Ye Olde Sesame Letterpress Blog of Brooklyn

2008-02-11T17:50:00.000-08:00

HANGING by Alyson Fox

We did a collaboration with the artist Alyson Fox. She did the drawing... we letterpress printed it on paper... then she watercolored each print individually.

Alyson Fox's website

2008-02-11T17:15:00.001-08:00

Happy Valentine's Week!

sesame letterpress coasters

2007-12-04T20:30:00.001-08:00

sesameletterpress, originally uploaded by earkin.

More stalking of peeps on Flickr...

workspace: find the coasters!

2007-12-04T20:27:00.001-08:00

workspace, originally uploaded by vellum, yeah!.

Another cool pic I found whist cruising Flickr

card corner @ Rare Device in SF

2007-12-04T20:26:00.001-08:00

card corner, originally uploaded by reebob.

I found this photo of our cards at the super cool store called Rare Device while being odd and searching for Sesame LP pix on Flickr :)

Panorama del paper

2007-12-04T20:21:00.001-08:00

sesame_letterpress, originally uploaded by *thecraftydevils*.

I found this poking around Flickr. Good times.

Sesame Letterpress Designs - Available at Target now - Reindeer

2007-12-01T19:41:00.001-08:00

Sesame Letterpress Designs - Available at Target now - Reindeer, originally uploaded by sesame letterpress.

Yup -- we licensed a few of our holiday designs to the people at Le Target so they could whip up some low-cost offset versions of our cards. They are uber cheap compared to lettepress... now you can afford to send high style to your entire list!

2007-12-01T19:33:00.000-08:00

As crazy as it may sound, Brigitte Birdot is getting a bunch of our letterpress holiday cards via Cursive New York at ABC Carpet & Home.

Breck is pretty excited as she is a huge fan.

This year we printed Caroline Kennedy's personal Xmas cards (meaning everyone from Oprah to the Clintons to the Governator to the Queen of England will see our work)... and now Brigitte Birdot. Go Breck!

I'd be psyched if we got to do David Lee Roth's holiday card. Just a little palm tree and a pair of red spandex santa pants... er...or...um... forget it.

-matt

2007-10-31T19:33:00.000-07:00

I (Matt) was fishing around on Technorati for mentions about Sesame Letterpress on the blogosphere (yes, I am that nerdy) and ran across this nice write-up about birds as design elements in the wonderful world of weddings (before, during, after) as well as the rest of a well-done blog penned by Sarah Dennis. The pics of our work look a little funky (Flickr does that to people sometimes.

Check it out: Blog of the moment, Toast and Tables.

2007-10-22T17:03:00.000-07:00

Where to find Sesame Letterpress goods:
Our retail partners.

In an effort to give folks better access to our goods, here is our best attempt at listing all the places you can find our letterpress printed items at retail.

ONLINE

Elswares.com
Elsewares is a great online store based in Brooklyn that features all sorts of cool design items: Stationery, houswares, wearables and more -- all from indie designers who are earth and people-friendly (like us!). Elswares carries a large portion of our coaster line as well as some of our most popular greeting cards.

BuyOlympia.com
Buy Olympia is, like the name implies, operated out of Olympia, WA. They carry great indie goods from many of the Northwest's roster of indie designers and a few others that tickle their fancies. Soaps, shirts, ties, stationery, zines, CDs, books and mucho mas. They have a few exclusive coaster designs along with our usual line.

Greener Grass Design
A nice assortment of high-end items from lamps to bar ware to items for your pooch. Frankly, it's hard to explain their collection besides saying everything is very cool and cohesive and well worth a look! They carry our coasters and select stationery items.

Broadway Paper
Looking for our file folders? Look no further.

Anthropologie
This chic chain carries our coasters online and in select stores. The coasters, online, are not referred to as "Sesame Letterpress coasters". Just do a search for "coasters".

The Red Seat
Looking for some wicked hot Red Sox stuff? They design it, we print it, they sell it.

Brick and Mortar stores (shopping, IRL)

NEW YORK (our home state, so it gets first dibs)

New York City/Brooklyn

ABC Carpet and Home (Union Square)

Cog & Pearl (Park Slope)

Sprout Home - (Williamsburg)

Cat Bird (Williamsburg - 2 locations)

Art'zen (Cobble/Boerum Hill)

Lion in the Sun (Park Slope)

Andes (Catskills area)

Delaware Trading Post

CALIFORNIA

San Francisco

SFMOMA Gift Shop

Rose and Radish

Little Otsu

Sonoma
Grange Sonoma

COLORADO

Crested Butte
Casa Bella

FLORIDA

Miami
Tabu

Captiva/Sanibel
Captiva Provisions Co. at South Seas Resort

ILLINOIS

Chicago
Sprout Home

MASSACHUSETTS

CONCORD
Dotted I

MINNESOTA

Minneapolis
Letterbox

NEW JERSEY

Chatham
Cambridge Street Papers

NORTH CAROLINA

Cary
Umstead Hotel & Spa

OREGON

Klameth Falls
Ninety-Six Ten Gallery

RHODE ISLAND

Providence
Figments Design

WISCONSIN

Middleton (Madison area)
Dottie Rose

The rest of the world

Czech Republic

Artel
Prague

Spain

BOO
Barcelona

UK

Magma Books
London

2007-07-17T08:23:00.001-07:00

Technorati Profile

2007-07-13T09:46:00.000-07:00

The uber-stylish folks over at ELLE Magazine decided to feature Sesame Letterpress in their MUST HAVE section today! Woohoo!

Click here to see Sesame Lettrpress in ELLE

2006-11-06T19:28:00.000-08:00

Holiday Cards!

Here are a few shots of our new holiday cards.

2006-11-02T08:43:00.000-08:00

We made these little guys for the Design*Sponge store. A portion of the proceeds from the store go to charities. These were a lot harder to print that I orginally thought with all the exact registration and different image thicknesses on the little hand press. They turned out lovely!

You can see it here:

designspongeshop.com/ds-nov-prod6.html

2006-10-26T12:41:00.000-07:00

We've been printing our coasters for nearly five years now. We've only sold them outside of Brooklyn for about a year... and boy has the business picked up since then! Here's a pic of our current offering for retail. We get lots of requests to print these in alternate colors for weddings.

2006-10-26T12:21:00.000-07:00

Since we use smoking-hot 16th-century technology to print our goods, why not start a blog? The Golding Jobber has a usb port don't ya know (har har har).

One time a visitor to our studio asked how we get plates made:

"Do you then hook your computer up to your press to project the image?".

I nearly lost it. Breck was biting her tongue on the other side of the studio.