Imbolc

Frans Boukas just finished inking this sweet poster for us. Now Rebecca Sugar ( who has some amazing and hilarious animations on her livejournal) is taking over the color. Can't wait to print it!

Handmade Holiday

Hey everyone! This is really short notice, but tomorrow is the Handmade Holiday Craft Show at the Visual Arts Center. Its gonna be full of handmade items from local Richmond artists and crafters. Be there from 10am to 5pm. (That's Saturday the 13th of December). Oh yeah, and we'll be there, too!

Protect unique, original, and handmade

Matt Deans has been working on designing some screen printed toys for Team Eight and through his research he stumbled across the following:

http://www.handmadetoyalliance.org/

Remember the lead paint and choking hazard toy fiasco of last year? You know, the ones where all these large american toy companies imported toys that weren't exactly healthy for kids. Well, our legislators have come up with the CPSIA, which does a good job of setting high standards for toy manufacturing, but effectively makes it insanely expensive or illegal to sell original, small run, or unique handmade toys. Read about it at the link above. If you at all feel that its important to keep unique, original and handmade products, legal please notify your legislator. The Handmade Toy Alliance makes it very easy to do at their site.

Here's some of my favorite handmade toys I ran into in Baltimore this past year. They are all 100% unique and handmade with love from recycled clothes and linens. Check them out at cottonmonster.com

Meg's finished poster design

Meg is amazing. Read about her here
Not much to say except wow, I can't wait to hang this one when its done:

Announcing Loose Limbs

Its Loose Limbs first poster, a collaboration between its founders Brandon Peck and Spencer Hansen.
25in x 9.5in
Two colors on French True White

Loose Limbs is a project intended to supply Richmond with screen printed propaganda (read show posters) that features its own local talent. Check out looselimbspress.com for more details soon.

P.S. That beard had to go somewhere.

Ghost Beard

This is the first small snippet of what will hopefully become a large, long-term project. This particular tidbit belongs to a show poster I'm working on with Brandon Peck. I'll post more details when we're further along.

-Spencer