Alas! I graduated.

In so doing, I moved a thousand miles away from my vandercook (okay, it was never exactly mine...) and no longer have access to a press.

Instead, I've started sewing, gluing, and otherwise affixing somethings to otherthings, hopefully in an aesthetically pleasing way.

Cases in (needle?)point:



These were dolls for dear little people I've gotten to know in my new town. I've also made some clothing for myself, but I have not taken pictures of said clothing. Maybe I will. (I probably won't.)

More of my creative efforts, however, have been in amateur millinery. In this arena, I have many fruits of my labor. Stay tuned for a post about them. Or, if you can't wait for that, take a walk around downtown Bloomington some Saturday night, and you might just see a gaggle of good friends with heads a-flowered, a-feathered, and a-fascinating.

Invitations!

In the past, I have worked for the Bow & Arrow Press on wedding invitation commissions. Recently, I had the opportunity to do this independently for my brother's wedding! (Hooray!)

After pitching several different designs, my brother and his fiancée chose a design based on a drawing by my sister (it was a real family project). Then I ordered polymer plates from Boxcar Press and got printing!




The invitations were printed on Crane Lettra 220-lb paper with a Vandercook No. 4. The typeface used was Deussenberg SSK.

Happy Birthday Mister!

Happy birthday!
(Sorry it's not better.)
xoxoxo

Linoleum Block Print, drawn from this beautiful 1921 cover.

First Impressions

Do you see this poster, with its jumble of fonts, some unknown to me, others all too recognizable? (Yes, that is Helvetica… ) This was my first big project on the Bow & Arrow Press. In this case, first impressions means both an imperfect work, and the excitement that accompanies such a novelty––I printed that!

I’m Sally Morrell, a student printer at the Bow & Arrow Press in Adams House, part of Harvard College. I’ll be posting my work here. Hopefully some stuff will eventually go on sale, and hopefully people will be willing to buy it. Hopefully.

Regardless of future endeavors, my first impressions of printing have left me infatuated with the printing press, and I have a feeling that this impression will last.