Vintage

 

First of all, thanks a lot for the support and orders of the ebooks. I will start to work on the 3td issue of THREE soon as it should cover july to september posts.

 

After been in contact with Piers Faccini via twitter, I found El Calotipo via instagram. When I saw the pictures of their work, I feel their passion for printing, paper and, more important, details ! I was looking for a new partener for the 2014 letterpress calendar, so I contact them. They are in Zaragoza, Spain, and as I am in the south of France, it is not so far and organize a trip there. I have Spanish blood in my veins, my great-grandparents are Spanish and I often went as a kid. And just for the Iberico ham, it's worth the trip! The most impressive is their lead in terms of "gluten-free" : pizza, sandwiches, special dishes in restaurants, big "gluten free" sign on products... a dream !

El Calotipo are Carla and Nelson, and their studio is located in San Pablo neighborhood of the city :  the place that has witnessed the evolution of the craftsmen in their workshops since the fifteenth century, we aim to give impetus to this area of the city and recover some old crafts and new technologies works taking as a starting point the following: manual printing generates some qualities which are very interesting in graphic design.

 

Still unpacking, and founding some treasure I have in boxes ;) Today I put my hands on these 78 RPM records coming from my grand mother. 78 RPM are records from 1920 to 1950, before 33 RPM LP werre made. They are very heavy (metal plate covered with wax) and can only be played with a mecanical phonograph ! They comes in nice informative paper sleeves, and have some amazing great labels, most with nice autentification stamps !

 

No so old but at our digital age, this is records prehistory !

 

 

A lot people ask about this strange item, the "Cachet Crampon" ! I invit you to travel in time, a time where people write letters by hands and need to be sent in envelops ! This is a tool to, as it states "Making absolutely inviolable envelopes". It comes with small metal pieces that you can push with the strange tool to close your envelop... Images talk more than my words here :

 

 

 

 

 

 

The set is complete and now available in the found section on the shop.

 

After weeks of delaying it, the first FOUND products are now available. I love vintage type and objects, so I collect them over years and want to found more ! So I am seeling them and hope I can hunt again soon. Some are already sold out after the teasing I did on facebook and others, so if you want something, do not wait !

 

Want to highligh some products I really like :

 

Amazing heavy vintage Camera, coming with old tape and its leather (very damaged) sleeve

 

 

 

Bus medecine box