Letterpress, laser cuts, and stamps, oh my!
Friday night — making a big book about whiskey.
The new Made Shop 2013 Linear Calendars are now available!
As always, we print them with a giant old letterpress onto thick poster stock. This year we are making a blue with red ink and a warm charcoal with silvery-white ink.
As those of you who’ve been following The Made Shop for a long time probably know, this whole linear calendar thing started as an experiment for my personal use four years ago because I wanted a beautiful year-at-a-glance calendar without a bunch of unusable month-boxes and I couldn’t find anything like that, so I ended up designing one myself. I posted the first one on tumblr, and tons of people wrote in saying they wanted to buy one. And now every year since we’ve just continued to make more and more of these. We’re so happy to keep making these for all of you each year.
They’re just $25 and available for order now, and will start shipping soon after Thanksgiving.
Orderly/Quarterly + Collectable/Delectable
(via jaredgeller)
The final print proofs for The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories Vol. 2 just arrived. So exciting!
Letterpress Spine Little Red Riding Hood REDUX
Our first issue of HITRECORDERLY has arrived from the printer!
Be the first on your block to own our inaugural issue!
(Source: hitrecord, via mattconley)
LRRH Draft 6 in progress…
Behold, the physical version of the album!
Designed by Marke at The Made Shop, Photography by Chris Kuehl, H&Mu by Bethany Johnson.
See you on the road this month!
Stranahan’s (extremely) Limited Release Snowflake Whiskey
There’s not much better than getting a gift of rare whiskey on Christmas Eve morning. But when it comes in a package that you yourself designed and comes directly from the people you designed it for, well that’s extra special.
Back when we started The Made Shop nearly 10 years ago and we were just a fledgling idea about wanting to work with family and make amazing things together, Zachary and I had always talked about two dream jobs: designing a book cover, and designing a whiskey bottle. (Because: obviously).
For the last six months, since about mid-summer, The Made Shop has been quietly working with Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey on a beautiful redesign of the brand, logos, typography, labels, as well as some much bigger projects that are still under wraps (which we can’t wait to show you all).
Nathan, Kim, Zachary, and I were all loyal fans of their Whiskey long before we could have even dreamed of one day working for them. It’s quite hard to get, especially outside of Colorado, but if you’ve had the pleasure of tasting it, you know what we mean. It’s hands-down my favorite whiskey. And about a year ago we were all just taking a tour of their Denver Distillery simply as whiskey-geek fans when Nathan decided to introduce us to the guide and let them know what we do on the off-chance they ever needed new design work.
To make quite a long story short: this morning, for Christmas, a bottle of Stranahan’s Limited Release Snowflake Whiskey, wrapped in packaging and branded with a logo we all designed, arrived at The Made Shop doorstep. It’s a wonderful gift to receive as the year ends and we remember ten years ago when this whole thing was just a big crazy dream.
Cheers!
(p.s. these photos show the special Snowflake gift packaging. We’ll be posting our new designs for the actual bottles soon :)
Just got these photos of our 2012 Linear Calendars being letterpress printed over at Studio on Fire.
Should be getting them here today and shipping orders tomorrow. So there’s still time to buy one today for Christmas delivery!
:)
Tiny Stories Foil Cover Stamping Evolution Options Organized Neatly
We’re doin’ a HALLOWEEN show in NYC — footsteps away from the big Halloween parade! :oD
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