BGL Invitation on Under Consideration's FPO website

An invitation designed and printed by Gilah Press + Design was posted on Under Consideration's well-known For Print Only website last Friday. The invitation was created for a local law firm's 25th anniversary party. Check out more details and photos here. Thanks for the coverage, guys!

photo from the FPO website

ready set fly: deadline extension

Procrastinators, rejoice! If you haven’t yet submitted your artwork to the Ready Set print contest, you’re in luck. We’ve extended the deadline to Tuesday, June 1, so make that great idea of yours a reality and send it on over! Refresh your memory and read over the guidelines to make sure everything checks out before submitting. Once you’re ready, go ahead and upload your file to us.

Good luck, and we’ll be looking forward to your work!

metropolismag.com coverage

can't believe we never posted about this! metropolismag.com did an amazing write up about gilah press + design right before the new year rolled around. yeah, we're that late with this. thank you so much, elizabeth. read it here!

photo taken by elizabeth dickinson

Reay Set Fly deadline extended

It’s not quite over yet! Keep working hard on your Ready Set Fly designs, because we’ve extended the deadline.



After you’ve read the guidelines, upload your file here or email info@gilahpress.com. Hope to see your finished file in our inbox soon!

felt and wire shop grand opening

ladies and gentlemen,

we are proud to announce the grand opening of our shop on feltandwireshop.com! now you can purchase as many (or as few!) cards as you'd like, whether you need that one special card for your significant other, or you're stocking up on paper goods for the whole year. be sure to check the shop regularly as we'll be adding new cards and updating our current collections as often as possible.

visit us at http://gilahpress.feltandwireshop.com and shop away!

ready, set, fly has launched!

READY SET is a limited edition collection of prints that will be designed by you and letterpress printed by us! Of all submissions received, only ten artworks will be selected for inclusion in the finished limited edition boxed set. Entries will be judged for concept, design, illustration and typography.

1. Send us a digital file of your submission (low-res, under 1 MB, JPG/GIF). You can either email it to info@gilahpress.com or use the upload form at gilahpress.com/readyset. Please be sure to include your name, email address, phone number, the title of your piece, a short artist’s statement (100 words max) and the Pantone color codes of your selected spot colors.

2. Once the jury has sorted through the submissions, each of the chosen artists will be contacted for a final AI/EPS file of their artwork. We will letterpress the artwork, produce an edition of 110 and each of the winning artists will receive their own boxed set of prints.

THEME:
fly (open to your interpretation)

GUIDELINES:
• Artwork cannot exceed 9” x 7” (paper size will be 10” x 8”)
• Must be horizontal in orientation
• Only two spot colors may be used

DEADLINE:
February 12, 2010

happy new year!

happy new year's eve, everyone! thank you to everyone who helped make 2009 such a great year for us. see you in 2010!

(photo taken by the bartender at woodberry kitchen where we have our annual happy hour to celebrate the year)

BINGE was awesome

this year's BINGE was bigger, better, and even more successful than last year's! we had almost twenty vendors join us, so we decided to split the event between our studio and spur design's studio next door. below are just a few of the vendors that were present at BINGE:

us, of course:


almanac bindery:


erin fitzpatrick (on the left) and tv vida:


motobus:


lauren silberman's papercuts:


spur design:


in addition to all of the great stuff our vendors were offering, whitney took a break from her almanac bindery table and gave a letterpress demonstration to all of our interested guests:


there was no shortage of wine, drinks or snacks for our vendors and guests, either. here's adam manning bar:


and we couldn't resist cutting into a gigantic apple covered in candy to serve to our vendors. this picture does no justice to the size of this thing. isn't it the craziest--yet yummiest--thing you've ever seen?

holiday party 2009

last friday was the annual gilah press + design holiday party. and, like last year, soup's on did a fantastic job catering the event. the food, drinks, and laughs were aplenty and a fun time was had by all.





after the dinner most of us headed over to kat's house where we kept the party going by nibbling on decadent desserts and indulging in a few more drinks. we even invited a few extra friends over to join in on the fun. several games of bananagrams were played late into the night, and adam, kat's husband, would not stop dominating. he was crazy!



kat got everyone a pantone mug as a party favor, but since a few were left behind we decided to make them at home in our studio. aren't they lookin' beautiful in our dish rack?



yay for the holidays!

thank you!

happy thanksgiving eve, everyone! with the holidays being just around the corner, gilah has been super busy letterpress printing, diecutting, and getting down and dirty with some delicate handwork...not to mention all of the "normal" graphic design jobs that need to get done on top of all that! none of it would be possible without the help of all of the interns and printers that have recently come through the doors of gilah to help us gals out, so we want to give a great big "THANKS!" to...

ally



birthplace: boston, ma
college: maryland institute college of art
what you could be found doing on a friday night: swing dancing!
if you were a font, you would be: museo

lauren



birthplace: boston, ma
college: maryland institute college of art
what you could be found doing on a friday night: beers with peers
if you were a font, you would be: gotham

chris



birthplace: bel air, md
college: towson university, maryland institute college of art
what you could be found doing on a friday night: watching a movie in an apartment or at a show
if you were a font, you would be: univers

jayce



birthplace: damascus, md
college: stevenson university
what you could be found doing on a friday night: working at grand cru or seeing live music and lovin' life
if you were a font, you would be: garamond. old style for life

ahnhee



birthplace: south korea
college: university of delaware
what you could be found doing on a friday night: cooking dinner and watching a movie
if you were a font, you would be: eurostile