she's here!

We welcomed a new addition to the Ink+Smog Editions team, our daughter was born at the beginning of June and we couldn't be more in love!

We've been easing back in slowly, first at Renegade Los Angeles at Grand Park in July and then at Unique LA in August.

We've had a great response to some of our new note cards and Greetings from... cards and after taking  the better part of the summer off to adjust to life with bébé, we're starting to get back into the swing of things in the studio so expect some new additions in the coming months.

In the meantime, enjoy the last waning days of summer and have a very happy fall!

Best,
Rosemary+Robin

thank you!

Thank you to everyone who came by to say hi at Renegade this weekend! We really appreciate all of your support, especially considering how hot and humid it was. We had a great time catching up with old friends and meeting lots of new ones! 

L-R: Our new booth display, Renegade set up in Grand Park under the watchful eye of City Hall, some of the lovely customers we had this weekend.

We were so happy to be able to share the relaunch of our older designs with so many familiar faces. We are really pleased with the way that everything is coming along on the new press, not only is the production easier, but the prints are clearer and more even.

L-R: Our newest batch of prints and a new letterpress heart card, our Golden State cards printed on the new press, proofing and packing our Greetings from Los Angeles cards.

We were also really excited to debut our new show display. Our concrete and plywood half-wall got so many compliments and requests for instructions, you can take a look at this project on our Pinterest board to see how it's done.

L-R: Robin manning the booth on Sunday, our new concrete and plywood display, some customers perusing our paper goods.

All in all, it was  a great weekend! The new venue was gorgeous and it was really fun to spend the weekend under the gaze of city hall and the LA Times building. Grand Park is such a wonderful addition to this city, and we really hope to attend more events there in the future!

L-R: Rosemary with Christine from Abacus Row, strategizing for Unique over coffee the morning after Renegade.

In the meantime, we are back in the studio working on a number of different projects in preparation for Unique LA on August 9-10. We're adapting our neighborhood postcards to the new press and working on a few new projects as well. Keep an eye on our Instagram account for a few sneak peeks over the next few weeks!

We hope you're having a great summer so far, it's hard to believe that it's nearly over!

Best,
Rosemary+Robin

where to find us this summer

If you're going to be in LA this summer, come say hi! We'd love to see you!

Renegade LA: July 26+27 (11am-6pm) Grand Park, 200 N. Grand Park Ave., DTLA (booth 47)

Unique LA: August 9+10 (11am-6pm) California Market Center, 110 E. 9th Street, DTLA

We're hard at work on the new press and can't wait to show you some of what we've been up to! Hope to see you in a few weeks!

Best,

Rosemary+Robin

thank you!

UniqueLA and Renegade were great shows, thank you to everyone who came by and said hi over the past two weekends. It was great catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. It was especially fun to meet some of our Instagram followers and blog readers in person! 

our booth setup at Unique LA at the Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Airport

We had such a great time at both shows, we're already looking forward to the winter shows in December (PS. we're hard at work on our Winter edition cards, they should be in production soon so stay tuned to Instagram for some sneak peeks!).

our booth setup at Renegade at Los Angeles State Historic Park

We didn't have much of a chance to wander the aisles at either show, but we were paired with Abacus Row, a great booth partner at Unique, and totally fell in love with her delicate jewelry. Rosemary picked up a California Love ring from Honey My Heart and finally picked out a freeway from L.Makai's Commuter Collection, she's been coveting one of these since the UniqueLA spring show. We also chose some amazing prints from Krank Press and Power and Light Press, we can't wait to get them up on the wall!

L-R: Abacus Row at Unique, California Love ring from Honey My Heart, the 110 Freeway from L.Makai's Commuter Collection, bird print from Krank Press and California state print from Power and Light Press.

It was really hot both weekends, but this past weekend was especially hot and humid, it even rained a bit (a rarity for Southern California!). We couldn't have gotten through it all without the amazing popsicles from Front Porch Pops, we have to admit we tried a few of their flavors, but loved their roasted peach popsicles the best!

cooling down with Front Porch Pops popsicles, they were soooooo good!

We're taking a few days off to relax, take care of life things and work on some big projects that we have coming up soon, then we'll be back at work so that we can replenish the things that sold out in time for Eastside Handmade at Shopclass on York in Highland Park August 10 from 3-10pm as part of NELA art walk. If you have a chance, stop by and say hi, it's such a great collection of makers and sellers, we're so happy to take part again!

We hope you're enjoying your summer so far!

See you soon,

Rosemary+Robin

a lot going on

We're working really hard, getting ready for Unique LA this weekend, Renegade next weekend and then Eastside Handmade at the beginning of August. 

Some of our new cards launching at Unique and Renegade, our new neon cards and the new versions of our freeway cards without borders.

We have a number of new designs launching as well as the debut of our line of prints, both framed and unframed. We're also taking the opportunity to officially re-launch a few of our favorite designs. The freeway cards have gotten a bit of a makeover and we're bringing back our neon sign cards in black and white and in neon! We'll be listing everything in the shop shortly after Renegade.

L-R: our new letterpress summer cards and our new packaging, the aftermath of our card folding party, stamping paper bags for Unique and Renegade (we LOVE our new logo stamp!!!)

Our friend Robert Turek has also been working on a new display for us, we are so incredibly excited to see it for the first time tomorrow and to make use of it this weekend at Unique. (Here's a quick picture he sent us late last night!)

We're also working on a few longer term projects that we're incredibly excited about. We can't wait to tell you about them, so stay tuned! (A great way to do that is to join our email mailing list here).

L-R: Our stock for the shows, we're not done yet but we're getting there!, our pretty ice cream letterpress block while printing our strawberry cards, Robin taking a quick nap while printing.

There's definitely a lot going on these days, it's a little overwhelming sometimes, and we can't wait to start getting a little more sleep. But it's also really exciting (ok, we know, we've said that a lot in this post, we promise to be more eloquent once we've made it through the crazy!)

L-R: Our Hello Summer! letterpress cards and working on our Norm's Santa Monica block, one of our new line of prints that come both framed and un-framed.

Hope you're all having a great summer! It's actually raining here in L.A., the first summer rain we've seen since we moved here. It's really strange!

That's all for now, 

Rosemary+Robin

stop by and say hi!

This weekend we went to the vendor meetup for UniqueLA's summer show. We thought that was the perfect excuse to remind the world that we're working on some new items to launch at UniqueLA on July 13+14 and Renegade the week after. Why not stop by and say hi, we'll be at booth #308 at Unique and booth #80 at Renegade!

currently in production

Rosemary's side of our shared work table.

We've been very busy over the past few weeks. We finished working on a custom order, we've had some houseguests and taken a few mini roadtrips. We've also been hard at work in the studio. 

L-R: new blocks in production, carving two of our Highland Park postcards, Highland Park and Silverlake postcards in production.

We've reworked a few old favorites, most notably our neon sign greeting cards. We'll be relaunching them soon! 

L-R: Robin carving out a reworked version of our Los Altos greeting card, Felix Chevrolet, proofing our newest blocks

We've also been working on a bunch of new designs, so we'll be coming out with new neighborhood postcards for Santa Monica, Culver City, Silverlake and Highland Park over the next few weeks! We'll also be launching two new sets of note cards, Some City Birds and Some More City Birds!

L-R: Some More City Birds note card blocks, Sun-Lake Drugs Silverlake postcard block, Some City Birds note card designs

We also found out that we were accepted to participate in this summer's Renegade craft fair at Los Angeles State Historic Park on July 20+21, hope to see you there!

We've been posting a lot of photos of our urban explorations and of our work process on Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter, why not follow us there too!
Rosemary+Robin