Monday, November 09, 2009

Studio on Fire Tour

Last Friday, I had the opportunity to meet up with the owner of Studio on Fire, Ben Levitz in Minneapolis. He showed me and my husband around the studio and let me just say this....when I saw that wall covered with all their letterpressed pieces, my eyes glazed over and felt like I was in design heaven! Even my husband discovered a new found respect for letterpress studios and for a split second, he considered giving up his medical career to become a printer. Haha! right. Studio on Fire was beyond what I imagined to be! Thanks Ben for the tour! And don't forget to check out their blog here!

And now time for me to shut up and show you some pictures:

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entrance to their studio:
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This is the part where my eyes glazed...
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And this is what made my husband's eyes glaze over...those beer cans!
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Here's Ben giving us the grand tour!
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thanks!
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14 comments:

jane said...

wow! that must have been fun :)

Dionne said...

Oh, I LOVE that diecut piece, how intricate!

I used to be a Graphic Designer at www.budge.com when I lived in Los Angeles. We did a lot of letterpress there, I fell in love with it when I worked there.

What a fun tour!

PS. In response to your comment about the Tea Cake, are you on Facebook? I have the recipe up on my personal Facebook page. If you have one, look me up! I think I am the only Dionne Christiansen on Facebook.

Dionne said...

Ooops. I missed the letter "r", I used to work at http://www.burdge.com, not budge, hehehe.

Emily Symonds said...

*gasp!* Those lace invites fourth from the top... They are insanely beautiful! It looks like you had a great tour, I wish there were studios like that around here!

Chris said...

wow super cool place...amazing work.

Chris said...

things are great here! Started the blog couple of weeks ago so needs some work. All your smitten stuff is pretty cool, keep up the good design and good blog.

Conversation Pieces said...

LOVE the papercut one - that's so so gorgeous!!

Grace said...

LETTERPRESS!!! Can't wait to do some of that on our own!

Tommy said...

This is SO great! I love the simple magnets and that card with the teabag inside. Thanks for sharing!

simplesong said...

how amazing! i would have been in letterpress heaven. they're are seriously the king of letterpress. thanks for sharing!

alyson. said...

I'm speechless. those lace invites are amaaaaazing.

emily said...

Just looking at those pictures of all that letterpress work gave me chills! I love their work.

Type & Swash said...

OMG! that studio is awesome! It's so amazing that I blogged about it on my blog and linked everything back to you! Thank you for the wonderful post!

Grace said...

OMG! Sooo inspiring! Thanks for sharing the pics. What an amazing tour!