Sunburn on our prints???
Elephant Walk Antiques and Interiors + Mama’s Sauce = super rad screen printed tapestries.
When you start talking about 5 ft screen prints, we have to start thinking creatively around here… i.e. Something that big we have to burn in the sun and then hose out in the parking lot. Check out some pics of the process…
There’s no job too big for the sauce!
The Poster Cause Project
A few months ago a guy named Anthony contacted us about full color poster rates for a website that uses limited poster releases to raise money for assorted charities. Using the arts for good. Well, the designs started coming in from Anthony and we printed them… And, it seems that it was a hit.
The Poster Cause Project is it’s name, and it’s the newest, greatest place to shop for your wall art. It’s super easy shop and just as easy to see just how well each poster does by it’s respective beneficiary.
As far as I know, we’re their official printer, and we couldn’t be more proud to take part in what they do.
Take some time to see just what it is that they do.
To screen print Orr not to screen print.
Clark Orr is a bad boy. That’s all I really have to say.
Check out this 24×36 behemoth that he sent our way to
print for Everygreen Terrace’s 10th anniversary show in
Jacksonville, FL and see if you agree…
It’s 1920 up in here.
Just wanted to share our latest sauce-designed/printed wedding invite.
1920’s Epherma-inspired.
Designer: Austin Petito of Mama’s Sauce
Printed using: Heidelberg Windmill
Paper: Holyoke Antique 140# Cotton
Envelope: French Speckletone Sand
The sweet sound of vinyl and how we help it come to life.
You know what I’m stoked on lately? No, not calypso music and sweater capes (though both have their place), but rather my vinyl collection. After spending years of scouring thrift stores, garage sales, record shops and distant relative’s basements – I have finally amassed a collection that I’m happy with. What happens next here makes me sad though. A leak. A tragic roof leak at the shop a few weeks back. Not only did it ruin some finished prints, but it also got into a room that held my entire collection… Boxed and waiting to move into my soon to be completed/newly renovated bedroom, said collection incurred a blow of epic proportions… Specially to the box holding L-R. Think about it. Led Zeppelin’s entire catalog. The Rollingstone’s (RIP Let it Bleed). Gonezo. So sad. Yet in it’s wake I have found comfort from the following:
1. The Otis Redding collection was at my desk. It is safe and sound.
2. We birth LPs to life daily here at the sauce. Countless records have seen the light of day with our help.
In the wake of a loss I see hope in new life as we print, die-cut, and ship brave new artist’s vinyl pressed music packaging out into a world of bursting pipes and rain storms – both crouching and waiting to wreak nature’s version of LP population control upon them one day. When and if it does – we will still be here waiting to help bring forth the scores of replacement jackets that will be needed.
Love for the large format
So our main man Chase over at Fiction hired us to print some 1 of 1 photos on our Glicee large format printer that documented his year in photographs. The 24×36 behemoths covered everything from the inauguration to B10 bombers and scuba diving. Each was finished off with a hand screen printed 1 of 1 tag and signed. You may have noticed Chase’s acute eye in the mini-doc he did on our Kluge earlier in the year. The guy has mega talent and a rippin’ Canon 5D MKII.
The deadly combo makes great prints and stunning video. Look out for flying dogs.
CHASE HEAVENER 2009 YEAR IN PICTURES from Northern Lights on Vimeo.
Sealed with a kiss… And some glue.
I have a confession.
It’s an embarrassing one. One that would be hard to admit, that is if I hadn’t had to confess it at least once a day for the past two years. I say again, two years… That’s how long I’ve been a printer without a business card. That is exactly how long it’s been since our staff of trained professionals, who specialize in creating these seven and half square inch handy (literally) little sheets of ink and reclaimed cotton and/or tree pulp, have been operating without cards of our own.
How does one in this profession get away card-less for so long? I can’t even imagine a dairy farmer without milk in his icebox, or a taxidermist without at least one moose head over his fireplace. But then again, there is that old adage, ‘The cobbler’s children have no shoes.’ I guess that applies to printers too?
Well not anymore. This cobbler’s kids got some shoes, baby. Some rad, letterpressed shoes. Clearly put, we finally carved out some time to design and print our own cards.
Being that it was a long time coming, we thought we’d go a little over the top. A two-color letterpress card duplexed (fancy talk for glued) to a chocolate brown french paper backing… Hit number one is a light hotdog colored kiss print, which is a slight graze of ink to the surface of the paper, leaving the surface’s original dimension in place. The second hit is a deep punch of light brown that ads the 3rd dimension, which the modern letterpress printing technique has become known for… The bite if you will.
Note the two-tone sides and brown back duplex.
We’re stoked on them…
Looking for a ‘one hit’ wonder? Check out the print we rocked right after the sauce card… A simple and elegant design done by and for our good friend Aaron Martin from Superwindy. Aaron has been wanting to do business cards since we met him ages ago… Being a designer – it took awhile to get it done. I guess we’re all cursed in this area? Working for others doesn’t allow us the time to do for ourselves? Well, It has finally happened for Aaron too – and word on the street is that he’s diggin on his new beasts.
This week in posters
Here are some of our favorite posters that we’ve printed in the super recent…
Each will link to the artist and/or musician. Enjoy.
Check that fine print(ing)….
A few months back our good friend Anna at Rifle Design approached us to screen print a piece that she was asked to do for Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine – and for a few months we’ve thought her to be a complete liar. Turns out though, she’s not. See the photographic proof. We took the liberty of circling the fine print containing the sauce shout out. Martha’s definitely big enough for us to be stoked about our name in small print.
