For some collaborations, I think I can just combine our projects, plan a print that serves 2 purposes. Often it takes more work than just designing them separately!

For this, I designed the cover for an edition of Tilted House Review in New Orleans. I had taught Cameron letterpress back at Baskerville Studios years before. He took that sliver of knowledge and created this imprint and journal. I offered to print a cover for him, to help with some of the labor. Did I mention he hand binds them?

I was thinking about the term “saudade” a Portuguese word a friend shared with me that loosely means something that brings both joy and sadness. It was described to me as alternating teacups. I suppose it is like “bittersweet.”

Printed with polymer plates and linocut on my Heidelberg Windmill on paper from French Paper Co.

If you want a card like this mailed to you every month, you can subscribe to Keep Writing here.