You know that feeling you get when you see something you had no idea you wanted but now you’ve seen it you can’t imagine living without it? That’s how we feel about Lego Letterpress. Our walls currently feel bare without a lego print on them. But then again, we’re probably just odd. There’s still some left on Physical Fiction so we’d advise getting there before we do. (Pics: Fubiz) (Store: Physical Fiction)

Our friends at Repeat worked this lunar calendar. I love circle posters. “This is a 2011 lunar calendar designed by Amar Dhadwal and printed by Mike Dacey of Repeat Press. The calendar features a graphic representation of the phases of the moon printed in silver ink, with a grid overprinted in a clear gloss showing the months and days of the year. Printed on 100lb French Nightshift Blue paper using a Vandercook SP20 letterpress, the calendar measures 9.5×22″.” Etsy – of course.

More looks after the click.

Mike Dacey of Repeat Press gives his roundup.

01. Preserve

New Zealand based website dedicated to the preservation of hand painted signage from around the world. Of course, the above image is a favorite.

02. A Curious Catalogue – Michael Leon

Nieves latest publication A Curious Catalogue is a “skateboard product catalogue of pencil drawn anti-graphics, spin-art wheels, and slalom gemstones. It was designed to take a romantic and fantastic vision of a skateboard company and make it ‘real’.” Super rad, love the spin-art wheels painted by holding a pen against a rolling skateboard wheel. (nieves)

03. Tom Sachs’ 10 Bullets

“This amazing video from artist Tom Sachs is worth the twenty minutes it takes to watch. It’s not about print but it is about a tight-running studio operation- something we can all aspire to. It’s inspirational. Imagine the Ryan McGinness Studio Manual interpreted by filmmaker Wes Anderson and you might get something like this…” (via printeresting)

04. Crazy Russian kids DIY bungee jumping

“Crazy Russian Parkour” videos just got one-upped. This girl is going to have falling nightmares for years. What is the rope even attached to? Are they holding it? (via The Wizard Gang)

01. If illustrators designed football shirts… (above)

“With the World Cup just around the corner, it’s not surprising to find that various brands with strong connections to the glorious game are producing spanky new products for us to buy. Both Umbro and Nike have commissioned illustrators to devise emblems and badges to be embroidered on to alternative versions of national team shirts…” Andre’s work is above. (creativereview)

02. A Heavy Batch of New Vinyl from Important Records

“It’s been a little bit since I’ve gotten to write about some good doom metal records, and that’s exactly what Important Records just dropped on the masses.  First up is the year-and-a-half late vinyl issue of Ocean’s heavy, heavy album, “Pantheon Of The Lesser”.  This 2xLP comes on clear (edition of 100), orange (edition of 100), or black vinyl (edition of 300).  It is housed in a four-part handmade letterpress jacket.  All this for $25.  Visit ImportantRecords.com.” (omg)

03. Sneak Preview of ‘Los Angeles, I’m Yours’

“I wanted to start posting some previews of Los Angeles, I’m Yours so everyone can get a sense of what we’re up to. We’ve been busy all week putting together the show and I think it’s really starting to look great. The first image is a giant chalkboard wall we’ve got that we’re going to putting the names of the artists on as well putting some shelving to display the work.” (+kn)

04. This magazine stinks

“For issue 23, the magazine has teamed up with Norwegian smell artist Sissel Tolaas. It comes in a simple, ordinary booklet format using a gloss paper with a slightly heavier stock for the cover. The entire issue is visually uninventive – one lengthy (but fascinating) Q&A interview runs in 12pt sans serif throughout the pages.” (magculture)

Suka Creative worked the production of this Thanksgiving holiday card for a client. It is a trend it would seem for people to send out alternative holiday cards – skipping Christmas cards for example. Some background on the design of the card. “My first idea was to design a single fold card, that when closed would read as one message and when opened revealed another message. You know, kind of like the secret decoder rings that you get in a Kracker Jack box. After tons of exploration and in taking with my creative director Brian Wong, he suggested using a colored vellum envelope and making the card more like a postcard rather than a greeting card. It took a lot of trials and errors to find the right colors that would create the “secret message” effect but still have a Thanksgiving feel to them.” Love the letterpress work on this one. (fyc)

More looks at this Thanksgiving Card after the click.

One of the more interesting music mags on the market, Journal of Popular Noise,  is about to drop their Issue 16-18 combo pack and is a a special edition featuring selections from Foscil’s Residential.As mentioned before here, the magazine’s format is a nontraditional one. “Inspired by the traditions of pop music, printed periodicals, and the delight of a finely crafted artifact,” Journal of Popular Noise is produced in an edition of 300 letterpress printed, hand folded copies.

“This edition marks a departure from the regular guidelines artists are asked to submit to. But due to the repetition, variation, and restrictions Foscil placed upon themselves throughout the 6 month series of live performances that led up to and informed the recordings, we feel that the spirit of the JPN is properly represented.”

01. Bicycle Diaries: David Byrne Bikes the World’s Cities

“For most people, bicycles represent a means of transportation, a fun activity, or even objects of affection. For David Byrne they’re much more – they offer a unique opportunity to experience the culture, history, and vitality contained within our built environment. Due for release today, Bicycle Diaries is a freewheeling travelogue that finds Byrne pedaling through the cities of the world as he expounds upon architecture, infrastructure, and life within the world’s great cities.” (inhabitant)

04. Where The Wild Things Are Pop-Up Shop at Space 15 Twenty (above)

“Last Saturday I spent pretty much all day traveling. I got on a plane in Chicago at 1pm and landed in Los Angeles at 8pm. Did that stop me from going to the Where The Wild Things Are pop-up shop at Space 15 Twenty? Nope. This time around they totally tricked out the space, filling ti with all kinds of trees and branches and even made a giant log nest kinda’ thing. Scattered around that were all kinds of Wild Things merchandise like t-shirts with Geoff McFetridege drawings, books, toys and stuffed animals. Max Records, the kid who plays Max in the movie, was even there running around and wearing a big silver crown.” (+kn)

02. Designing Obama

“The Design Director of the Obama campaign, Scott Thomas, has collaborated with artists and designers to create Designing Obama, a chronicle of the art and design from the historic campaign. The 360-page book is full-color and hardbound, highly crafted with an embossed sleeve. Forewords written by Steven Heller and Michael Beirut.”  (cpluv)

03. Sheaff : ephemera

A website devoted to everything ephemera. “I have always found myself keenly interested in a seemingly endless list of vintage things: stamps, postal history, trade cards, billheads, trade cards, broadsides, cartes-de-visite, stereo views, tickets, engravings, chromolithographs, early American glass, Irish blown three-mold glass, patent medicine bottles, flasks, almanacs, postcards, marbled paper, early letterpress printing, typography, books, African art, record album covers, airbrushed restaurant china, Micronesian tapa cloth . . . ”  (sheaff-ephemera)

01. Lamborghini Murcielago Strada Concept

“The Lamborghini Murcielago Strada Concept by Reiter Engineering has replaced the front splitter, rear diffuser, and rear wing with carbon fiber parts. The new vented hood gives it a mean machine look as well.” (notcot)

02. Pete Doherty: ‘We’ve discussed making a new Libertines album’

“Pete Doherty has revealed that he and Carl Barat discussed plans to make an album and tour together after The Libertines reunited for a one-off gig in London in May.” (nme)

03. 70’s HOCKEY MASKS

See above. (arkitip)

04. Big Book: The Handy Book of Artistic Printing

” ‘Degenerate,’ ‘meaningless,’ and ‘barbaric’ were some of the words critics used to describe artistic printing—an ornately decorative style that flourished in late-nineteenth-century Britain and America. Letterpress printers (small shops where type was laboriously set by hand) developed it in making business cards, advertisements, and other ‘ephemera’ of daily life. It soon became known as the paper equivalent of a Victorian bourgeois living room” (wsj)