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The hard copy is 240 x 92mm, printed on two weights of Kraft paper and hand-sewn in a horizontal format. If you would like to purchase a copy, wave your mouse over the top of this page to find the red drop-down Duckshop link. Or contact me directly.

For images of the production, have a look at my letterpress flickr set. For the story of its production, click here.

Craft ACT approached me, asking for an exclusive line of cards that could, among other things, be used as condolence cards! Apparently they get occasional enquiries after cards that could fit that bill.

Once I got thinking and printing, I was hooked.  So, I present to you my first line of letterpress cards, sold exclusively at the Craft ACT shop:

White Light: a vintage letterpress cut and 36pt Latin Elongated typeface, printed in pewter ink on Fabriano Tiepolo paper and accompanied by a metallic pewter envelope. 140 x 140mm. Limited edition of 45 prints.

Black Light: a vintage letterpress cut and 36pt Latin Elongated typeface, printed in silver ink on Black cardstock and accompanied by a Marshmallow white envelope. 140 x 140mm. Limited edition of 50 prints.

Sorry Tree: wood type printed in a metallic brown ink onto a hand-rolled sea-green background ‘smudge’, printed on Fabriano Tiepolo paper and accompanied by a recycled brown envelope. 140 x 140mm. Limited edition of 40 prints.

Mulberry Love : 2-colour wood type print in orange and mulberry, printed on Fabriano Tiepolo paper and accompanied by a metallic moss envelope. 140 x 140mm. Limited edition of 45 prints.

Aren’t they nice? More soon. Each edition is limited, meaning that if I use that design again, it will be in a completely different colour run. Hopefully they won’t last long, so don’t miss out…

I offered to make a promotional poster that could double as my work in the show.

'wood chop' is on the left, 'fairy floss' on the right

This was the first thing I printed in my new studio, on my new press, and I used the poster to test out what Kitty the Vandercook could do… so each poster took multiple passes of the press. The metal type (the names) took two passes for each colour scheme, and the wood type (the top half of the poster) took four passes of the press each, one for the background colour run (hard to see in the reproduction!), two for the main colours, and one for the — hand-applied — rainbow roll on the number. The stars were then hand cut and stamped.

The poster itself is quite large; we scanned one to make an A5 invite for the show.

One of the (many) lessons learned with these posters is that soy-based ink doesn’t like drying on coated paper stock. I can’t buy oil-based ink locally anymore, so the learning curve was a double one working with the press, and working with the ink. Still, I think they worked out ok. There are 10 of each colour.

These are still available, and priced at Aus$50 each plus postage and handling.

Contact me for more details or to purchase. I will send you an invoice that can be paid by Paypal, EFT or cheque.

(I also made some quick splash posters to hang around the campus. They were souvenired pretty quickly!)

The ultimate in automatic writing, these pages are pristine examples of computer spam culled from my virtual in-tray, typeset and then printed as a traditional style of fine press poetry chapbook.

Handset, letter by letter, in wood and metal type, and printed in two colours on tyvek (a plastic stock) and card. 8pp, with a hand-rolled and hand-stitched cover.

Ampersand Duck chapzines promise to give you something different in a very familiar way.

Edition of 100.  AVAILABLE

Aus$25 ea

Contact me for more details or to purchase. I will send you an invoice that can be paid by Paypal, EFT or cheque. Thanks to the non-weighty goodness of paper, up to 3 copies can be sent with only one postage charge.