Printing Art Fair

Everyone is invited to the Fifth Annual Printing Arts Fair, on Sunday, June 15th, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.at The Museum of Printing, 800 Massachusetts Avenue in North Andover, Massachusetts. Just across from the town common and the event is free. Co-sponsored by the Letterpress Guild of New England and the Museum, it’s the perfect time to explore the Museum and seeing letterpress printing, paper marbling, paper making, bookbinding demonstrations and great vendors!

I will do the paper marbling demonstration from 12:00 to 1:00 if anyone is interested, but other great demonstrations, in and out of The Printing Museum, will happen during the day. The beautiful letterpress poster is by Leslie Evans of Sea Dog press and it will be for sale during the fair. As usual, I hope to see all of you there!

NYC and the Stationery Show

My trip to New York City was somehow more then amazing. Before the Stationery Show had even started, I had a full day walking around the city, stopping at the MoMA for a few hours. There, with my most surprise, I have met Matthew Carter in the museum bookstore, one of the most well known contemporary type designer. Something memorable, that made me very happy for the rest of the day.


Then, the Stationery Show was one of the most wonderful event in the design world, I have ever experienced. The air was full of excitement, It was amazing to be surrounded by so many talented designers and to be able to meet them in person.
The show was overwhelming, tiring, but most of all fulfilling. In addition, the tactile experience of touching and look closely some beautiful samples of letterpress and silkscreen printed paper, was amazing. I have listed below some images of my favorite designs, I hope you will enjoy. But most of the show was far beyond the samples I'm be able to display here...

Hammerpress, Egg Press, Ink and Wit, Alee and Press, Blue Ribbon, Linda and Harriet.


Mixed Co.


Tiselle, Dee and Lala, 9SpotMonk, Carrot and Stick, Gilah, Pikku.


Elum, Oblation, Snow and Graham, Paper + Cup, Small Square Design, Sub-Studio.


Night Owl Paper Goods, Modern Printed Matter, Orange Beautiful, Albertine Press, JHill, Julia Rothman for Hello Lucky.

I also would like to mention these other beautiful lines of cards and invitations by Delphine Studio, Peculiar Pair Press, Letterary Press, Smudge Ink, Wiley and Valentine, Fiddle Sticks, Dauphine Press, Loop, L2 Design Collective, Girl Metro Inc., Two Piglets, Spruce Avenue, Pica Press, Twig and Fig, Little Oranges of California, Louella Press, Two Trick Pony, DeLuce Design, Jack and Lulu, Cat Seto, Shimmer Studio, Rosebud Design Studio, Set Editions and I'm sure there were even more to see.....

National Stationery Show

After months of long days and nights preparing for the National Stationery Show, I'm finally ready to pack and leave tomorrow for NYC. I'm launching the Italian Cotton Ribbons to the show, in larger rolls and spools, no paper or design at all. But even though I thought it was going to be something easier, I couldn't be more wrong. It took long ours of work in designing invitations, color charts, catalogues, line sheets, ordering form and samples packs, something I completely underestimated the time they could take.
I will share the booth with my friend Shelley of Albertine Press, so we hope it will be a nice combination of colored ribbons and letterpress greeting cards! She is launching some beautiful, new lines of cards in her self built booth, and I was amazed to see how easy and natural it was for her to deal with building something so big! I barely helped, she did all the work with paint, drill and hammer! Something, I'm incredibly grateful for!
Looking forward to this amazing experience, if you are there, come to visit us at booth 1934!

New at Bari Zaki

New services at beautiful barizaki.com:
For those of you seeking a sumptuous something, we are at the ready, from snapping photos of objects in the studio not shown on the website, to gift-wrapping & calligraphing. For special orders, we offer samplers of silk and paper swatches for you to view prior to ordering your custom albums, boxes and books.
Photos by Michelle Litvin.

Snippets and Ink

Thank you to Kathryn of Snippets and Ink for including the cotton ribbons on her wedding inspiration board. The color combination looks lovely!

A book from Japan

Lately, work, only means getting ready for the Stationery Show in NYC. Except some teaching and a few trips to the park with my children, one enjoyable distraction came in the mail, today. I have ordered a beautiful Japanese book from Pomadour24 and it is more inspiring then aspected. I love Japanese aesthetic, the simplicity and photography in the book are amazing. There are plenty of more books to order through the same site, on different subjects. The book here listed, is about eraser stamping on any kind of surface. Which it also reminded me of the charming stamping work on cotton ribbons, done by Caroline of Paloma's Nest.





The following image from Paloma's Nest.