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Posted by Jason Urban on August 28th, 2010 | 
Some sad news… Stephen Kinsella, the St. Louis-based paper company, will be closing their operation down this September. Their closure is a real loss to the print community and they will be sorely missed by many of us. They are in the process of liquidating their inventory so you may want to get in touch and see if they have anything you need. Here’s a statement they sent…
Stephen Kinsella Paper Company has been providing fine art papers to artists for over 30 years. Regrettably with the economy and competition as they are, we will be closing. Our final day in business is not set, but hope to close mid to late September. We have priced our current inventory of papers for liquidation. For those in or near St. Louis, there will be a warehouse sale on Friday September 3rd from 9am to 4pm.
We would like to let everyone know how much we have appreciated you support. Artists are wonderful customers and people to deal with. All of us at Kinsella have enjoyed sharing our enthusiasm for paper and will miss each and every one of you.
With warmest regards,
SKinc Emeritus
1-800-445-8865
Having bought paper from Kinsella many times in the last ten plus years, I’ve always found them to be a great company to deal with. More than once, they helped me meet a looming deadline by shipping paper out the same day that I placed the order. Hopefully the whole crew at Kinsella will be going on to other rewarding ventures- thanks for thirty years, Stephen Kinsella.
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Posted by RL Tillman on August 22nd, 2010 | When, do you think, was the last time the word “printmaking” was printed in an issue of GQ? My guess is that it was a long time ago, perhaps when the magazine went by its original moniker, “Gentleman’s Quarterly.” In that era, gentlemen and printmaking went hand and hand (unlike today, when our beloved art form is besmirched by ruffians, scamps, and scoundrels).
It took the Levi’s Workshops to bring this matter to the attention of well-dressed men everywhere:
 Scan courtesy of Brian Garner.
Posted by Jason Urban on August 10th, 2010 |  Audubon’s legendary first engraving discovered! From the PR Newswire…
Now, after a decade-long search by an Audubon scholar from Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences and a numismatic historian from St. Louis, Audubon’s first published illustration of a bird has been discovered. In a forthcoming article in the Journal of the Early Republic, Robert M. Peck, curator of art at the Academy of Natural Sciences, and Eric Newman, an authority on American money, reveal their discovery and explain how Audubon’s entry into the world of commerce took place. The find is important not only for solving the puzzle of the missing engraving, but also because it illustrates Audubon’s development as an artist and provides a rare, contemporary view of the now extinct Heath Hen, a subspecies of running grouse.
It’s not exactly Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom but still pretty exciting stuff for old school print enthusiasts. Of course, it is possible that Peck and Newman had to rescue the engraving from a Thuggee religious cult practicing child slavery, black magic and ritual human sacrifice. Be sure to read their Journal of the Early Republic account this Fall to get the full story.
(Thanks, Mary!)
Posted by RL Tillman on July 23rd, 2010 | The summer’s hottest blockbuster is Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, of TV’s “Growing Pains.”
When I saw Inception, I was distracted by several scenes that took place in an abandoned print shop. These screengrabs (from the movie’s trailer) don’t show much of it, but there’s a lot more in the film:
Trust me, there’s some printing stuff in there.
The characters don’t use the print shop, they just sit there and explain the movie’s internal logic to each other. You can ignore the expository dialogue, and focus on the printing equipment, because this movie is actually about car chases, gun fights, and flying buildings.
Apparently the equipment was all on loan from the International Printing Museum in Carson, California. You can download this PDF to read Mark Barbour’s article about the Museum’s exploits in the film industry.
Posted by Jason Urban on July 15th, 2010 | As tradition has it, the Printers’ Ball always commissions a Chicago poster artist to produce a poster for their annual event. From a large and qualified pool (let’s face it, Chicago has no shortage of great poster artists to choose from), Sonnenzimmer got the call this year. Here’s their design- half letterpress, half silkscreen, all awesome. Click on the image below to view a high-res version…
Not only is this poster great to look at but it’s also in keeping with this year’s theme- PRINT <3 DIGITAL. Nick and Nadine at Sonnezimmer used the html from the Printers’ Ball webpage as a guide for text placement. The code is actually embossed around the printed text! Click on the image below to view an animated GIF of the source code/text in a new window…
Posted by amze on July 12th, 2010 | 
He will be missed.
To read a full obituary of this amazing artist follow this link to an article by Joanna Connors of the Plain Dealer.
Posted by RL Tillman on July 4th, 2010 |  Enjoy it.
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Posted by Jason Urban on June 19th, 2010 | Buying a t-shirt is pretty small gesture but every little bit helps, right? Threadless released this shirt by Frederik Wepener and Ross Zietz last week with all proceeds going to the Gulf Restoration Network. It’s a good cause (unfortunately, there have been a lot of them this year) and the t-shirt is a steal at ten bucks. Of course, you could always skip the tee and donate the whole amount to GRN or another aid group of your choice. Either way, it’s something… 
Posted by amze on June 13th, 2010 | 
On the heels of the US tie against Englad, a little does of World Cup Graphics seemed in order. What you see above is the official 2010 poster and below an unofficial poster by the Treble Seven design team that allows the confused Yanks to keep track of the matches on the back (thanks!). Scroll on to find some amazing time capsules of commercial design going back decades. If this doesn’t work you up into a soccer hooligan frenzy nothing will.
via coolhunting via trebleseven
via christung
via grainedit
via BBC Sport’s Flickr
Even more posters and graphics after the jump.
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