My new friend, Dersu Rhodes, just posted about our collaboration on his new business card. It was a pleasure to work with him and gratifying to feel that I contributed a piece to his newly started business as a graphic designer and art director.
Sometimes it can be daunting and distracting to have someone observing as you print, but with Dersu it was actually fun explaining to him what I was doing, how to set up the plate on the press, what happens when you run the press, and what to look for in a good printing.
And what a surprise to find myself anointed a hipster. It is not as if I were 30-something and up on all the latest. Thank you, Dersu.
Take a look at the images; they are some of the best I have seen of a small letterpress studio and were taken by Dersu.