Okay, once again this post is going to be pretty freakin' vague. Sundy and I are still waiting to hear back from our wedding client, so we haven't had a chance to print that job. I can't post the Willie one because it doesn't take place until the 20th of Oct.
I've gotten approval on my Christmas poster (but haven't printed it yet, and won't be able to post photos for a long time) and I got a job doing a 2-year-old's birthday poster. The family it pretty cool. They do a poster for each of their kid's birthdays until the age of 5. This one is a snowball & hot cocoa party (how adorable). It's been approved, but once again I can't really post it until December.
I also got a new job for a band in California. I'm still working on the layout for that one. For some reason it's the most difficult poster I've had to design. I'm confident it will end up being sweet, but I have definitely been struggling more with that one.
This week we also had a 5th intern. Mark hails from outside of London and is doing a whirlwind letterpress tour in the U.S. He was up at Hamilton in Two Rivers, WI for 2 weeks, came to Hatch for a week and is now on his way to Knoxville to hang with Yee-Haw for a week. He was a fun guy to have around and a total letterpress nerd, so it was a lot of fun to talk nerdy letterpress things with him. I doubt he will read this, but Have fun at Yee-Haw!
We also got the okay to come in and work on Saturdays. Super Super Awesome. I went in yesterday and printed my first non-job poster. I'd post a photo of it, but it's kind of a surprise for someone. It's two colors though and I think it turned out pretty well. It's definitely different from the other stuff I've been printing, but I'm totally okay with that.
I also am going to start carving a linoleum block. I really wanted to do a poster using broken type and started talking to Bethany. I knew the type was going to be fragile and a pain to print and Bethany said it made more sense to cut a lino for it instead. I haven't actually carved anything since high-school so I'm really excited to start this one. It's going to be a little crazy, and it will probably drive me nuts that I can't change the position of the type, but I think it will be a really good learning experience. (I posted a photo of the broken type I proofed).
Brad is out for all of next week (and last Friday) he's going to be in Utah and we are going to miss him while he's gone.
Oh right, it was really foggy one morning so I took some photos. Also I rode my bike 6 days in a row. My legs are going to be killer.
