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Mad Maude Letterpress: The Making of Our Civil War Notecards

I can barely control my excitement. Mad Maude Letterpress is so fantastic. Ryan Howell and crew worked with us on our custom letterpressed clothing hangtags and logo stationery. The shots of metal type and old-fashioned printing presses from our lookbook were taken in their Kensington studio. And now, one last hurrah before the faithful crew re-locates to The Dirty South. (tear, tear, tear)… an incredible edition of notecards, inspired by Civil War images from the archives of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. This series of pro-Union images were printed on envelopes, which were used by the U.S. Mail and collected as souvenirs by soldiers and civilians.

We had the good fortune of dropping by while the plates for the Jefferson Davis/Mule design were still on the press! These aluminum plates were created from vector art files derived from high resolution scans of original documents. The printing press used here is an Original Heidelberg Windmill press, a German creation dating back 130 years!

Jefferson Davis upside down!

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Ryan Howell at the Heidelberg helm.

The proof is in…The Proof!

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Drop by the store to check out the cards in person, or pick up a few right here on the web!

Written by robin on 12/15/2008 in AITA Original | Blog | Graphic Design | Printmaking

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