Last fall, one of my most favorite people in the world — who also just so happens to be one of the most talented people in existence (I’m not biased at all) — shared with me his mad Pysanky skillz, which are impressive, believe you me. Do you all know what Pysanky is? Pysanky is the name given to the traditional Ukrainian art of egg decoration. And, quite frankly, it freakin’ RULES. I wish I were better at it, d@mn it.
Anyway, even though Pysanky design generally doesn’t involve words, it can involve words. And there are some amazingly detailed and beautiful instruction books on the market. Plus, hello, this blog is called Words & Eggs, n’est-ce pas?!? We can’t have all these flippin’ words without balancing them out with some eggs, right? I gotta be equal-opportunity, or I just wouldn’t feel right. So, let’s celebrate some eggs, shall we?
That's me melting the wax off of my big bad Ukrainian egg creation last fall.
Categories: Design · eggs
Tagged: Design, egg decoration, eggs, Pysanky, Pysanky design, Ukraine, Ukrainian egg decoration, Ukrainian eggs
I got so excited and felt oddly altruistic (?!) about inaugurating the “Signature Series” in my last post, so I decided that my beneficence must be extended to another realm. As such, I have created: Wordshop Wednesday!!! Wordshop Wednesdays will feature purveyors of wordly goods that I’ve recently stumbled upon. The highlighted Wordshop could produce everything from letterpress loveliness to stationery stupendousness to typographical terrificness to fantastic found word-objects. I hope you will enjoy and maybe even offer suggestions of people/places/things/ideas worth checking out!
The inaugural Wordshop Wednesday would like to feature:
☞ CROOKED LETTER PRESS
(managed by Ellen Knudson, located in Starkville, MS)
Each of the images below may be found on Ms. Knudson’s lovely website.
(yeah, I know, Scalia Shmalia)
Categories: Letterpress · Type · Wordshop Wednesday
Tagged: books, Crooked Letter Press, Letterpress, prints, Type, Wordshop Wednesday
