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Lettre Sauvage

Destroy Dirty Things

About Me

We are two ladies (Fiona and Genevieve) who make up a letterpress studio that prints stationery, broadsides, artist books and sometimes a poetry zine called brick.You can find our paper goods at Etsy , City Lights Books , and Babcock Books .

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My Blog

I won a sweepstakes!

OK, so this post will have nothing to do with letterpressing or Lettre Sauvage. But I won a sweepstakes today! I came in 3rd Place from American Laser Center, which means I get $300 worth of either la...
Posted by Lettre Sauvage on Fri, 25 May 2007 05:43:00 PST

father's day card!

Normally I'm not really a fan of holiday cards, but this one celebrates typography in addition to fatherhood, which is a fantastic combination! Available at etsy.Stay tuned for our new muffler puffs c...
Posted by Lettre Sauvage on Thu, 17 May 2007 10:48:00 PST

how to survive

This happened yesterday: Tobias and I were sitting outside his store in Los Feliz, Young and Jelinek, splitting a 40 in plastic cups, burning through a pack of Nat Shermans with just one match, watchi...
Posted by Lettre Sauvage on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:48:00 PST

messy workshop

Can you imagine what would happen if you smeared a lot of ink onto a linoleum block and then smashed it onto a piece of paper? We couldn't either! As the ink dries, we'll post photos of the completed ...
Posted by Lettre Sauvage on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:12:00 PST

new cards (kind of)! and a photo shoot in the backyard!

We have listed a newish card on Etsy, our beloved reels card. Check it out along with photos of other cards newly sprung from the garden....
Posted by Lettre Sauvage on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:28:00 PST

letterpress guide

Grace at Design Sponge has put up a really wonderful letterpress guide with Lettre Sauvage in it. We are lucky to be with such esteemed and creative company. Scroll toward the bottom and find us there...
Posted by Lettre Sauvage on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:56:00 PST

here we go again...

http://designsponge.blogspot.com/2007/02/lettresauvage.htmlT his is the third time design*sponge has posted on us in the last month, and we can only surmise that this is what has caused our meteoric ri...
Posted by Lettre Sauvage on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:48:00 PST

short films

I am in a class right now where I have to make a number of short films. Normally when I take classes I just read or watch things, then talk about them and sometimes write about them. Working with tape...
Posted by Lettre Sauvage on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 06:00:00 PST

stuff for sale!

We have a lot of new stuff we just put up on Etsy. Some new things and old favorites. If you like the Coo Coo Cat, we especially like you.
Posted by Lettre Sauvage on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:13:00 PST

a mistaken identity

Yesterday I received a friend request from someone named "Pookies." The name(s?) was in itself a surprise. Pookies also lives in Thailand, which was also intriguing. I wrote to Pookies, asking if I kn...
Posted by Lettre Sauvage on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:00:00 PST