The Lovers Discourse Can Only Be Horizontal after Roland Barthes

Artist, Mindy Belloff; Poet, Deborah Landau
Ed. 80, 8″ x 10″; 2006
Letterpress printed, 2-color
“I was ruminating in a January of park
mild and bare branched
gray entourage of buildings
and the skyline how I like it
pressing up against my neck”
Price $40…

A Satyr Against Marriage


Artist, Mindy Belloff; Poet, Anonymous 1700
Ed. 100, 10″ x 8″; 2006
Letterpress printed 2-color, from original digital design; Text from an anonymous author, book entitled “A Satyr Against Marriage,” printed in London in 1700, from the collection of the New York Public Library.
“Live happy in a quiet single life, 
Hunt foxes, wolves, but shun the Marriage Strifes. 
. . . Conjur’d to one, a double helpless thing, 
By …

Quotes of Barack Obama

Artist, Mindy Belloff
Quotes of Barack Obama from the 2008 Campaign and Inauguration Speech of 2009
Ed. 50, 6 x 4.75″; 8-page, 2009
Hand set & letterpress printed on Mohawk papers with Bugra wrappers.
“You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.”
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you …

The Blue Ridge: Seven Meditations

Artist, Mindy Belloff
Edition 5, 19″ x 14″; c. 1998/9
Seven monoprints on handmade paper housed in cobalt blue clam shell portfolio; Title page letterpress printed.
The Blue Ridge: Seven Meditations is a book of monoprints created in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. They reflect the country and record seven days of emotional states, as the Artist shed the stresses of the City and merged with the ebbs and …

Letterpress FUNdamentals! DIY

We had a great time learning letterpress printing in one day!  Everyone hand set type and learned to print on our vintage Uni III.  With Mindy’s guidance everyone printed a nice set of notecards + their favorite quote, AND a lovely class broadside edition…

Declaration Presentation at Colonial Williamsburg + Weddings…

We had a fabulous time at CW last weekend!  It was great pulling a print on the hand press and everyone who attended the presentation on the making of the Goddard Declaration of Independence was wonderful and supportive of this awesome project!  See www.IntimaPress.com for more info.

The short break from letterpress printing of wedding invites and save the date cards is over, and we are feverishly getting beautiful custom …

The Making of Mary Goddard’s Declaration of Independence Reprint 1777 & 2009

Mindy Belloff will be speaking at Colonial Williamsburg this Saturday, March 5 at 1:30 pm at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum for Women’s History Month.  If you happen to be in the Virginia area, please stop by and say Hello!  The limited edition Declaration print will be for sale at the CWF Gift Shop.

Mindy Belloff Lecture

This week at Studio on the Square, NYC

DIY Letterpress!!  Learn the 15th century art of letterpress in an intimate Studio atelier. . .

We had great new letterpress workshops, with everyone creating fabulous note cards and editioned broadsides!

Our next Letterpress FUNdamentals workshop is coming up on Saturday, March 26th and Intro to Letterpress new session meets on Wednesday evening, March 9.  Please view more details at www.StudioOnTheSq.com

Letterpress Printing of Baby Announcements & Intro Class

At the Studio this past week we had our Introduction to Letterpress class with everyone setting type and creating bookmarks with their special quotes:

and  Michelle printed Baby Announcements for her new little angel.  We used a soft tan ink for the border and a soft lavender for the text.  They look lovely!


Bookbinding + Polymer Printing

Also this week, Gavin came by to print on leather for his fabulous books.  Hopefully, he’ll come teach this Spring!

And, we had a great session on understanding polymer plates and press set up with Jesse.  Mindy helped her print the covers for  books she is binding for a client.  Jesse learned the importance of creating a mock up and got comfortable printing large sheets on the Uni III.

Happy …