Letterpress Love in Pittsburgh

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I was recently talking to a friend and admiring his beautifully letterpress buisness cards – I know there are a few letterpress shops here in Pittsburgh too.

Shannon from War Admiral Press – designed the wedding invitations for our very own blogger Maya!  – check out the invitations here – Maya was thrilled with the finished invites and happy to use a local printer too.  There is even a Flickr group for Pittsburgh Letterpress – I think it is run by the folks who publish the zine Ker-Bloom which is one of the only letterpress zine’s around – check out Issue 74 which is all about Pittsburgh.

Perfect timing because January 30, 2010 is the Pittsburgh craft collective’s Letterpress Demo afternoon.  This is one event that I did not get to attend last year and I am very happy to see the events return.  Here is a nice write up of last years Letterpress demo from the blog Something Pretty.

Letterpress Demo
Saturday, January 30, 2010 2-4pm
The Design Center, 5001 Baum Blvd.
Free for Pittsburgh Craft Collective Members, $5 for Non Members

Just in time for Valentine’s day you will get to make your own valentine

RSVP for the Letterpress Demo on Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=268788245886

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Lindsay has been writing about Pittsburgh for as long as she has been blogging - but fortunatly there are lots of great things about Pittsburgh to share. She likes pretzels from the Pretzel Shop on Carson St., used book stores, her rollerblades and she hopes to learn to skateboard someday soon. Lindsay is also working on BlogLocal which is building a map of blogs with local content.