Tipsy Studio Blog

Kyle Durrie is a letterpress printer from Portland, Oregon, the proprietor of Power and Light Press , and a girl who had an awesome idea. To travel across North America, “teaching workshops, doing demos, and generally spreading the good word about printing the old fashioned way”. She launched a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter.com to bring this idea into fruition. Now she is traveling to a city to near you, with fully functional letterpress print shop via converted 1982 Chevy step van. Visit her site type-truck.com to learn more about her Movable Type project and where you can be a part of it!

Paula Scher is one of my design heroes. When I came across this video it brought me out of a design funk. I had become weighted down with personal worries and trying to learn more programming. I had moved away from a very important part of being a designer. To make the time and space to have abstract thoughts, learn,  play, and make something that I could hold in my hand. In an AIGA interview Paula Scher is speaking about the using the computer and says, ” it doesn’t look like, it doesn’t smell like art.” I know exactly what she means, and I realized how much I had missed that.  Just the smell of mineral spirits and oil paint brings a smile to face and a flood of great memories. I knew I had to balance my Graphic Design life. So got serious about fine art again. I believe it is absolutely essential for me, not only spiritually, but to grow creatively in my design work as well. Check out Fat Eye design here or on esty in May to see some of my progress.