Lettera di Natale

Pop up laboratory for kids set for the 4th December at Confabula bookshop. Children and I will write our “caro babbo” i.e. dear Santa letters for the season followed by Christmas stories.
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POP UP WORKSHOP LETTERA DI NATALE
"CARO BABBO” MONDOVI, ITALY

E-mail Newsletter :: Letterpress, Workshop & Handmade

Pirouette Press is located in Piedmont, Italy. A very special place and just a skip from the Langhe wine hills. For those of you planning a wedding, or for those of you planning a special event I would love to work on your stationery designs. I also conduct letterpress workshops in my studio if you are more interested in learning the craft. Keep up with latest and subscribe to the email newsletter. 

Letterpress Summer Camp :: Risparmiate DIY Inviti

Save money on your special letterpress prints for a special event and come to a two day letterpress summer camp! By the way, I’m located in north Italy -- just a skip away from the wine hills. Letterpress by morning and sip outstanding Italian wine from the tons of wineries in our area. Sounds like my kind of camp.

IT: Risparmiate soldi sulle vostre invite matrimoniale o qualsiasi evento speciale! Venite a un campo estivo DIY.

more info. pirouettepress@gmail.com

The Experience :: Letterpress Workers

The Experience with Letterpress Workers an international letterpress summit hosted by Officina Tipografica Novepunti has culminated in a book recounting their (our) adventures. I was fortunate to have been part of this experience and met many nice and talented people who gathered for several days under one roof in Milan to do what we are passionate about, letterpress.

The experience lives on, and as I wasn’t able to take part in the 2014 session due to my growing belly, I look forward to the next in 2015!

More photos here

Happy Maker Station :: Secret to Happiness Revealed

Along with a host of original Italian craft, art and design, Happy Maker Station introduced a couple of dedicated products at the second annual event this year. Pirouette Press along with graphic designer Paola Paoletti created fleece wood type letterpress “Be Happy” pillows and printed cotton shopping bags. 

Here’s a mini diy: Vintage Milk Bottle Packaging
Use re-purposed tomato sauce bottles. Spray paint the lids, use cotton tape (or other decorative tape) and sticker (in our case, we used the HMS logo) to create a vintage type seal.

The bottles could be fun to re-use again in other imaginative ways. The pillows included a secret to happiness tag which read, “ La felicita sta in una bollincina - Happiness is in a bubble" (roughly translated) and bubble wrap overlay. Who doesn’t love the simple funny pleasures of popping bubble wrap?

A parallel prints on cloth laboratory was also conducted. The public could bring in a t-shirt or similar cloth for us to print on. Some of the stylists brought cloth to be eventually turned into their own creations. I can’t wait to see them!

A re-cap of Happy Maker Station 2014 / Italian creatives works here
photo credits: Lisa Di Sabato, Maker at HMS 2014

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These QR codes look like modern art pieces. This one is to subscribe to Pirouette Press free NEWSLETTER when you’re mobile. New updates on the way.

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Artisanal Fair Italia :: Letterpress Demonstration

This is a special time of year as I get to spend it with the guys at the printing museum collaborating on the organization of the Artigianato (artisanal fair) 10-16 August. There will be two letterpress printing posts outside in our lovely Piazza Maggiore in the historic part of Mondovì. At one post Pirouette Press and Claudio Mandella of 9PT will pay homage to pop artist Andy Warhol by printing up some letterpress postcards with some infamous quotes by yours truly. I was moved by Warhol because of his willingness to mix it up and experiment with various mediums, including film, and techniques like printing.

These are the results of our 2 day homage to Andy Warhol -- great fun!

Turntable Tuesday : Homage to Andy Warhol : 2 Day Letterpress Print Performance

I’ve revisited Andy Warhol, who celebrated a birthday on the 6th of August, and plan a two day letterpress print performance with friend Claudio Mandella from 9PT (14-15 August, 2013 Mondovì, Italy). This is a homage to a fantastic artist--not to be mistaken as an Abstract Expressionist, but the purveyor of Pop Art. Warhol had the cool capacity to make his objects d’art "un-unique". Common sources Warhol used in his works in fact came from reproductions from popular American culture like advertisements, hollywood icons and newspaper clippings.

Heinz 57  limited ed. letterpress postcards

Turntable Tuesday :: 15 min. of Fame

The artisanal fair is around the corner and Pirouette Press along with 9PT will be paying homage to artist Andy Warhol. Some suitable tunes would then be by Warhol’s band The Velvet Underground and others influenced by them.

La fiera artigianale è dietro l'angolo e Pirouette Press insieme con 9PT farà omaggio all'artista Andy Warhol. Alcuni brani adatti sarebbero quindi dalla banda di Warhol dei Velvet Underground e altri influenzati da loro.

15 min. of Fame

The Velvet Underground :: Rock&Roll (Gigamesh edit)

The Velvet Underground :: There She Goes Again

The Velvet Underground :: Who Loves The Sun

David Bowie :: Andy Warhol

A Studio Visit and 5 Star Pit Stop

This month I had Manolab visit Pirouette Press studio over a weekend.  We made a pit stop in the Langhe (wine hills) at Il Boscareto, a 5 Star hotel with an “L”, (meaning lusso or luxurious) near by. Lucky for us, it’s OK to just pop in for a glass of wine and take-in the beautiful landscape!

But, back to printing... Nora and Marco are new to letterpress, but that didn’t hold them back from composing a more complicated design.

Questo mese Manolab ha visitato lo studio di Pirouette Press per un weekend. Abbiamo fatto una fermata nelle Langhe (vino, colline) a Il Boscareto, un hotel a 5 stelle con una "L", (nel senso di Lusso o di lusso) nelle vicinanze. Fortunatamente per noi, va bene solo prendere un bicchiere di vino e l'adozione nel bellissimo paesaggio!

Ma, torniamo alla stampa...Nora e Marco sono nuovi a letterpress, ma ciò non li ha trattenuti dal comporre un design più complicato.

The design was one color (that’s what we had time for), hand-mixed and pretty darn close to the color scheme they use for their identity system. They chose to compose their tag line "Paper, Scissors and Heart” in vertical and their name in horizontal. We experimented on different paper, texture and this one was printed on the back of a postcard.

Il design era un colore, mescolato a mano e vicino alla combinazione di colori che utilizzano per il loro logo e identità. Hanno scelto per comporre "carta, forbici e Cuore” il loro pay-off in verticale e il loro nome, Manolab, in orizzontale. Abbiamo sperimentato su carta diversa, consistenza e questo è stato stampato sul retro di una cartolina.

Letterpress Workshop in Italy: Take 1

The first ever edition Pirouette Press workshop along side Officina Tipografica Novepunti, letterpress design group from Milan, took place this last weekend at the Museum of Printing. The theme was to make typographic Christmas cards using wood and/or lead type. The participants dug in and just after a few hours were in the 'printing zone’.  There is a new and fast growing wave of letterpress printing in Italy, and it was exciting to see this historical Italian type made by historical type foundries put back to work!

Top left clockwise: Print proofs, Matteo Vio and Jacopo Mencacci of 9PT,
Merry Christmas card project by Paola Paoletti, Partipants Paola Paoletti and Alessia Ambrogio 

    

Me recording the awesome work!

Saluti da Mondovì :: Letterpress Workshop in lovely Italy

Letterpress Workshop with Officina Tipografica Novepunti and Pirouette Press in Mondovì, Italy at the Printing Museum in the historical city centre. 

Enter by 12-10-12

October 20-21, 2012

150 euros - 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. - min. 4/max 6 people. 

Saluti da Mondovì-prima li stampi, poi li spedisci 

Il Natale si avvincina e non hai voglia di cercare fra mille cartoline tutte uguali? 

Oppure vorresti fare auguri personali tutto l’anno? Potresti essere nel posto giusto!

sabato 20 e domenica 21 ottobre, presso Museo della Stampa-Mondovi, workshop di  stampa a caratteri mobili con  Officina Tipografica Novepunti di Milano e Pirouette Press.

Entro: 12-10-12

Costo : 150 euro (materiali compresi) 

ore 10-18  minimo 4 | massimo  6 persone

Saluti e baci da Mondovì | Officina Tipografica Novepunti

Very kind of Milan based letterpress printers, 9PT to write this article on our laboratory experiment together.
Saluti e baci da Mondovì | Officina Tipografica Novepunti