& Coasters: Now at Pike Street Press!

Yesterday I dropped off a few bundles of my ampersand coasters at the recently opened Pike Street Press (underneath Pike Place Market in Downtown Seattle). They have an awesome gallery space where they're selling local letterpress printers' work, as well as a huge Heidelberg press in the back, where they do custom jobs. Such a great space for letterpress!

The coasters are packaged in bundles of 4, for $10 each. I dropped off five sets of the regular coasters, and one set of just the 'ampersand,' as well as one set with just the type. Hope they do well!

{Awesome photos by Ariel Nebeker, who helped me photograph my portfolio this weekend! More to come once I update my website with them.}

& Coaster: For the Love of Letterpress

Today I finished printing coasters for a 'Love & Letterpress' coaster exchange, headed by Catherine from Visual Chemist. I'm super excited to be a part of this exchange, and can't wait to see the coasters everyone else printed! It's an alphabet letterpress theme, so everyone was assigned one letter from the alphabet. Since 'S' was already taken, I chose to do the ampersand.

10 Recipes: Book Release!

Well, it's finally done! After 6 months, 5,000 hours (approximately), and lot's of photo cropping, 10 Recipes to Get You Laid is DONE! I had so much fun working on this book, and it's so satisfying to see a project I designed from beginning to end actually published. {UPDATE: Use the discount code 'SLAURSEN' at checkout to get 10% off!}

Happy Holidays 2010

Happy Holidays, inspired by 30 Rock.

Letterpress: Inspiration Broadside

Last week marked the close of my letterpress class with Jenny Wilkson at the School of Visual Concepts. I'm hoping I'll be able to find the funds to take a class again soon, but for now I can only dream about it.

Kim Boekbinder: Feather Clip!

I made this a while ago, but wanted to wait until I had a photo of Kim wearing it in action. My wonderfully talented friend Kim Boekbinder commissioned this feather clip from me a few months ago, and I graciously accepted! She's been traveling the world for her music, and wanted something glittery and fun to wear while she performed.

Blast from the Past

"Goctapus" type design concept (I'm so clever...)

I've been putting my portfolio together these past few weeks, in anticipation of my internship at Cognition Studio coming to a close on December 17th. One of the projects I'm including is my Encyclopedia Umbrellica, and Kristine suggested I go through the process of making the book to show people how I work. Since I did the project in my Experimental Typography class with Martin Venezky, there were lots of drawings to scan. I hadn't looked at these for years, but they're pretty interesting.