual preview

Rituals is taking shape. The exhibition will feature limited edition prints and unique, one-of-a-kind overprints combining the work of Beci Orpin, Ben Ashton-Bell, Drunk Park, Eirian Chapman, Georgia Perry, Kindred Studio, Lauren Carney, Luke Lucas, Malade Pathetics and Spew Corp. If you are in Sydney and keen on illustration, printmaking and letterpress, join us on Saturday 22 September from 5–7pm at Koskela for the opening night.

August 30, 2012 · The Blog

Market Square

Our letterpress prints for the Trophy Lives exhibition will be available this Friday 31 August at Market Square. The event is the first quarterly art market and will feature great prints and artwork from a range of contributors, but that’s not all: Trophy Wife Nail Art will be there along with Son Valise JukeCases and Sticky Fingers Bakery; our High Street neighbours, Perimeter Books, will be in attendance as well as the silver airstream bus from Dumbo Feather; and there’ll be jewellery from Henrietta Walker and Two Hills. The list goes on…

August 27, 2012 · The Blog

A Speaking Engagement

Sex, Drugs & Helvetica is happening again this year and we’re thrilled to be speaking alongside a handful of excellent Melbourne designers. The program will provide an in-depth account of individual projects from us and the likes of Chase & Galley, Motherbird, Beyond the Pixels, Büro North and Luke Lucas. If you’re in the design industry – or thinking about getting in – and are in Melbourne on the 28th of September you should join us for what will be an an interesting day of insight and inspiration.

Tickets available here.

August 24, 2012 · The Blog

Rituals

August 14, 2012 · The Blog

Craft Cubed Open Studio

Craft Cubed is an annual festival held across Melbourne. An initiative of Craft Victoria the event has an impressive list of activities including professional development courses, exhibitions, markets, workshops and open studios.

As part of the festival we will be opening our doors this Saturday the 18th of August, from 2–4pm. Come along, have a look and ask some questions. We’ll be doing a live print demonstration at 3pm and, if all goes according to plan, you’ll be able to walk away with a print of your own, fresh off the press.

June 26, 2012 · The Blog

The Hungry Intern

The Hungry Workshop is looking to fill a full-time, three-month, paid internship role starting 16 July 2012. We’re not your average design studio. We are a studio specialising in crafted executions of conceptual design through letterpress. Design is communication, and letterpress is an expressive, commercial scale printmaking tool.

May 23, 2012 · The Blog

Published by Process

An honour would be an understatement. Process Journal is a Melbourne based, quarterly design journal that delivers in depth profiles and interviews from Australia and across the globe. It is carefully curated, edited, designed and published by Thomas Williams from Hunt Studio and Nic Cary of Studio Verse. The studios and people they have profiled in previous editions include Christopher Doyle, Farrow, Holt Design, HORT, Toko, Wieden+Kennedy, Underware, Alt Group, It’s Nice That, Studio Round, Frost* Design, 2br, Bibliotheque, Fabio Ongarato Design, Studio Newwork, Klim Type Foundry, North, Stockholm Design Lab, and Büro North to name but a few.

April 10, 2012 · The Blog

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 friends. Eamo Donelly dropped by one day to say hello. Drunk Park did the same with his extremely talented lady friend, and they’ve become our excellent pals. Eirian Chapman lives just around the corner from our new workshop. And Letitia Buchan was one of the very, very first people to get in touch with us before we even moved down here.

November 27, 2011 · The Blog

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 recently and we netted a Gold and Silver in the newcomer category for the two pieces we entered.

Previously, the 2011 Brisbane Advertising and Design Club (BADC) Awards were held and we were delighted to receive a myriad of texts from our friends who were attending. We had entered three pieces, and each one picked up an award!

First up, we recieved a Bronze in the Corporate Design category from the BADC for our work on Mei Yen’s branding.

Secondly, we picked up a Gold from PICA and Silver from BADC for our Aim True Sketchbooks.

And lastly, we were delighted to find out that our invitation for Jaimee + JK’s Story Book Wedding picked up a Silver PICA and a Gold at BADC (!) in the general Graphic Design category. We are absolutely floored and humbled by the result.

We certainly weren’t expecting to win, particularly not ~~THREE~~ FIVE awards (otherwise we would have been up there to celebrate). Fortunately, Jaimee was there to get up on stage, receive the gold on our behalf at BADC and make an impromptu speech.

If we were to make a speech, we have to thank all of our beautiful, trusting clients for letting us work the way we do and the Brisbane creative community for their support, particularly the BADC committee and the judges of this year’s awards for their discerning taste. And we would also thank our mums.

We are delighted that both our design and our printing skills have been recognised by their respective industries.

November 27, 2011 · The Blog

Gold, gold, silver, silver & bronze

The Queensland leg of the 2011 Printing Industries Craftsmanship Awards (PICA) were held recently and we netted a Gold and Silver in the newcomer category for the two pieces we entered.

October 17, 2011 · The Blog

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 applied a little bit of elbow grease by mopping and prepping the space.

With the press installed, we started work on the finishing touches. Jenna painstakingly put up our Aim True wallpaper, while Simon built the shelves and unpacked the boxes. We set up our desks with leather and steel chairs which we sourced from a combination of op-shops, council pickup and eBay.

Our new workshop at 54 Hope Street in Brunswick is humble, but it is ours and we love it dearly. If you are in the area we would welcome a visit any time. You don’t have to bring cake, but we won’t turn you away if you do. We are so very grateful to our warehouse neighbours, the Taco Truck and Beatbox Kitchen for having us. Apt neighbours for The Hungry Workshop, wouldn’t you agree?

September 2, 2011 · The Blog

We ♥ Newy…

We had the most spectacular time in Newcastle speaking at Look Hear. It far exceeded our expectations. We weren’t as nervous as we thought we were going to be, in fact, I think we kind of liked it up there behind the podium. Our biggest thanks go out to Carl and Lara of Zookraft who did an incredible job putting the show together.

First up on the night, Suzanne Bocallate gave the audience a choice between two talks, an inspirational lecture or a discourse on tactility. Thankfully the crowd settled on the later, because tactility is something we very much relate to here. She spoke about her work too, in particular this striking studio project Trunk Volume One: Hair.

Second to take the stage was Brendan Mcknight, the editor of Desktop Magazine. This young whippersnapper is responsible for the incredibly succesful relaunch of the magazine in the last few months. He gave a very interesting overview of his personal history and in-depth account of how he and his team breathed new life into the publication.

Then it was our turn! We spoke about how we got to where we are and where we are heading in the future, with a few inspirational bits at the end (knit mittens, be the Ninja Turtles and listen to rap). A big thanks to all those people that asked questions after the talk and came up and spoke to us personally, it was a quite a thrill meeting all the people we did in Newcastle. There is so much talent and love in that town, it really is incredible.

We met Lachie and Nick, two enterprising students who have released a typeface called Quaver with Lost Type. For those that don’t know, Lost Type is a pretty cool new font foundry with a ‘Pay-What-You-Want’ model. We already had two projects in the works that use fonts from Lost Type so we were super stoked when we found out that Lachie and Nick were responsible for Quaver. It comes in Sans and Serif and has over 400 glyphs(!), get on it.

Quaver - Lost Type

We also managed to get a few words with the guys from Malade Pathetics, an emerging clothing label based in Newcastle. These guys are doing incredible work, if you don’t believe me you should watch this clip of them vs. Secret Wars at Look See.

The next day, Carl and Lara gave as a tour of Newcastle University where we inspected the University’s letterpress setup and type collection. We also found out that Newcastle University is the only place in Australia you can get a degree in natural history illustration. They pretty much draw dead animals all day, how cool is that?

Photos on the night courtesy of Kel Mcintosh

May 18, 2011 · The Blog

Tuesday night at the movies {episode two}

There is an old saying that’s very apt right now: ‘Better late than never’. This episode of Tuesday night at the movies comes to you a day late, but we think it is certainly worth the wait. This movie is a great overview of the printing industry at it’s finest. If you’re not convinced to join the legions of printers by this film, you never will.

How could you not, when the working conditions are generally satisfactory?

May 13, 2011 · The Blog

Queenslake letterpress prints half price

We’ve had such an excellent response to the Queenslake project. Thanks to everyone who came along and purchased prints at both the Melbourne and Brisbane exhibitions, along with those who purchased online over, $10,000 has been raised!

We have reduced the price of all the remaining prints by 50%, which means you can get two prints for the price of one. Or three prints for the price of one and a half. Whichever way you look at it, it’s a great offer, and makes supporting the ongoing relief effort in Queensland a little bit more enticing.

So what are you waiting for? Head on over to our online shop and get yourself a limited edition letterpress print from some amazing talent!

May 10, 2011 · The Blog

Tuesday night at the movies {episode one}

Hello dear readers,

Tonight we have a special screening of some rare archival footage. Take a step back in time as you watch and learn about the wonders of The Art of Bookbinding.

You may need to go and make yourself a cup of tea first and settle in, as the running time of tonight’s film is a whopping ten minutes.

Not so fussed about bookbinding? Don’t despair! We have a series of these educational and informative films to share with you covering diverse subject matter from typesetting to our personal favourite: printing (the only way way they knew how back then, letterpress!), so make sure you tune in next Tuesday for the next thrilling installment.

March 29, 2011 · The Blog

Queenslake is heading south!

We are very excited to announce that the Queenslake letterpress exhibition will be displayed alongside the Six Years Later magazine launch on Friday 15th to Sunday 18th April at 1000 Pound Bend in Melbourne. From the sounds of this excerpt from Six Years Later the opening night is going to be spectacular:

The lovely folks at 1000 Pound Bend have kindly decided to host our not so little opening night, so make sure you head down on Friday the 15th of April. You’ll be given the red carpet treatment and embraced by the luscious beats of DJ Dom Cazeaux. Doors open 6.30 with the party going into the wee hours of 10pm.

So if you are down that way, RSVP to the event on Facebook, and come along!

And here’s where to go:

March 5, 2011 · The Blog

On the night of Queenslake

What kind of evening typifies Queensland for you? The humidity was high and there was rain fluctuating from spurts to pours, but this didn’t slow the punters for Queenslake.

The turnout was humbling. We heard reports of people waiting up to 45 minutes to join us inside the sweaty bar to view letterpress prints from some of Queensland’s leading designers and illustrators. At this stage we haven’t received official numbers from Kerbside, but the bar was kept at capacity from 6:30pm to late in the evening. With over 300 RSVPs to the event on Facebook we are confident that we cleared that number through the door, if not more.

The lads behind the bar did a wonderful job slinging ciders, keeping the crowd cool while the subtle sounds of Pat Tierney’s acoustic crooning filled the wet air. It was great to see a good mix of Brisbane’s advertising and design industry coming together to celebrate the craft and creativity of local talents.

And celebrate we did, raising over $9,900 on the night alone. Though this is just the beginning, the prints are now for sale here, and you can also view more pictures of the prints in Part 1, 2 and 3 of the catalogue.

Queenslake Letterpress Exhibition. from Camille Santiago on Vimeo.

The amazing video and the photos above were taken by Camille, you should check out her blog. The photos below were taken by Anna, she’s not even on Facebook!

[imagebrowser id=1]

January 9, 2011 · The Blog

There goes the neighbourhood…

Saturday morning kicked off with a series of synchronised alarms. We were up and out by 6am to prepare our press’ new home. Simon’s brother ‘Salty’ met us there to assist in clearing the area and preparing essential nutrition for the day: peanut butter (all the way from NYC) on toast. We split up the team: Jenna went to the commercial printer where the machine was located to rendezvous with Bob, our Heidelberg engineer, and the trucky, while Simon and Salty went to pick up a palette jack.

When Jenna arrived Bob had already checked the machine and had begun to prepare it for the move. One poor sod who had the Saturday shift was on forklift duty and after securing the eye-bolt and raising the forklift till it almost hit the ceiling, off we went. Until we approached the door. A cautious Bob saved it from a near miss with the roof! Mr Forklift had to put the machine down, drive around, pick it up from the other side and carefully drive it out and place it on the truck.

Unfortunately Simon and Salty missed all the action, waiting an excruciating half hour for the paperwork on the palette jack to be completed. However, we all met up at the drop off point in time for the unloading.

After the machine landed we shared a presumptuous high five. The journey was just beginning. We got the machine onto the palette and onto the jack and very, very, very, carefully led the 1.3 tonne hulking mass down the ramp. Everyone on the downhill side was (rightly so) worried about getting squashed. We edged the machine over the lip of the door frame and cracked a few slats with the crowbar. It was here we thought that everything was going to pieces, not just the palette. With the machine half in, half out, Bob steeled everyone’s resolve with some quick thinking. With the palette jack as high as we could get it and as far into the doorway as we could, we chocked it all up on the eight fence palings we got from Bunnings the week prior (I didn’t know what they were for at the time, but what Bob says, goes). We brought the palette jack in and grabbed the beast from the other side. We were in!

This was the fun part. After laying down our three sheets of tongue and groove to protect the tiles we dropped the the mass right in front of the destination. We then crowbarred the machine up to slide under the fence palings, then up onto steel rollers, creating what Bob described as a set of ‘train tracks’. Next stop, back on the palette jack minus the palette. From here, we reversed direction, removed the palette and replaced it with a new set of train tracks. Toot-toot. Final stop – drip tray.

After a very sweaty few hours we were done… moving. Bob then switched the motor over from a three phase to single phase, checked the shearing collar and levelled the machine, amongst a myriad of other checks and balances.

We said goodbye to Bob, popped on our new rollers and we were printing!

It was a very long day and everyone at The Hungry Workshop were both excited and elated, so we celebrated the only way we know how: with a glass of champagne and a cold beer with good friends.

Load More 20/21