Guest Contributor Post by Heather Smith Jones of Blue Sparrow Press.
Hello and welcome to another installment of Sharing the Process! Today we hear from Amber of a. favorite design. She talks about her love of typography, her creative history and meticulous process. Plus we get peeks inside her totally great letterpress studio. You can almost smell the ink and paper! Thank you Amber for taking time to talk with us about your work and process!
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I’ve been playing with paper since I can remember. In fact, one of my most favorite holiday traditions as a child was visiting grandma and grandpa’s on Christmas Eve and opening my annual gift of construction paper and markers. I would retire in a corner for hours to draw, fold, cut and glue to my heart’s content. Then in highschool, I was fortunate enough to enroll in a graphic arts program at our local trade school. That’s where I ran my first press, an AB Dick duplicator. I remember walking in the room the first day and standing in awe, gazing at the presses, light tables, stacks of paper and being engulfed by the scent of ink. It was magical; today instead of a school, it’s my own studio. I have yet to lose the feeling of awe or magic.
