Making Of: 2019 MAMA Awards Letterpress Poster
The 2019 Madison Area Music Association Awards Ceremony poster features beautiful handset letterpress type with a very colorful split fountain for the text and second color for the border.
The 2019 Madison Area Music Association Awards Ceremony poster features beautiful handset letterpress type with a very colorful split fountain for the text and second color for the border.
Complete with handcut linoleum blocks and type also set by hand, we pulled out all of the stops with this poster! The annual event of Flannel Fest commemorative poster is here! Check us out this behind the scenes footage!
We had the pleasure of working with Holding History on a unique project. For the first time ever, we printed on paper that was handmade. A 1899 Chandler and Price press with handset type was used for the production. The next phase is to fill in the blanks of the letter by typewriter. Check us […]
The Frequency was an independently owned and operated music venue in Madison, Wisconsin. They had wonderful success for 10 years and these are the posters we printed for the event before they closed down later that month. We would like to personally congratulate Darwin Sampson who coincidentally was our first employee on your success. We […]
Here is a really fun video we did for Ida Jo & The Movement. We had a magnesium “mag” plate made for the entirety of her layout, so that we could print her text and the feather on the cover at the same time. Once printing was complete, we let them sit in the drying […]
The People Brothers Band was aiming for a really custom package set. We did a 6-panel tube digipack with an 18 panel poster on the inside. The digi itself has a specific UV coating for an extra glossy appearance. The letterpress poster was printed on both a Vandercook 219 for all of the handset type […]
We just finished up this sweet handset cd sleeve and poster combo for Chicago’s Erin Edmister and 3 Tons. I love the picture of the lockup on the disc face. Check us out this behind the scenes footage!
This was a neat project we did for Our Friends The Savages! We did a full set for them with their music. The 4-panel wallet CD package is printed on Kraft stock alongside a 12″ vinyl package. The vinyl package features a really custom owl printed on our 1940 Vandercook press. Afterwords it was custom […]
Printing the Rogers Eckersley Design (RED) business cards was a really fun and engaging project for us. We did it all, between the layout of handset metal type, die-cutting the paper stock with a custom design, and printing. We printed on these with a Chandler & Price press from 1899! RED is a graphic design […]
Happy Holidays from all of us at Sooper Dooper. Thanks to everyone for making 2016 another great year. Here’s the gang at our holiday dinner. Left to Right: Brendan, Sara, Chris, Jordan, Shawn and Ben. See you at our new building in 2017!