

Available on Thursday, August 20th 10 AM PDT at. Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Aardvark publishing chop in lower left corner. Proceeds go to ACLU Immigrant Rights’ Initiative. Letterpress on cream cotton paper with hand-deckled edges. Buy a print to support, or send them some custom printing business! institution who are purveyors of a very special art form and craft. Like all businesses, Aardvark has been hit hard by Covid, so the “Welcome Visitors” letterpress is more than just a print marking an an important anniversary, but also a fundraiser to preserve an L.A. Cary loved the idea of “Welcome Visitors” as an image which related to the family history and aspirations for the American dream. This company currently has approximately 1 to 5 employees and annual sales of Under 500,000. AARDVARK CYCLING ASSOCIATION is in the Sporting and Recreational Goods and Supplies industry in Richmond, UT. Aardvark has been the family business with three Ocon generations working there. Richmond, UT 84333-2000 view map (435) 258-0800. It turns out that Cary’s dad emigrated from Mexico and met his American mom, starting the letterpress business shortly after. Still, until Cary asked me if I’d be willing to do a limited print to commemorate Aardvark’s 50th anniversary, I didn’t know much about the print shop’s history. ink&paper is a portrait of Aardvark Letterpress and McManus & Morgan Paper, neighboring businesses working together to survive in a digital era.The film was directed by Ben Proudfoot, a film. I’ve known Cary Ocon and crew from Aardvark for a while. The additional dimension and texture from letterpress give the technique a sublime elegance. The charm of letterpress is that the raised relief plate is inked and then stamped into the paper leaving both the ink on the paper and a physical impression in the paper. Letterpress is a very special traditional and beautiful printing process that is slowly fading, as other forms of printing and digital tech replace it.

Aardvark has even done special projects with me, live printing at my Damaged art show and at an arts charity event in Miami. for many years, and they have always done great work. I’ve been working with Aardvark Letterpress based in the MacArthur Park area of L.A.

It is the second print in the Aardvark Letterpress 50th Anniversary Prints Series. #49 German (Please make a note that you want this one.Bert Green Fine Art and Aardvark Letterpress are pleased to announce the release of a limited edition print by Shepard Fairey, “Welcome Visitors.” This is a four-color letterpress print, printed by the master printers at Aardvark Letterpress in Los Angeles. #47 Spanish (Please make a note that you want this one.) (Chromolithography was used in the latter half of the 19th century, and was the first widely used color printing method.) These fabric dye bottle labels were used by textile merchants in England from the 1890's to the very early 20th Century. These circa 1890s fabric dye labels are chromolithographs, printed from multiple lithography stones - one stone for each color you see. The end papers are black, Strathmore Artagain paper with original scribbles, and the books are hand bound by the artist with waxed linen thread, and come in a brown craft box banded with an antique paper label with pretty birds. The covers are letterpress on Crane's Lettra by Aardvark Letterpress, Los Angeles, Ca.
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The drawings were kept as pure as they were when scribbled down in the middle of the night, re-drawn in gouache and reproduced as digital prints.Įvery page is individually typed onto the pages from an old Underwood portable typewriter, so each book varies in text, mistakes, cross outs, and languages. They are ideas in a dream: funny inspirations taken from a half-sleeping brain gone mad. This senseless, handmade book include crude childlike drawings and words that come directly out of the artist's bedside sketchbook. Horsebucket by Carol Es, 2008 Original Handmade Artist's book in craft box.
