We are seeking an outstanding guy or gal to work with us this summer in our studio. If this interests you, here’s what we have to offer:

-Internship from approximately mid May – mid/late August (specific dates are not set). Roughly 15 weeks total.
-150-200 hours total working time (10-15 hours/week.)
-A regular schedule with occasionally flexible hours. We have weird work weeks sometimes.
-Unpaid, sorry, but we do offer 2 weeks of studio access at the end of the internship as a thank you.

Intern tasks will be varied, and could include: sorting type, reclaiming screens, proofing fonts, cleaning, packing posters, assisting with print runs, and helping with shop organization. A good understanding of either letterpress or screenprinting (or both!) is recommended, but not absolutely necessary.

After a summer working with us, you will have first hand experience assisting in a public-access print studio, hands-on experience in typesetting, all aspects of letterpress and screenprinting, and helping with the occasional commercial printing job.

Think you have what it takes? Email your resume, cover letter, and list of references to print@baltimoreprintstudios.com. Applications are due by Monday, April 29th. Please use Summer Internship 2013 as your email subject line.

We look forward to hearing from you!
-BPS

Image above from shorpy.com.

Our Strategic Plan posters are coming back! The last edition of them sold out last summer, and we finally have a chance to reprint them. We will be reprinting these this month, and will have them listed in the shop by April.

As always, our posters are printed by hand, and the Strategic Plan is always printed from antique type. We print every edition of these posters in new type and new colors, so each series is unique. Please check our online shop for availability, or join our email list and be the first to know when they’re back in stock.

We are seeking a couple of outstanding guys or gals to work with us this spring in the studio. If this interests you, here’s what we have to offer:

-Internship from approximately mid January – mid May (specific dates are not set). Roughly 18 weeks total.
-150-200 hours total working time (10-15 hours/week.)
-A regular schedule with occasionally flexible hours. We have weird work weeks sometimes.
-Unpaid. Sorry.

Intern tasks will be varied, and could include: sorting type, reclaiming screens, proofing fonts, cleaning, packing posters, assisting with print runs, and helping with shop organization.

After a semester working with us, you will have first hand experience assisting in a public-access print studio, hands-on experience in typesetting, all aspects of letterpress and screenprinting, and helping with the occasional commercial printing job.

Think you have what it takes? Email your Resume, Cover Letter, and list of references to print@baltimoreprintstudios.com. Applications are due by Monday, January 14th.

We look forward to hearing from you!
-BPS

Image above from shorpy.com.

Hey Baltimoreans, we hope to see you at Holiday Heap this Saturday! We’re excited to be participating in our first major craft show and we’ve been busy in the studio making new prints and products specifically for the holidays (letterpress printed wrapping paper, anyone?). We’ve also got a handy letterpress printed flip calendar, coasters, and some new prints, perfect for gift-giving. Can’t wait to see you there!

HOLIDAY HEAP
Saturday, Dec 1
10AM–5PM
2640 St Paul St, St John’s Church

Now operating as a working museum, the collection is being forced to move from the same building used to manufacture type since 1927. The cost for moving the equipment and collection (the largest collection of wood type in the world at 1.5M pieces!!) is steep. To make matters worse, they’ve been asked to move as soon as February.

If you’re a supporter of type or printing, or if you simply love design, please consider donating to the museum. Every sale, membership, and donation will only help.

More information is available on their website.

Consider simply purchasing a print or shirt, or becoming a member, or just flat-out donating to their cause. This is a part of printing and design history that we cannot let die.

A similar post to this is also available on our tumblr. Please reblog, retweet, repost, copy/paste – whatever you think is necessary. Help get the word out!

Photos above are from our 2011 trip to HWT.

After months (genuinely) of designs and re-designs, and an incredibly patient web developer, we are very excited to show you the new BPS.com! We’re still working through kinks and bugs here and there, but basically we’re at 100%. A few things have moved around. The online store has jumped over to shop.baltimoreprintstudios.com (still being updated), and all our studio press rental reservations are now at reservations.baltimoreprintstudios.com.

Thanks so very much Wellmade Design! We love it.

This month marks our 2nd anniversary here at Baltimore Print Studios and we’re having an open house! Friday, October 26th, we’re inviting friends old and new to come see the shop. And if you haven’t been in a while, we have a LOT to show you!

This summer, the print shop expanded in two directions, both north and west, and it has opened up exciting new possibilities for the studio. These past few months (especially weeks) we’ve been pushing hard to make the space ready to use and show off, and we can’t wait to show you as well. Everyone is welcome. We’ll have printing demonstrations, hand-printed work for sale, and food and drink. We hope to see you! Location: 18 W. North Avenue, between Maryland and Charles Street. 

Friday, Oct. 26th is also Final Fridays in Station North, and there are openings and events all over the neighborhood. Please come down for the evening and stop in with us. We’ll be hopping from 6-9PM, or until the drinks run out.

This Sunday we are hanging our shingle and selling our wares at the Abell Community Street Fair. Come find us Sunday, Sept. 24th from Noon to 5 PM in the 3100 block of Abell St (one block west of the Waverly Farmers Market).

Come see our new prints, shirts, and totes in person!

See you Sunday!

Wow – four years have come-and-gone, and it’s election season again! This is a big one, and we’re pretty passionate about it. We have our opinions on who should win, you have opinions too. That’s what makes America great, and that’s why we’re proud to live here. Being able to live and vote in a free democratic society RULES, and we want to encourage everyone to exercise their right.

Our PLEASE VOTE and PLEASE F*CKING VOTE shirts and totes are fresh off the presses and ready to ship. This first round of shirts come in Men’s & Women’s medium and large, printed white on heather-black. The VOTE TOTES are printed in black ink on natural canvas. Suitable for holding groceries, library books, homework, fresh veggies from the farmer’s market or small, non-partisan pets.

Wear or carry yours every day until the election, and then every day after, making your statement in black-and-white. We’re certain you’ll love them both.

Shipping only to the US-of-A until the election.

Available in the store.