Lettre Sauvage - Custom Printing

Custom Printing...

is well suited to ideas that matter, that require presentation in a manner that will immediately impress & differentiate.

calendar & subscription cards	broadside	business stationery	benefit showbill
brochure & business card	business card	broadside	accordion book
CD sleeves	poster	broadside	brick

Community Studio

Lettre Sauvage studio offers personalized lessons in the craft of letterpress printing for individuals and groups of up to four. Use of the press is available to experienced printers.

Printing Lesson

By appointment

Learn to operate the press. Basics of typesetting, inking, preparing paper and making the press ready to print will be covered.

Taught by Fiona Spring

$35 per hour per person

$50 per hour for a group of 2-4 working on the same project.

Studio Rental

By appointment

After one or two lessons, students may wish to work on a solo project. Lettre Sauvage staff will be available to help with services like ordering and cutting paper and advising on printing and design issues. There is also a small library in the studio of books about books, printing, design and poetry.

Equipment includes:
Vandercook SP15
Pilot table-top press
Chandler and Price 10x15
Challenge 23" paper cutter

$20 the first hour, $10 each additional hour

Lettre Sauvage - Santa Paula, CA - (805) 794-0167 - sales@lettresauvage.com - legal & site info

Unless clearly stated otherwise, all content (C) & (P) 2008 Lettre Sauvage, any duplication, republication, or alteration, is strictly forbidden without permission from the specific content's originator/s. (In other words don't steal our designs, ideas, texts, or images without asking and being granted permission. Legal systems are mainly there to protect those who can afford them, so think about what you can afford, and then just make us an offer.) Lettre Sauvage, it's agents, employees, and creators make no guarantee regarding the fitness or suitability of this site to any particular purpose whether intententional or unintentional. Lettre Sauvage will not honor any claim or demand for compensation related to the veracity, currency, or stability, of the information offered on this site. Lettre Sauvage, it's agents, employees, and creators reserve the right to alter or deface or otherwise completely mess up any content or information stored on this site, at our discretion. By using this site you agree to abide by the contracts made availble on this initial body of text (body.htm) and thereby release any and all claims for compensation or damages related to the use, abuse, accuracy, or suitability of this site or any of it's content for any purpose, regardless of whether any percieved injury or damage is the direct or indirect result of any negligence, action, or inaction on the part of Lettre Sauvage, it's agents, employees, and creators. Lettre Sauvage does not store, retrieve, or make available any user data on this site. All data related to purchases and shopping initialized from this site are sent to secured servers at PayPal for verification storage and processing, Lettre Sauvage does not verify, store, process, or make available any payment or credit related information. Any and all email, or contact information, or texts provided by users through links or forms directly on lettresauvage.com become publishable property of Lettre Sauvage it's creators, maintainers, or agents. (In other words if you say something incredibly mean, or funny, or even totally nice to us... we can publish it, we do have presses and some knowledge about website creation, and we do read our email so this should be pretty obvious.)

This website was cobbled together using notepad, javascript, & CSS. All items printed and photographed by Lettre Sauvage (most likely within a 2 block radius of our home studio.) The revolution begins at home, start something.

Longtime fans of the Velaslavasay Panorama, an exhibition space for experimental film, puppet theater, and other visual delights in downtown Los Angeles (including a carnivorous plant garden), we were thrilled to print their 2007 holiday card. The mailer, designed by the wonderful Sara Velas, included a calendar marking the year of the rat and a song to the north wind.

The Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 West 24th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007
http://panoramaonview.org

Jason Diller has an intimate relationship with Rumi under sun or stars at Bart's Books. We dropped off a linoleum block and carving tool with him and came back to find this striking symbol- a combination of the alchemical symbols for iron and gold - that we printed along with his poem.

Especially in today’s world, reading a hand written note or thank you reaches us on a primal level conveying a sense of community and care. Louise Robertson’s note cards are a fine example of how stationery can strengthen the message. The design, colors and rich paper are so “Louise.” She chose from many “clean, Victorian” motifs to create her best expression.

Letterpress playbill for a benefit concert to save Art City the iconic Ventura Studio Arts center. When we heard about the issues facing Art City... we all put our hands to, along with many other artists and musicians some of whose names appear on the poster itself. The photo on the print is copyrighted 2008 to Schaf. Thanks also to Lorenzo, Sophia, Russel, and all the others behind the scenes.

Doug Green Consulting assists non-profit entities organize and grow to reach their potential. Doug has a list of worthy, clients that is continually expanding. This piece was designed collaboratively and then printed using environmentally sound materials and methods, assisting its relevance to the socially and environmentally conscious audience.

John Nichols Gallery.com specializes in vintage & vernacular photography and also shows painting & printmaking in the lovely Main Street gallery which is like an oasis of culture in our quaint small town. Mr. Nichols (as we like to call him) is a curator, stage manager for countless events statewide and an award winning photographer.

Jamie O’Halloran is a creative and firey printer who visited the press and created this gorgeous broadside and a small chapbook in one day- from hand-set type! See her read.She is a poet and teacher who contributes immensely to southern California literary culture.

Giants of the 1950s is printed from photopolymer plates with Bembo 12 and 16 point typefaces. Carol DeCanio's color photograph of a 1930s car has been rendered as a half-tone by Cameron Leggett. The accordion is printed on Crane's Lettra paper and the dust jacket on fawn gray Stonehenge. Carol DeCanio, a published poet for over thirty years, received the Santa Barbara Arts Fund Individual Artist Award in Poetry, has had art shows of her poetry/photography, and presently appears in local venues with a program of poetry and song on the theme of Home.

The Purple Wheelchair project was brought to us by a man named "DEPT." (pronounced: dee-part-ment) He found paper that was stocked clandestinely in the local Kelly Paper store and brought it to the shop while we were out. It's eery glow from the top of the solvent cabinet is joyfully unsettling. http://www.outlawconduit.com

When conceiving the design for the first bottles of Caveman Jones, the young winemaker Jean-Benoit Deslauriers brought in a worn book of Mozart, Chopin and Gounod. This small book inspired not only a rough and minimalist label but also a series of prints and a broadside dedicated to Jean-Benoit’s father.

Caveman Jones
2007 Grenache
Santa Barbara County

David Ray, the current owner of Bart's Bookshas restored the famous bookstore to a state of chic grunge that inspires the devout readers who congregate there. He collaborates with many local artists, as an actor, artist, musician, and supporter. We're happy to be included in his swift stream of consciousness.

brick (ALL LOWER CASE) has been a staple of Ventura poetry and sub-culture since the early 90’s born of the mind and built of the will. started by Michael Bauer (zeitbauer) passed on and continued through various iterations as it was intended. All heave the brick.

brick 14 has a combination of serigraph & letterpress elements. contents include poems by sophia kidd, genevieve yue, and fiona spring. printing folding and numbering assistance provided by cameron leggett.