Damien Hirst uses specialty inks in his prints at The Armory Show

03/13/2012

 
Damien Hirst's prints at his London art publishing company, Other Criteria's, Armory Show booth shimmered and shined using specialty printing inks and applications.

The print at left, Death or Glory - Oriental Gold-European Gold Glorious Skull uses two slightly different tones of golf foil while the print at left, For the Love of God, uses diamond dust.

Now, if Damien Hirst jumped off a bridge I wouldn't say you should jump off after him, but he IS a global contemporary art trend-setter, so maybe you should consider incorporating some specialty processes in your prints!

Check out our Specialty Inks + Applications class running this Friday (3/16) from 7-10pm.


 

Stationery Workshop Photos!

03/12/2012

 
Check out the results of a recent Stationery Workshop... the possibilities are endless!

You could print...

- Business Cards for your thriving Ant Farm
- Handmade Postcards to keep in touch during your upcoming adventures
- Original Memo Sheets to passive-aggressively remind your roommate to take out the trash
- Thank you notes to mind your P's and Q's

...and anything else paper you can think of!
 

New Class: Japanese Woodblock Printing

03/05/2012

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Japanese Woodblock Printing... available starting in April!

This four-week woodblock class teaches the Japanese woodblock tradition. In class students will complete a 1-color woodblock print to practice their carving and printing chops, then move on to learning how to register multiple blocks and creating their own multi-color design.

All supplies are included (except paper) and you get to keep your tools for making future prints!

woodblock print by instructor KJ Martinet
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Newly Uploaded: Specialty Inks In Action

02/10/2012

 
example of Rock Base (Yellow)
Check out the newly uploaded examples of techniques taught in our Specialty Inks + Applications Class.

Note the different mood each of the various specialty inks lend the iconic Andy Warhol "Marilyn" image- really a great way to make your prints POP!
 

Congrats Rachel Pollak, our GET SERIOUS GO SOLO solo exhibition contest winner!

02/01/2012

 
Rachel Pollak, It Is Written, It Is Said (detail), gouache on paper

...the I and the We
gouache on paper pieces by Rachel Pollak
on view February 8th - March 5th

Join us for the opening reception!
Friday February 10th, 6-9pm
///RSVP on Facebook

Chosen from entries to our GET SERIOUS GO SOLO solo exhibition contest, Rachel Pollak's sensitive paintings of ritual captured us with their quiet significance and simultaneously sparse and ornate spaces.

Rachel on her work:

"In my work I am seeking out moments when an “I” becomes a “We”—and moments when these affiliations break down. My gouache paintings are inspired by rituals I observe in everyday life: crew members raking the infield dirt at the seventh-inning stretch, children playing parachute games, the inauguration of a new president. By re-imagining the context of these rituals, and their accompanying furniture, uniforms, and equipment, my works consider the tension between the persistent identities of the individuals in these scenes and the groups they are a part of."

As our GET SERIOUS GO SOLO winner, Pollak also receives a free 1 month studio pass to explore what print can bring to her work.

"The content of this work-- focused on the relationships between individuals and groups--would lend itself in an ideal way to the the print medium and its traditions of multiples, repeat patterns, and narrative series,"  Rachel says of exploring print.
 

A Very-Brooklyn Wedding Resource List

01/20/2012

 

As the Wedding Season and our amazing DIY Wedding workshop approaches, we thought we'd make planning a certified Brooklyn wedding easy for ya. Here is our list of Brooklyn Wedding vendors who exhibit the down-to-earth creativity that characterizes this great borough.

///WEDDING PLANNERS

Tammy Golson Events
www.tammygolson.com
South Slope based event planner Tammy Golson combines the Midwestern values from her childhood with years of Manhattan experience and tight relations with vendors. Detail-oriented to the max, Ms. Golson will be sure to make sure everything runs smoothly on your big day.

Indelible Times
www.indelibletimes.com
With experience as a life coach and a decade in the restaurant and hospitality industry, Sara Seber of Indelible Times has the real-life experience necessary to run large scale parties and foresee n' fix problems before they start.

Mazel Moments
www.mazelmoments.com
A great directory for those planning a Jewish wedding (and other events too).  Mazel Tov!

///RINGS

Catbird
www.catbirdnyc.com
Catbird features jewelery and trinkets made by local and independent jewelers. Check 'em out, they've got something for everyone!

///STATIONERY

Gowanus Print Lab
www.gowanusprintlab.com/diy-wedding
 Gowanus Print Lab offers DIY Wedding, a week-long workshop designed to help lovebirds create everything paper they need for their wedding! Invitations, save the date cards, place cards, thank you notes, menus, even favors – everything! No experience necessary and all supplies (other than paper) included.

///FOOD

The Farm on Adderley
www.thefarmonadderleyevents.com
The Farm on Adderley offers in-season, locally grown and organic foods. Their relationships with family farms ensure that the food they serve is loved and cared for as it is TASTY. The Farm on Adderley can cater rehearsal dinners in their lovely 110 person occupancy restaurant, or off-site anywhere in the Metro area.

///FLOWERS & DECORATION

Rose Red & Lavender
www.redroseandlavendar.com
Love the ethereal look of wildflowers? Then check out Rose Red and Lavender! This Williamsburg flower shop doesn't stop at unfussy flowers; they have air-plants, miniature plants, terrariums, tropical plants,
 organic gardening supplies, seeds, indoor gardening supplies, gifts, containers, herbs and more available to make your wedding vision come true.

Sycamore
http://sycamorebrooklyn.com/
Does the thought of planning all your wedding details get you thirsty? Then visit Sycamore, a flower shop and craft beer/whisky watering hole hybrid. Ah, only in Brooklyn.

///GIFT REGISTRY

Whisk
www.whisknyc.com
Brooklyn-based kitchen & table supplier, Whisk, has the selection of Angel Food Cake Pans, Avocado Pitter/Slicer Combos, and Apple Corers with the sleek modern look you love... and that is only the “A's”.

Cut Brooklyn
www.cutbrooklyn.com
This Gowanus neighborhood craftsmen makes luxury-quality handmade cutlery and cutlery accessories that look real sharp (har, har, har).

///OFFICIANTS

Eclectic Unions
www.eclectic-unions.com
In addition solemnizing weddings as a certified officiant, Jessie Blum of Eclectic Unions will work with you to write a personalized wedding ceremony that reflects your unique bond and offers vow writing consultations for those who have writer's block.

///PHOTOGRAPHERS

Kristina Hill Photography
www.kristinahill.com
Based in South Slope, Ms. Hill's warm, open personality will draw you in. Her artful, photojournalistic style will keep your eye close.

Love Me Do Photography
www.lovemedophotography.com
A trio of talented young photographers based in Philadelphia will travel to take unique, rockabilly-flavored photos of your wedding. They also created the cutest wedding handbook, Marriaged!. Next time your at the Print Lab take a look through it- we snagged a copy!
 

Special New Year's Resolution Studio Pass Packages

12/21/2011

 
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Creative muscles feeling flabby? Then get off your glutes and kick your creative self back into shape at the Gowanus Print Lab with our New Year's Resolution Studio Packages!

Sign up now through January 9th to score special New Year's Resolution prices on month studio passes. No commitments, no sneaky sign-up fees, no sweat! And unlike your gym membership, you'll actually use it.


Sign up for six months and get one month free!*
or
Sign up for three months and save $50!**


Check out everything a studio pass includes...


Visit or call the Print Lab at 718.788.3930 to purchase. Offer expires 1/9.


*Must purchase first and last month up front w/automatic payments for months 2-5. 7th month is free. Membership must be consecutive.
**Must purchase all three months at once. Membership is for 90 consecutive days.

 

Holiday Fun at the Print Lab!

12/01/2011

 
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The Print Lab is a great way to get geared for the holidays; print your own unique holiday cards and gifts, give the gift of INK by purchasing a loved one a class or gift card (applicable to classes, studio passes and supplies!) and keep the kiddies from getting cabin fever with our youth activities.


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_Make custom holiday cards! - Print Your Own Stationery

In this no-experience necessary class our instructor will work with you to create your own set of holiday greeting cards with printed with your design! All screen printing supplies are included (screens, a variety of inks, squeegees, ect.), but please bring your own paper.

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greeting cards by Asuka Ohsawa

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_Make handmade gifts! – T-Shirt (or Tote Bag) Printing Workshop

Give your friends and family original gifts made with love! In this no-experience necessary class our instructor will work with you to print a run of t-shirts and/or tote bags with your design. All screen printing supplies are included (screens, a variety of inks, squeegees, ect.), but bring your own tees or buy them here at the Lab. You may print as many tees/totees as class time allows.

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Discounts on Gift Cards

Give the gift of INK! Buy an $80 gift card for only $75, or a $120 gift card for just $100! Gift Card is applicable to classes, studio passes and supplies!

Other denominations available. Visit or call the Print Lab at 718.788.3930 to purchase. Discount expires 12/22.


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Keep the Winter Break Boredom at bay with a teen workshop at the Print Lab!
For ages 10 & up


12/27, 12-3pm Intro to Screen Printing for Teens
12/28, 12-3pm T-Shirt Printing Workshop for Teens
12/29, 12-3pm Totes n' Drawstring Bag Printing
                       Workshop for Teens
12/30, 12-3pm Print Your Own Skateboard for Teens

See our Youth Programs page for details!
 

SoBe Studio's Try Everything Party (& GPL's 1st Birthday Bash!)

10/04/2011

 
_Last Saturday night the Print Lab was bumpin' as we hosted the SoBe Studios Try Everything Party (& celebrated our first birthday!).

DJ J. Dayz was on the turntables while SoBe served up free SoBe Lifewater cocktails as guests drank, danced and printed the night away.

SoBe gave away free t-shirts, skateboards, posters that guests could print their choice of urban-themed designs at the SoBe "Screen Print Everything" stations.  In addition to the "Screen Print Everything" stations, the event featured a Button Making Studio where guests fished through a collection collage materials and designed n' pressed their own pop icon buttons. In the Vintage SoBe World Van guests goofed with the Try a New Look App, a program that adds a handlebar mustache, extravagant beard, crazy 'do or animated accessories to photos of you or your friends which could be shared on Facebook, Twitter or via Email.

All in all a fabulous night. Thanks again SoBe!

Check out our Facebook and Flickr pages for more event photos!
 

Your New Role Model: Queen Andrea

09/17/2011

 
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Andrea von Bujdoss, AKA "Queen Andrea" is a New York City based fine artist, illustrator, graffiti artist and graphic designer. A native New Yorker raised in the vibrant Soho neighborhood of Manhattan, Andrea has been inspired by the urban landscape from an early age. As a young adult, she befriended some of the most prolific old school graffiti writers and then earned her BFA in Graphic Design. Now Andrea works for widely known brands who appreciate both the urban creative flavor of her work and her versatile and passionate knowledge of typography, branding and visual communication.

She is one of the most skilled female graffiti artists in the country, possessing an explosively creative style inspired by the excitement of the urban landscape. Her custom lettering portfolio has grown beyond graffiti and is a comprehensive collection of letter studies and design explorations.

She has been featured in major art shows, toy shows, magazines, books, fashion lines and brand collaborations. Andrea has curated and exhibited in numerous exhibitions nationally and is currently preparing for her New York City solo show debut at Fuse Gallery in July 2012.

Andrea says of her work "the excitement, color, diversity and wild energy of city life, and especially graffiti, is where I find my creative inspiration. Renegade cutting-edge artforms and lifestyles that have sprang forth from an ever-changing urban metropolis give me the visual stimulus, guts, and urge to create and innovate. 
   
My artistic style is bolstered by themes of fame, the advertising age, the golden age of hip hop, funk music, typography, geometry, sign painter lettering, superheroes, bling, diamonds and bombastic bright color."
photos courtesy of Andrea von Bujdoss_
TOP: Andrea & her wares at Toy Street, a toy-centric trade show
BOTTOM: Andrea von Bujdoss, Quality Assurance Specialists, screen print
 
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