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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.

Making Of: The 2018 MAMA Awards Poster

It’s that time of year where the Madison Area Music Association puts on their award ceremony celebrating local musicians! This poster features names of all the entertainers you can expect to see during the ceremony. Check us out this behind the scenes footage!

Making Of: The Frequency 10 Year Anniversary Posters

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 […]

Making Of: Ida Jo & The Movement 4 Panel Wallet

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 […]

Making Of: Body Futures 6-Panel Wallet

We go way back with the peeps from Body Futures and we’re thrilled to work with them on their new cd project “Maybe it’s Just the Weather” This video walks through the finishing process of making their disc.

Making Of: The People Brothers Band Package Set

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 […]

Making Of: Erin Edmister and 3 Tons

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!

Our Friends The Savages!

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 […]

Flannel Fest 2016

Last weekend Flannel Fest returned to the High Noon Saloon for it’s 2016 shin-dig with a great line up of bands. For this years poster we used a sweet variety of wood and metal typefaces and some freshly cast border pieces courtesy of Skyline Type Foundry. Five tuscan faces! Yowza! Here’s a short video done […]

3226 Commercial Ave.

3226 Commercial Ave. I purchased this little blue house on Madison’s east side last month to tear it down and build a new facility for Sooper Dooper. We recently purchased 3 new presses (one digital and two letterpresses) and are just bursting out of our already cramped space. This little blue house has some history […]