cloverfield, pt 2

some examples of endsheets I've printed for the Cloverfield Press books. For each book I print both the covers and the endsheets--I give the offset press the printed endsheets before the books are bound, so they are part of the binding and trimmed with the rest of the book. I've designed all of the endsheet patterns--generally a riff on the cover art...

1. inside the front cover of Ventura County:

2. the first endsheet I designed, for The Museum of Contemporary Art by Carol Treadwell. The cover has a lone stroller, which I morphed into a wallpaper:

3. the inside pattern for Hot Springs by Mary Rechner. The cover features a minivan.

4. the inside cover of Cubist Infant by Justus Ballard (based on cover art by Ann Faison):

cloverfield selections

some selections from the Cloverfield Press oeuvre:

1. the press in the midst of printing the covers for Gentleman Reptile by Henry Baum.

and a close up of the boxcar base used for his cover:

2. the original cover for Laurence Dumortier's Ventura County (linoleum image; photopolymer type):

3. Haruki Murakami's Tony Takitani (cover art by Michiko Yao):

fiesta card

another linoleum/metal type combo:

save the date

I'm thinking about making blank save the date cards with this old block I cut for Noah and Maggie's wedding:

greeting cards; tags

thank you cards, celebrating that lovely sombra font.



happy birthday and thank you cards, two sizes, two color schemes, based on "HELLO MY NAME IS" stickers, contrasted with the unevenness of the metal type:



cards and tags based on the linoleum tiles i unearthed on the floor of the kitchen in the back house:

2008/2009 calendar

I got this calendar out a wee bit late, so the dates stretch into 2009. (I'm also reprinting this for 2009). This calendar is a collabo with Alex--he did all the excellent research + all the excellent blurb writing. It is chock full of odd LA history gems + introduced me to both Tiny Broadwick and Georgeous George. all of the months follow:
(as with the previous year's calendar, the images are linoleum blocks I cut + the text is all hand-set)

2007 calendar

Finally posting photos of the 2007 calendar, which I'm about to reprint for 2009. The theme is animals we've seen in our yard (or, sometimes, in our house), which is to say: the animals of Silver Lake...

invites for lotta

Invites I printed for Lotta Jansdotter, for our friend Chris's wedding:

lou

menu blanks for Lou:

more twentieth century bold

a couple hand-set invites using the magic Twentieth Century Bold:

twentieth century, bold

Mike zeroed in on the drawer of Twentieth Century Bold, 10 pt, for his business cards, and I have to agree: it makes a nice business card...