Baby's First Letterpress Project

I have recently been learning how to letterpress for my volunteer job at the Independent Publishing Resource Center.  Here's some postcards I made to send out with new membership packets.  Join and you may get one too!

Places and Spaces

Inspiration as of Late: The Ocean

Peep No. 20 is Finally Finished!

I got called off my shift tonight and instead of pouting about it I figured I'd do something productive. So, I finished issue 20 of my vaguely ongoing serial zine, Peep. Peep has been in existence since January of 2008 and I am very proud to keep it going.

Issue 20 features a recipe for biscuits, helpful life tips, a mad lib written by yours truly and much more. For this edition I tried a new technique and hand-bound each zine using a simple "three-hole punch" bookbinding stitch. This will make the spines stronger and more capable of withstanding many readings and perusals. Additionally, each zine is hand-numbered and stamped with today's date. It was produced in a limited edition of 65 copies.

Interested? Order it on my Etsy page!

While You Were Out postcards

Another random fun venture: hand-drawn postcards mimicking those "While You Were Out" office memos. Available on my etsy page!

Algeria: Notes on an Unfamiliar Place

I just finished a zine featuring my father's travelogues about Algeria. He and my mother moved there about a year ago to join the foreign service and work at the US embassy in Algiers. The text in the zine is written by him and edited by yours truly. I also did the illustrations and compiled the whole thing. It was a big hit at last weekend's Portland Zine Symposium. This zine (and others) are now available on my Etsy page.

New Zine: Paint Our Town

For the past few months I have been working on a zine about the process of creating a public art mural in Portland. It is very complicated and this zine was commissioned to explain the process in an easily understandable (and attractive) fashion. I finally finished it last week! Here are some pictures. We are distributing these for free, so let me know if you would like one.