It’s been busy around the studio this week. We started printing our beautiful line of Spring releases, which we think you’re really going to love (more on that soon, we promise). But we also have our hands full with reprints, including the Maidenhair Fern, Raspberry, and Cherry cards. It may be busy, but we’re really …
Painted Tongue Press will be exhibiting at Roadworks, a yearly printing festival held at the Center for the Book in San Francisco! Join us on September 22nd for an array of vendors, printing and bookbinding demos, and of course, the main event, huge linocuts made by local artists printed on the ground by a 7-ton …
This past Sunday, The Contemporary Jewish Museum hosted a Zine Fest to compliment their current exhibition, Show Me as I Want to Be Seen, a show which examines the empowered representation of fluid and complex identity. Beginning with the work of French Jewish artist Claude Cahun and her lover and collaborator Marcel Moore, the exhibition …
We are incredibly busy at the studio! In addition to printing our upcoming Summer card releases, we are always reprinting designs that have low stock. This process of adding new cards to the line and maintaining the rest means we have to print cards based on the similarity of their colors. Cleaning our Heidelberg windmill …
We are currently working on an exciting new project proposal to create public art using the makeready printed at our studio! The makeready is a byproduct of the letterpress printing process. When we print our greeting cards, there is an involved press set-up process that requires printing on a piece of paper, making adjustments, …
