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Howdy friends. The other day I was designing away and decided to take a break and do a little typography fun (which usually means make something that I want to hang up…hoping that if I want to, others will want to too…) so I came up with some House Rules. A few friends noted that No Whining needed to be a little bigger (duly noted) but otherwise many friends were kind and encouraging in their positive feedback, so I figured I'd just print it. I have a few color combos: Red & Chocolate on Brown Paper, Red & Chocolate on Crane...

Okay, so now that things have finally settled down I thought I'd show you some photos of the first press move (well actually second press move) I did not document the awesomeness of the vandercook move six years ago…oops!) Back at the end of November Andy and I headed up to Minneapolis to purchase and move a Heidelberg Windmill press. This press will be faster and can handle larger jobs than the Vandercook, basically got the press so I can do a different variety of jobs than on the vandy. We went up the night before to minneapolis since they...

Can you tell I've been listening to The Sundays?