Bal­ti­more screen­print­ers and let­ter­press junkies rejoice!
This Sun­day, Bal­ti­more Print Stu­dios will cel­e­brate their grand open­ing!

Open for the first time to the pub­lic, Sunday’s event will fea­ture let­ter­press and screen­print­ing demon­stra­tions and light refresh­ments; all for FREE. Come one, come all–Sunday Octo­ber 17^th, from 3–7 PM at 18 W. North Ave.(between Mary­land Ave. and Charles St.) in the Sta­tion North Arts District.

The end of print pub­lish­ing? Or?? Watch and see:

It may be almost a month before the Acad­emy Awards, but Ellen Lup­ton has already posted her picks for the Oscars of Type.

Per­son­ally I love her Best Serif pick:

Cal­luna, by Jos Buivenga

Which faces made your list, dear readers?

Today I have the plea­sure of shar­ing the work of Lana Lam­bert, also known as Pis­toles Press. For­mally trained at the Cor­co­ran Col­lege of Art and Design in Wash­ing­ton D.C., Lana pro­duces del­i­cate Japan­ese moku hanga (wood­block) prints. I love the level of detail she achieves in her work and the majes­tic crea­tures she cre­ates. Her work is avail­able online at her Etsy bou­tique.

Gor­geous, don’t you think? I’d love to see her explo­rations of other creatures…

Images: Pis­toles Press