Holidays + January 2025 Newsletter
A glimpse at the Museum Store
The gift of gratitude
At the end of the year, our thoughts turn toward our gratitude for all the good things that have come our way. We make time to be with the folks we love, to eat with them, to laugh with them, to share our traditions and do new things that will maybe become traditions in their own right later on. It’s not so uncommon to thank the folks we love for their place in our life with a gift, and whether you’re a holiday-person or not, this is typically when all that gratitude-in-the-form-of-gifting reaches a fever pitch around here.
There’s no way to put a bow on all the care and love that we have for you and all the folks we love who form the bedrock of our lives. Thank you. We couldn’t be more grateful. We give you everything we’ve got every day, and we know you do the same. And just like so many of the rest of you, we have a few heartfelt gifts to give to our moms and partners and friends that we hope will offer them a small glimpse of all that impossible-to-summarize love and gratitude which we typically close the year with.
If you, like us, are still trying to figure out a few last minute thoughtful gifts, then we’re happy be able to offer some small amount of help in the great American small business tradition of emailing you a holiday shopping guide in December. We hope you’ll find something heartfelt, fun or exciting here to help you close out your year. If you need us, we’re here for you, and if we don’t see you? We are wishing you the very best in 2025.
HOLIDAY HOURS:
Our museum is a part of an active studio environment. Drop-in visitors are welcome, but we do recommend calling or emailing to make an appointment before your visit if you’d like to come by for a tour, to learn about the studio, or to get started on a new project. In those cases, please call or email the studio to make an appointment. Planning your visit will allow us to give you our full attention while you’re here.
SPECIAL HOURS
TODAY, MONDAY DEC 23: Open until 7PM (we are usually closed on Mondays)
We will be closed on the following dates:
Dec. 24-25 (Christmas)
Dec. 31-Jan 1 (New Years)
Usual Hours:
Tues - Fri: 11am - 7pm
Sat - Sun: By Appointment
FOR THE LIFELONG LEARNERS:
The gift of a workshop is perfect for so many situations!
If you’re gifted a workshop, it’s a gift you can definitely actually use. You’ll make something cool that you can enjoy for a long time, and the things you learn, you’ll only have to store in your mind! Give a workshop to someone who’d love to do something with their hands, or if they’re more of a quality-time-person than a gifts-person, sign up for two spots in the workshop and take it with them!
Want to set up a custom small workshop a time that works for you?
Two seats in a workshop aren’t always enough, if your loved ones are more artsy/craftsy! Give a group gift: set up a private workshop that you can all take together. We have five ready-to-go Private Instruction courses listed on our website. Letterpress, marbling, and all kinds of other things are also super easy to arrange. If you want to set up a workshop not represented in our ready-to-go options, you can review some of the options and inquire here.
FOR THE ARTIST WHO’S READY TO WORK:
Dying to get in here to print/bind/make paper? Put a membership on your wish list!
Folks who are local and want flexible studio access, discounts on workshops, invites to members-only events, studio slots, and opportunities are great contenders for studio membership! Membership is the most economical way to use the studio if you know your goals go beyond a workshop here and there, or a one-off project.
If you’ve got any questions, you can compare our different membership levels here, and if you still have questions, shoot Brooke an email at brooke@isprojectsfl.com and she’ll be happy to help you out.
STATIONERY + GIFTS YOU CAN WRAP
Need a cute card? Great paper to make a cute card yourself? We got you. Books, prints, or zines to give to the collector in your life? We have a bunch. How about the inks, knives, bone folders, awls, threads, and other tools one might need to make books and prints at home? There’s nowhere better for you to stop in. Stop in to shop and we can show you what we’ve got. We’d be happy to set up a custom print or book starter kit for the creative person you’re shopping for. There’s way more stuff to see in-person in the Museum Store than you will find listed on the website. Drop in during our business hours to poke around!
Set of all four Junk Food Valentine's cards
Buy three get one free!
Letterpress printed two layer linoleum print
Handset 30pt Bernhard Gothic Italic saying "Let me be your ketchup." on the inside
Paper: 110# Crane Lettra
Dimensions: 5.5" x 4"
Includes Envelopes
Let your honey know you care with food puns!
Also available individually
This is the sixth edition of our monthly type specimen poster project!
Clarendon is a common metal and digital font. It was designed by Robert Besley for The Fann Street Foundry, also known as Thurowgood and Besley, in 1845 in England. The original metal letters were cut by Benjamin Fox. This was one of the first fonts to be registered and was named for the Clarendon Press at Oxford University.
The wood font has nebulous origins, Rob Roy Kelly claims that it evolved from Antique and Ionic fonts with the key difference of having bracketed serifs. The first showing of the font is credited to L. Johnson & Company in 1847 but the first specimen is found in the 1853 catalog by Bill, Stark, & Company.
Clarendon has remained a popular font throughout its history and saw a massive surge of popularity in the 1970's gracing numerous record covers and show posters. You might recognize it from the Sony logo, older National Parks informational signs, and the Wells Fargo Logo.
This poster is the shortest pangram in the series to date that I have written myself. You'll notice, if you look closely, that there is a letter missing. Unfortunately, this drawer of type was missing that letter and all of it's punctuation. You never know what you are going to get when uncovering a collection of this magnitude and sadly not all of the typefaces in the collection are complete. However, I thought that the size and excellent condition of this type, as well as it's historical significance, warranted a place in the poster series.
Each poster in this series will consist of a pangram, a sentence that contains all the letters in the alphabet, showing off a different typeface from the Jon Selikoff Collection here at IS Projects.
5% of all proceeds from this projects will go to the Greater New York Chapter of the ALS Association in Jon’s memory to raise awareness and fund research for a cure!
Printed in August 2018
Set of 8 paper coasters
Letterpress Printed
3.5" round
Moon Phase Guide printed on the reverse
