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JK Keller

  • born 1976
    lives & works in New York, NY
    with Keetra Dean Dixon
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Letterpress Business Cards & Postcards

Letterpress Business Cards
These are from last summer’s visit with Kiyo & Ulli in Germany. They are setting up a letterpress shop in Dusseldorf, and graciously printed these for me while I was there. In order to get the thickness of paper I wanted, I had to glue two sheets together. Fun!

The designs are all based off of Japanese spam that I have received in the past.

Letterpress Postcard

Letterpress Postcard

  • Added: 2007 Mar 11 @ 00:49
  • Updated: 2008 May 14 @ 21:29
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17 Responses to “Letterpress Business Cards & Postcards”

  • On March 16th, 2007 at 01:01, Kevin said:
    Reply to Kevin

    Cool, do you actually use this as a business card? I am trying to find your work address in there ;)

    • On March 18th, 2007 at 13:10, JK said:
      Reply to JK

      Seeing as how I’ve moved about 20 times in the past 12 years, I can’t really put a permanent address on such a card. Better for people to call and/or e-mail (which I don’t want to publicly display online).

      Once I get a studio space to work in, I’ll put an address somewhere.

  • On June 10th, 2007 at 19:21, Lisa said:
    Reply to Lisa

    I wanted to post on the box bots, but could not find such a place…
    All I am asking is…Where do baby boxbots come from?

    • On November 13th, 2007 at 03:22, JK said:
      Reply to JK

      When a mother BoxBot and a father BoxBot love each other very much, they exchange UPC symbols. Later that night, they get recycled together. A baby BoxBot is created 12 hours later.

  • On November 8th, 2007 at 23:41, cheri hoffman said:
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    I’d like to order plain letterpress business cards made on hand made white stock in steel gray simple typeface that would say:

    Cheri Hoffman

    (111)111.1111 [edited]

    email@email.com [edited]

    Is this something you could and would do?

    Many thanks,
    CH

    • On November 13th, 2007 at 13:10, JK said:
      Reply to JK

      I do not do letterpress myself. I thought I had explained in the description that I had a friend in Germany letterpress these for me. Feel free to consult with him about design and printing estimates. He does an amazing job.

      I have edited your contact information from the comment, but am very surprised that you would broadcast it so.

  • On December 1st, 2007 at 17:42, LKS said:
    Reply to LKS

    I love these.
    Has an abstract/accidental typography look.
    Do you sell or would you like to exchange some (I take & print photos)
    http://www.fotolog.com/acme
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/acme01

    • On January 21st, 2008 at 11:33, JK said:
      Reply to JK

      I don’t sell the postcards as they’re still for personal use only.

  • On March 15th, 2008 at 13:38, Jerry said:
    Reply to Jerry

    Hi JK,

    These look fabulous. You can see the spam mail/email ascii art origin, but you totally turned it into your own. Love the Princess Peach shirt too!

    Jerry

  • On October 1st, 2008 at 20:10, Ralph said:
    Reply to Ralph

    Those symbols look like codes to me. May I make an attempt to decipher them for you? If it is just randomness, then it is spam.

    • On October 5th, 2008 at 12:37, JK said:
      Reply to JK

      Knock yourself out. If you figure it out, maybe you and Nicholas Cage could alert me to the end of days.

  • On October 16th, 2008 at 01:18, Josh said:
    Reply to Josh

    Excellent stuff person I don’t know well at all. Can’t even remember how i got here today, but i’m amazed at the random number of odd requests you get through your comments. Is this quite common?

    • On October 18th, 2008 at 11:45, JK said:
      Reply to JK

      It’s as common as the number of odd requests I get through my comments.

  • On November 25th, 2008 at 18:42, sarahelizabeth said:
    Reply to sarahelizabeth

    stunning! love!

  • On December 31st, 2008 at 22:53, Abel said:
    Reply to Abel

    Donkey tie twig marzipan. Horticulture demiurge furry slanted? Yakmia.

    • On January 3rd, 2009 at 15:47, JK said:
      Reply to JK

      Wigglesworth.

  • On March 13th, 2009 at 17:43, Liz said:
    Reply to Liz

    absolutely fantastic.
    Love the fact that you take the time to actually reply to the comments left on your site and the fact that most of them are hilarious.
    thanks for the beautiful work you do, it’s very inspiring!!

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