Come see us at Hamilton
We’re pleased to be heading up to the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum on Saturday, April 28th, for a reception of our printed pieces that are currently on display. Hamilton is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, Hamilton’s collection is one of the premier wood type collections in the world. In addition to wood type, the Museum is home to an amazing array of advertising cuts from the 1930s through the 1970s, and all of the equipment necessary to make wood type and print with it, as well as equipment used in the production of hot metal type, tools of the craft and rare type specimen catalogs.
Located between the East and West Twin Rivers on Lake Michigan, the Hamilton Manufacturing Company was the largest wood type producer in the country, when virtually everything was letterpress printed. The company was founded in 1880, and in addition to wood type, the company has manufactured medical office furniture, light tables, the first gas powered clothes dryer (really!) and more.
We’ll be bringing prints to share… hope to see you there!
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Imprinting posters at ATA
One of clients, Realtree, invited us to attend the annual Archery Trade Show in Columbus, Ohio over the second week of January. We borrowed a great little sign press from our friends at Letterform and imprinted about 150 different posters for their clients, dealers and shops. Check out the posters as well as our space at the show here.
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2011... a great year!
2011 was one of the best for Starshaped Press. We repeatedly knocked ourselves on the side of the head and resisted the urge to quote Lloyd Dobler… ‘I can’t believe people pay me for this!’
We’ve compiled just a handful of our favorite jobs and you can check them out here. Looking forward to more inspiring clients in 2012!
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Renegade Holiday
Join us this Saturday and Sunday, December 3rd and 4th, for the annual Renegade Holiday Chicago Fair! We’re thrilled to be a part of this super fun event again this year, and we’ve got tons of great stuff for the holidays. Wrapping paper, tags, cards… not to mention posters and prints that are perfect for gifts.
You can see the entire line up of skilled craftspeople here.
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The 12th Annual Starshaped Press open house!
Tis the season to celebrate our 12th year with a stellar holiday open house! You’ve helped us make 2012 a fantastic year and we want to thank you and share some of our favorite projects. Join us this Saturday, November 12th, between 7-10pm for good cheer and conversation, not to mention seeing the studio at its best. We’ll be lifting a glass to our 8×12 C+P platen press, which is celebrating its 100th birthday this year (cupcakes, anyone?), and you can print your own birthday card to keep or share.
We’ve got tons of new prints that are perfect for gifts, as well as a large assortment of holiday cards, many of which are on sale.
How about wrapping some of those small gifts on your list? We’ve got some killer new wood type printed wrapping paper in two color options. Round out your packages with some of our varied tags and garlands, or use them as excellent and useful hostess gifts.
It’s not too late for custom work, but orders need to be placed by Thanksgiving. We can customize cards in our collection or create something entirely new.
And pick up some thank you note sets to have on hand after the holiday rush!
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