Love chocolate? Love printing? Then you’re our kind of people! Join us Saturday, August 28th as Brian Pelletier of Kakao Chocolate fills your head with confectionery knowledge and your mitts with yummy samples from his shop. After you’ve gotten your chocolate fix, we’ll show you how our presses work and send you off with a unique, handmade box to store truffles in (or as a pretty keepsake after you’ve devoured the edibles). Reserve your spot today!

Read more... | Published: 08/21/10

Peep our new poster for the St. Louis Science Center! It covers a couple million years of evolution in one simple image… dinos to rockets. Hey! where do you think we get all that precious rocket fuel? Learn all about these things and more at the Science Center and while you’re there stop by the giftshop to pick up a poster.

Read more... | Published: 08/20/10

Everyone at The Firecracker Press is a supporter of public transit. We wish we had more of it in St. Louis but we’re happy to have what we do. That’s why we’re so thrilled to have been chosen by Arts in Transit to design and paint one of their shining fleet. We worked with the group at Herbert Hoover Boys and Girls Club to develop a “paint by number” design that was traced onto the bus and cooperatively painted by over 40 people. You can see our original design in the illustration above and the finished

Read more... | Published: 08/20/10

The 2010-2011 season of Billiken Club posters will all fold into books! That’s right, take that poster you ripped off of the street and fold it into a limited edition book. Collect both Fall and Spring semester posters (…or books?) and watch the story unfold.

Here’s how:

Step 1.
Place the poster flat on a table.

Step 2.
Gently tear along the center perforation.

Read more... | Published: 08/18/10

Come join your fellow typophiles as Bob Mullen discusses his book, Recasting a Craft: St. Louis Typefounders Respond to Industrialization. He will be presenting examples of typefaces and talking about the change in printing over the years. In addition to his expert take on historical printing in the Lou, we will be printing a type specimen. What’s more, you get one of these hand-printed works of art for the price of admission! Come learn & see the presses in action!

ONLY $5 per person. Space is limited, so reserve your seat today.

Saturday, August

Read more... | Published: 08/07/10