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Good things come in 33′s

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: September 3, 2010

Check it out.

For this lovely Friday, I’m going to share one of the business cards that have come across my desk this week. This card comes to us from 33 Books and Mr. Dave Selden. If you haven’t stumbled upon the great stuff from them before, now’s your chance.

Printer: Pinball Publishing
Item: Business Cards
Paper: Chipboard 20pt. Kraft
Inks: Pantone soy-based inks
Dimensions: 3.5″ x 2″

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The Wilderness’ Wild Scout Book

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: September 2, 2010

The wild, so close.

If you’ve never heard of The Wilderness, gather round.

It all began in 2004 with two people named Gabe Imlay and Juliet Rios. They decided to start a design company specializing in motion graphics, animation, live action and blowing minds. Now it’s 2010, they’re still going strong and they’ve just made themselves a Scout Book. What next?

Item: Scout Book
Printer: Pinball Publishing
Paper: Chipboard 20pt Kraft (exterior), Quinault 70# Text White (interior)
Inks: Pantone soy-based inks
Binding: Saddle-stitch

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Polar Bears in Copenhagen

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: August 30, 2010

Aten Design Group is a web strategy, design, and development company based in Denver, Colorado. They participated in Drupalcon Copenhagen this year and made this custom notebook just for the occasion. If you happened to find yourself in Copenhagen, I hope you stopped by Aten’s booth at Drupalcon. You could have gotten a polar bear book!

Item: Scout Book three-pack w/ belly band
Printer: Pinball Publishing
Illustrator: Noah Smith
Paper: Chipboard 20pt Kraft (exterior), Quinault 70# Text White (interior)
Inks: Pantone soy-based inks
Binding: Saddle-stitch

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Southland’s 608 and Scout Books

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: August 27, 2010

So blue.

These Scout Books were created for Southland Christian Church, located in Central Kentucky. Southland holds a special worship service at 6:08 (hence the name) for College agers and 20-somethings. These books served as an invite to this year’s 608 afterparty that welcomed students back into the area after summer vay-cay. Why the Vs.? They are also incorporating a “large tournament” this year and since 608 averages over 2000 students every week I can imagine that “large” is, indeed, fairly large.

Printer: Pinball Publishing
Item: Scout Book
Paper: Chipboard 20pt Kraft
Inks: Pantone soy-based inks
Designer: Kyle Key

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Letterpress cards by Dude and Chick

By Nicole Lavelle | Published: August 26, 2010

Steppin' into letterpress in St. Paul.

Dude and Chick Letterpress is a pair of creative folks making beautiful things in St. Paul, Minnesota. Katie Wilson and John Gurtin are the brains and creative power behind Dude and Chick, and have a serious selection of vintage-inspired greeting cards and prints available in their Etsy shop.

Item name: Greeting Cards
Dimensions: A2, 4.25 x 5.5 inches
Method of printing: Letterpress
Press: Heidelberg Windmill
Designer/Printer: Dude and Chick (John Gurtin and Katie Wilson)
Ink used: Van Son soy and rubber
Paper: Mohawk Superfine
Available online in Dude and Chick’s Etsy shop

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Three-pack of Custom Scout Books

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: August 25, 2010

Three-pack of awesome.

You may not realize it yet, but that belly band holds a world of wonders. The Industrial Design Society of America went all out with a three-pack of custom interior Scout Books, complete with a pull out section!  They were created by Ziba for an IDSA “cross-craft” discussion about DIY design held right here in Portland, Oregon. The three-pack consists of one part sweet Portland city guide, one part informative conference/symposium particulars, and one part handy, blank sketchbook. I highly suggest you check out the other photos of this gem right after the jump!

Item: Scout Book three-pack w/ belly band
Printer: Pinball Publishing
Design: Ziba
Paper: Chipboard 20pt Kraft (exterior), Quinault 70# Text White (interior)
Inks: Pantone soy-based inks
Binding: Saddle-stitch
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Diagrams on Scout Books

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: August 23, 2010

Brain-y brains and typewriters.

Girls Can Tell is a small screen printing shop in Philadelphia. Their Etsy shop is chock-full of useful items, including these Scout Books illustrated with informative and beautiful diagrams by Sara Selepouchin. I think my favorite is the brain. I like that idea–perfect for a pocket notebook! I only wish I could write directly into my brain. The quest for more memory continues.

Printer: Pinball Publishing
Item: Scout Book
Paper: Chipboard 20pt Kraft
Inks: Pantone soy-based black
Illustrator: Sara Selepouchin

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Wishbone Business Cards

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: August 20, 2010

"I wish I had a million dollars..."

Wishbone is a store located in San Francisco with loads and loads of goodies to spend your money on! They have been around since 1995 and if you don’t think that’s impressive, do the math, folks! I really need to get it into my head that the 90′s are older than they feel. Not only has this store been doin’ its thang for 15 years, it’s about to relaunch its website. Very exciting!

Printer: Pinball Publishing
Item: Business Cards
Paper: Environment 120# White Cover
Inks: Pantone soy-based

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Tim Hensley’s Black Light Print

By Aidan Koch | Published: August 19, 2010

A few months ago, I saw Daniel Clowes speak at Powell’s Books here in Portland, and he proclaimed that the best comic he had read recently was Tim Hensley’s Wally Gropius. I’d seen parts of Hensley’s Gropius in Fantagraphic’s quarterly MOME anthology, and have definitely been wanting more. Today I ran into this awesome Hensley print on the FAMILY blog and it is too good. His classic American style and bright exaggerated coloring lends itself perfectly to the graphic nature of silkscreen prints, black light to boot!

Title: I–I Can’t!
Item: Blacklight screenprinted poster (with flocking)
Artist: Tim Hensley
Printer: PictureBox Inc.
Available: $50 online

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Then and Now: T-Rex Scout Books

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: August 18, 2010

Skin and bones.

Printer: Pinball Publishing
Item: Scout Book
Paper: Chipboard 20pt Kraft
Inks: Pantone soy-based inks
Illustrator: Reid Psaltis

I love T-Rex and I love flipping these books back and forth to see the dinosaur turn into a skeleton. These books were illustrated by comic book artist and oil painter, Reid Psaltis. He’s a former graduate of Western Washington University’s Fine Art program and currently lives and works in Portland, OR.

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