On a good day the Good Lord has given us to be able to draw, paint, cut blocks, set type, or do pretty much whatever we put our hands to. On a not-so-good day (or a bad one), we find something else to do.
In nine-hundred-eighteen-thousandths of one inch we trust
0.918—that’s “type high,” the height of the lead letters that we use to set type. This one number is the foundation of everything we love and do.
Most of our doings are done for ourselves. We find ideas in our heads and then find a way to put them onto paper we can hold with our hands. That being said, we are known to take on the odd job printing to keep the heat on.
The Jobs
Typesetting
Upside-down and backwards
Gold Foiling
Ouuuu, shiny
Numbering
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Perforating
P – e – r – f – e – c – t
Binding
Saddle up
Die-cutting
Make-ready and run
Publishing
Printer’s proof
In the wild
Our work can be found at UNB Special Collections, Canadian Library and Archives, and local retailers around New Brunswick.
Created Here Magazine, November 2019
The NB Box, August 2019
Bellwether Bouique, February 2018
Ladies of Letterpress, April 2015
AIGA Eye on Design, March 2015
Connexion Artist-Run Centre, March 2013
Bodleian Library, November 2016
