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I’m not sure if all of you are familiar with Baltimore Print Studios, but it’s a letterpress/screen printing public studio run by 2 MICA grads, Kyle Van Horn and Kim Bentley. They wrote their first blog post in 2009 announcing their idea and asking for help, had their grand opening in 2010, and now they’re celebrating their 1 year anniversary this weekend. The studio is on North Ave, a couple blocks from The Charles and right near The Windup Space. The place is uber cool (and super cold in the winter) and they have semi-affordable 1-day classes to get you up to speed on letterpress and/or screen-printing techniques, and then you can rent a press at an hourly rate. They also have Mini-DIY-Magnetic-Poetry workshops, which are super fun, very affordable and kind of “beginner” (the workshops won’t substitute for a class). At the workshop, BPS has pre-made words, phrases and imagery for you to make your own holiday card (Valentines, Christmas, etc) and you letterpress them right there and then take home a pack of 30. I added a photo below from the Valentine workshop I went to. Proving how successful they’ve become in the past year, they are featured in this month’s issue of How magazine.
I’ve found that getting off the computer and doing something hands-on and creative motivates and reinvigorates me as a designer. Has anyone else been to Baltimore Print Studios? If not, where have you been that made you get hands-on and in turn got you re-exited about being creative?
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