¶ When I first discovered Jennifer Daniel's work I was struck by the concise wit and fantastic diversity of her portfolio which ranges from icons to illustration and information graphics. Then when our letterpress printing shop was recently called upon by Jennifer to print her new business cards my delight could hardly be contained to find out that Ms Daniel had diversified her business even further to now offering professional unicorn grooming services.
¶ Tonight, July 30th, 2010 Keith (the Cranky Pressman) will be giving a presentation at PechaKucha Cleveland Volume 8. The title is Let Letterpress Be Letterpress - Tips on designing for the medium. In 20 slides and 20 seconds each he will try to give some useful information for designers creating work for this unique old medium. Alternatively he may just freeze up and babble some incoherent nonsense for 6.5 minutes. We will see, and hope anyone in the Cleveland area can make it out to what should be an interesting evening.
A sneak peak at some of the work included in the presentation after the jump.
¶ We were proud to help designer Nathan Freeman with his identity project for International Justice Mission (IJM) a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. The piece illustrates how letterpress print is not just for lighthearted work but is also very effective for bringing a feel of sophistication, importance and professionalism to institutional or business communications.
