Art Prints by/for The Weekend Press

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CLIENT

The Week­end Press, based in Oak­land, CA, is a let­ter­press print stu­dio found­ed in mid 2013 by Jen­ny Pan and Peter Pham. Work­ing as graph­ic design­ers, they were always inspired by the irre­place­able tac­tile qual­i­ty of print. So, the two set out to build a place where they, along with oth­er cre­atives, could pro­duce beau­ti­ful work with letterpress.

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BRIEF

Col­lab­o­rate with a group of cre­atives to pro­duce a let­ter­press print­ed lim­it­ed art edition.

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APPROACH

We teamed up with ten tal­ent­ed design­ers and friends for our very first col­lab­o­ra­tion: Oak­land Illustrated—a curat­ed let­ter­press trib­ute to the city we call home. Each three-col­or print fea­tures a dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence or dis­tinct land­mark found in Oak­land, CA. The only con­straints pro­vid­ed were a pre-deter­mined size and col­or palette. The design­ers visu­al­ized their sub­ject mat­ter in their own style and had the free­dom to use col­or in cre­ative ways. This includ­ed over­print­ing and design­ing with floods of col­or. The result of this col­lab­o­ra­tion was a 10-piece print edi­tion that cel­e­brates the art of Bay Area cre­atives and the art of let­ter­press printing.