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The Firecracker Press - Loved!

Mentioned among things like the Gateway Arch, The Saint Louis Zoo, and Anheuser-Busch, the staff at The Firecracker Press is blushing to have been picked among Where Magazine’s, “30 Things We Love About St. Louis” list. You can see the entire list in the latest issue of Where Magazine. Other Cherokee Street picks… StL Style and the annual Cherokee Cookie Spree!

How to Fold a Billiken Club Poster into a Book

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. Buy the whole series!

Here’s how:

Step 1.
Place the poster flat on a table.

Step 2.
Gently tear along the center perforation.

Interview with Eleven Magazine

Eleven Magazine caught up with Eric a while ago to talk about the shop and current projects. You can read it here.

Siamo grandi in Italia!

Check out our interview in the Contemporary Standard. You can find the Italian version here, or read the translated interview below.

Q) Hi Eric, tell us your story.

A) We started The Firecracker Press in 2002 after a long string of unsuccessful graphic design jobs and in the aftermath of my Father’s death. I was unhappy with the state of my traditional design career and motivated to turn life’s sad moments into positive things. I quit my job, bought our first press from a small-town printshop that was closing its doors and moved it into

Lumberyard & ReadyMade

L4 was featured on Readymade’s Editor’s Blog…read all about it
here…

ReadyMade is named after the term that Marcel Duchamp coined in 1915 for a series of sculptures that playfully rethought the relationship between people and mass-produced objects, everyday items and art. ReadyMade is about people who make things and the culture of making.

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