Paper & Chocolate Holiday Open House

We welcome our friends and neighbors to join us for our fourth annual open house and holiday celebration of Paper & Chocolate. As always, we are delighted to share the studio with fellow paper and chocolate artisans May Day Studio, Pressbound, Chasing Square and our newest neighbors, Elaine Hsieh Chocolatier. To round out the afternoon, our neighbors downstairs at the Taza Chocolate Factory Store will be open as well for tastes and tours.

Hope to see you all there!

Open House & Studio Sale!

On Saturday, May 2, 2009 we'll be opening our studio doors and inviting everyone to join us to

• learn how letterpress is done and see print demonstrations
  
• get a sneak peek at our new lines of cards and journals
  
• buy a card for your mom (Mother's Day is May 10!)
• score some great goods cheap at our spring cleaning clearance table
• drop by our tasty neighbors Taza Chocolate for a tour and tastings
  

In conjunction with Somerville Open Studios and Taza Chocolate Open House.


(just some of the overstock packaged up for sale)

We'll be open from 11 am until 5 pm. The studio is located on the second floor of 561 Windsor Street in Somerville (between Inman and Union Squares). Free car parking is available across the street. Free bicycle parking out front.



(our new journals - above, and some new Lines cards - below)



Hope to see you there!

I think I'm in heaven

About two weeks ago Dave and Beth from Hot Metal Services came by to service our Vandercook. They're in the very small field of yeoman traveling repairmen who circulate the country fixing up linotype & ludlow machines, and vandercook presses. Since we're across the hall from our own chocolate factory, Dave mentioned hearing about some chocolate letterpress type and I simply had to know more.



What I discovered was Typolade, a German company producing chocolate letters inspired by the letterpress hand-set type tradition. Or in their own words,

"Typolade - the sweet blend of typography and chocolate. In memory of the black art of type setting, we are producing letters out of high quality, handmade chocolate."

You can experience 48 point FagoMo Bold as a "typographic sensation of taste" or create "a moment of literal enjoyment" for another.



As Blayne would say, typelicious.