Join us Saturday, December 10th for our second-annual Holiday Card Mini-DIY-Magnetic-Poetry Workshop. In groups of 10-each, workshop attendees will pick from our collection of common and not-so-common holiday card phrases to create one-of-a-kind hand letterpress printed cards. The morning session has sold out, but there are still spaces available in the 1PM and 3PM sessions. No experience necessary, suitable for ages 10-and-up. The workshops cost $40. Register here.

The holiday season has arrived, and so have the holiday sales. This Friday and Saturday only, we're offering free shipping on all domestic orders! Get a jump start on your holiday shopping with a little help from us. Also, if you are a Baltimore local, please join us this Friday for the second Station North Final Friday event. This month's event is a Holiday Art Market, being held in the Market Gallery at 16 W. North Ave (right next door to us!). Come buy from local artists - we'll be open too selling posters of course. See you Friday - and don't forget about Small Business Saturday - keep your money local this holiday season and buy from a Small Business, either here in Baltimore or wherever you happen to be!

Our mini card-workshops are back! This Saturday we're hosting our Thank You / Monogram cards workshop. Each two-hour session will accommodate ten participants. Attendees will pick from our assortment of monograms and thank-you card phrases to print thirty custom letterpress printed cards. Only a handful of spots remain for this so click through and sign up. Register here.

We are very excited to share with you pages 30 and 31 of the November 2011 issue of HOW Magazine! That's US! What began as a mid-week studio visit turned into a 2-page spread in the current issue of HOW. We couldn't be more tickled to see this thing on our coffee table. If you have a chance, pick up a copy for yourselves. If you can't, just click the image above for a hi-res version of it. Thanks to Matthew Yake for taking our photos so nicely. Sorry we made funny faces.

The overlap of printers and drinkers is a long standing tradition. And while we will never condone drinking while operating heavy machinery, we DO recommend the mixing of beer and printing in poster form... Baltimore Beer Week gave us total freedom on a limited edition poster for this year's festivities. The overarching theme was the American Brewery building, a stunning building built in Baltimore in 1887. The building ceased its beer production in the 1970s, and the building now houses a non-profit. But we preferred to imagine it as it used to be. We designed our poster showcasing the production of beer, from grain being poured in, to beer being pumped out. We designed the poster to be a cutaway of the building, showcasing the actual equipment that is used to brew beer. The poster is a 2-color print, and all black-portions are layered blue over red. Here are some of our favorite details: We're super proud of the illustration. The Beerweek folks are selling their majority of the edition at a private event, but we kept a short stack for ourselves. If you want one for your wall, they're available in our store! They're 18x24", hand-printed on French Smart White 110lb cover in 2-colors. Get them while they last!

You can find us this weekend in Asheville, NC at the first annual Ladies of Letterpress Art & Industry conference. We'll be speaking on Sunday with Asheville Bookworks, Atlanta Printmakers Studio, and our neighbors down the road Pyramid Atlantic on the topic of Community Print Shops. Come say hello, ask some questions, and maybe walk away with a print or two.

It's finally officially official, the press release went public today. The Maryland Institute College of Art will purchase the majority of Baltimore's Globe Poster collection, including type, cuts, and their printed archives. BALTIMORE—Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) announces its intent to acquire approximately 75 percent of the historic Globe Poster Company working collection of wood type, images and illustrations employed for letterpress printing. MICA will use items in the collection as academic and research resources while preserving the legacy of these historic assets. After the acquisition is complete, young artists and designers will have the opportunity to learn first-hand traditional printing practices even as they explore contemporary methods in the digital age. MICA will make a public announcement on Tuesday, March 22 at 6 p.m. in the Brown Center’s Falvey Hall, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave. Jim Sherraden of Nashville’s Hatch Show Print will follow with a lecture entitled Preservation Through Production. Jim Sherraden of Hatch Show Print will be at MICA on Tuesday, March 22, speaking at Falvey Hall at 6 PM on the topic of Preservation Through Production. The Cicero Brothers of Globe Poster will be there, and you should too! Congratulations to MICA on an amazing purchase. This will shape your Printmaking, Illustration, and Design programs for many many years to come. Much more information can be found at City Paper, the Daily Record, Baltimore Sun, Printeresting, and our earlier blabbing here. Poster above printed by the stupendous Friends of Globe - go say hello, won't you?

It's been a busy month for us at BPS. We taught our first ever screenprinting workshop, studio rental is picking up, and holy cow, it's almost MARCH! Keep a close eye here. We should have March workshops listed very shortly.