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A moving pictorial about the making of an amazing Pictorial Printed Piece

Gadzooks! A really smart fellow we know just alerted us to this project.



Amazing!

Luckily this informative post did not take as long to make.

You can buy the unhand made version here.....
and of course if you have a a little more jingle in your jangle you can get the real deal from the printer himself!

What a beaut - I wish I didn't have to eat next month!

Find out more about the project or spend some dough with them at the Quercus Press site.

Hats off to my fellow printer - this was truly a herculean endeavor!

B. McCloud
in lieu of
H. Kneesch
Captain of industry

Nashville...and the world - congratulations you didn't get canceled Today 12-21-12

Someone asked me what's all this "As Seen on Nashville on TV" nonsense about the other day.

Well really they said, "Hey that's great why are you doing it?"

And I said, "Isn't it obvious?" And we both laughed!

But actually I think I gave a really long winded answer about public art and perception of self and ownership of ideas.  And then I really went on a long time about what it means to be aware of a moment happening in the moment.  And what that does to the moment.

And then I started talking about all the attention our city is getting and how it is changing so quickly and that we have to treasure the parts that make us unique and special as a people.

It is pretty fun to see your city in a semi made up way on tv.  Since I didn't make the story up - it seems sort of like a dream I might have of a familiar land that isn't quite how I remember it.   Though instead of Hayden Panettiere in it - it  would be my Mom or someone I haven't seen in a long time since high school.

But I digress...

As seen on Nashville!!!!
Hot damn
We made these prints so that they could be used!

Thus

Today we stopped by a few places here in Nashville that have actually been seen on Nashville the show to give them they're real prize of fame!

Our Print

It felt good to bestow our print that commemorated the event upon the people that are Nashvillians.  It really makes  the whole experience complete in my mind.

Reality to fiction to film to post production to the airwaves to my mind's reality back to shared physical reality again!  When folks started making prints to convey ideas across space and time this all would have seemed like pure fantasy to them!

And now we bring it back into this other intra-space that we all time travel on together
What a crazy world!!!!

I'm happy it is still turning
And I'm glad we have something to smile about as a group

Let us know ...if you know of a place that has been seen on Nashville and we'll try to get over there to properly celebrate.

And of course don't hesitate to pick up your own copy!  These projects are funded directly through your support.

Power to the people!

Your humble servants at Isle of Printing.

11th hour save from Isle of Printing's new Material Commerce Division

Yule tide greetings friends and neighbors!

Due to our extreme stance and this subject we at Isle of Printing willfully eschewed that scourge upon family values know to most as Black Friday and for good measure we thumbed our noses at Cyber Monday and Titillating Tuesday and whatever else the people at Entertainment Tonight have come up with to talk about lately.

While others--devious self serving, greedy scoundrels--sought to rob you of your time with those you love, we stayed out of the way.  More family, more friends we said!  And I am positive you were probably the better for it!

Thus in the continuing efforts of IOP to give you exactly what you want exactly when you need it we bring you the 12th Annual 

Oh Shit! I Haven't Bought Any Gifts Yet Weekend Extravaganza!!!!

Take a moment to peruse the listings we have dutifully loaded onto out little Etsy Shop and consider making someone much happier just in the Old Saint Nick of time!

It is our pledge to ship anything ordered this weekend and monday out by Tuesday so you can get it in your hot little hands ASAP (USPS) - get in touch if you need something faster!

Further more 

Conveniently offered here on the Internet are a few new things to make the end of the year more exciting that we have been cooking up just for you (and me!)

Here's a quick run down of the good tidings we bring!

Nifty Laser Style Bird Ornaments! 

If you can put a bird on it you should! Or so I heard. 

Straight from our hearts to yours via our laser cutter: six exciting hand-drawn birds etched into birch with some really nicely dyed twine to hang them from your tree or a nail or your ear.

Illustrated by the illustrious Shelby Rodefffer and packaged with a tiny red heart! You can't beat this holiday treat!  

$20 for all 6 in the set!

order now!

Laser Charms…with the Convincers! 

Hey, that's my wine!  Hey, why not have another glass! Hey, what's your number?

Some things don't need too much convincing…maybe just a tiny, tiny small voice of reason or gusto to help you out.  Which luckily you can find in our small grouping of tiny men extolling the virtues of whatever you think you are hearing them say.  

Laser cut from our collection of antique typographic ornaments into birch plywood, these dapper fellows will help you through any situation and help you rest easy knowing that drink is in fact still yours....and that you are very handsome/lovely.

Set of 10 charming fellows with sturdy clasps (roughly 1 1/2 inches tall)  packed together on a fancy recycled card.  

Get your clink on!

$25 for a set of 10

Do you see what I see!?

We've always been proud of our town. So it was with great relief that we found out last year that network TV was proud of Nashville, too!

Hooray Nashville!  Hooray those of you with cameras, budgets and clout!

Like silly school girls I think we all tune in once a week to see what magic has made our lives fit inside that box in our living rooms!

Hey I go there to the 5 spot...

Wait that's my bank!

Isn't that the bluebird cafe?  

I park in that lot.....

Maybe we see what we want to see (sometimes even our posters!) but I know we all are having a good time checking out the semi-made up version of what our lives are like. 

Anyway at least now the world can see what we all do when we aren't whittling on our porch or discovering electricity and shoes for the very first time (again).

How to celebrate such a thing in our city? How about the way we always have? With a nice letterpress poster!

Now you too can celebrate any and all fame surreptitiously derived from living in the location of a TV drama!  

Be you a major player or a minor pan shot, this is our town and it was on TV by god!

$20 in Nashville Red and brown chipboard  or in Nashville Red and white cardstock

Help make my dream of this poster being on the show happen and support the local arts in a very direct way!

Order here!

Amazing refillable wooden notebook  

"Mama if plywood is flat and rigid how come this wooden notebook bends and flexes like a noodle?"

***Attention***

If you are looking for a notebook that is wooden, novel, and quite beautiful you have come to the right place.  Crafted from a single piece of 1/8 birch, this notebook is laser cut in such a way as to have a flexible spine while retaining its tuff wooden good looks.  Inside is a replaceable letterpressed notebook with a one of a kind cover made from a real live IOP poster.  A classy cloth elastic band holds everything closed for easy transport.

A marvel of science and craft! Get yours today!

Size 5 5/8" x 4 3/8"

$30 for blank amazing wooden notebook 

Custom monograming $15 (see product details for current styles)

Makeready note refills available $10 each

Notebooks here!

Custom Version Here

Giant letters that make you happy you can spell.

A collaborative project that has been four plus years in the making - has finally arrived!!!!

Seen for the first time here today online and available for purchase

Our goal: to design a shadow typeface composed of a fill, a shadow and a major letter form that would give us the most design mileage possible from one letter set.  Each letter has three separate blocks that can be used alone or combined together in a seemingly endless parade of permutations. 

Our hope - to give people the opportunity to artfully use type in their lives in a big way!

A joint typographic project between mad Swiss printer Dafi Khüne of Baby Ink Twice and your humble servants here at Isle of Printing - 

With just 26 soldiers we can wage war on stupidity one word at a time.

What can I do with giant letters?  

Spell your name!

Spell your kid's name!

Tell the world you had a baby in the coolest way ever: XX or XY!

Insult your neighbors!

Make a paper word blanket!

Have fun with a librarian!

The possibilities of language are nearly limitless!

Get the very first prototypes to be run ever now!

Thus far we have toiled and produced

All the letters to spell I S L E  O F  P R I N T I N G

plus W D Y X ! 

What can I do with that? Use your brain, dummy!

You could spell HOTDOG! FOXY! HOE!

Or GOLF! PRIG! PEPPER!

More letters in the works....completion date pre X-mas 2012

Help us finish this project by buying a letter today!

$20 per letter

Size 18" x ?" depending on letter

Variable colors (dealer's choice based on careful psychic reading of your order)

order here!

Prehistoric laser buddies for your tree or cup hook over the door

When we think of lasers we think of plastics and when we think of plastics we think of petroleum products...and when we think of petroleum products we think of DINOSAURS!!!!

Ergo, we are always thinking about laser dinosaurs.  Our intrepid intern assistant pointed out that laser dinosaurs are very close to lasered dinosaurs.  So with a little work on her part we made that happen.

Illustrations courtesy of one Kelsey Taylor…lasering courtesy of the 21^st century.

Get a set of happy dinosaurs before they are extinct.... Again!

Hang them on your tree or 

Be the first on your block to ditch mistletoe for dinosaurs as the new doorjamb kissing sensation!

Set of 4 $20

(later tonight!)

the raising of the Prussian

Let's get together and have some fun

We like to think that if we are honest and our hearts are true - when the bow of creativity is bent back and our eyes are fixed on the prize.... That goodness will spring forth like a deer bounding through the woods and the sky will smile down on our creations. And heaven will dance in the embrace of love.

Or you might say

Into every box of cereal you reach, we hope you find a prize.

Often life is a puzzle and you must struggle to find the gem of day.  So hard to do.  Why couldn't it be easier?

Today we hope that we can make it a little easier for you - with a few pieces of paper you
(we) can be clever enough to put a little zip in your zing.

That's it!!! Tell me more chippie!

3 posters that merge in to one. Three parts that make a whole!  Bird into man, man on paper, birds made from space. Space defining matter.....One becomes all.....

Pleasing both in a cosmological sense AND reading high on the gee whiz scale.
14th century technology living it up with the best of the 21st century
Electric lights
Rock and roll
Movie stars

That's some crazy stuff!!!!

but wait check this out 

Each part (poster) was conceived to thrive on its  own when necessary but like a lot things in life it only gets better when you find a few friends to share the party with......

Someday perhaps we'll lay down the microscopic biopic details of how this puzzle got from here to yonder but until then check out this lovely short film by Leigh Jurecka that does a stellar job of telling the tale In moving pictures. Which I do hear the kids love these days. 



A few final thoughts:

#1 Yes each black print was letterpressed twice with silver and silver blue ink

    #1a. Everything went through a press and was touched at least once probably 50 times!

#2 Two of the three prints were cut only by a laser (a laser!) connected to a computer which was 

    connected to my paper sketch pad!!!!

#3 This was a collaboration between Matthew Jacobson and Bryce McCloud at Isle of Printing. It was          a lot of fun - (try it sometime!)

#4  All stunts were performed by the actors (and Bryce IS available as a hand model)

#5 150 of each poster will be available over two days and nights at 3rd man records and the Ryman            Auditorium (which means 75 of each design today)

#6  Though inferred from reality no poster presented claims to really be a peacock, vulture, or musician

     #6a. It takes a tough man to give a tender forecast......

#7 Time is short - be good to those around you and choose love over greed whenever life gives you the      choice. 

more info here at Jack White's website

Many thanks to Jack White, Matthew Jacobson (co designer), the fine folks at Third Man Records, and everyone else in this world who actively support bringing novelty into our lives as a testament that the simple joys available in art and music CAN make our lives 1000 times better than they were before.(*)

Enjoy the show
Your humble servant
Hiram Kneesch

ps Take that Portlandia!

*my current entry for 2012's longest useful run on sentence