CoinOp

Here’s a peak at our latest project, the designer card series. Get yours free with every order, and at select locations worldwide (let us know if you’d like a stack for your store, shop or office). Start now, so you can collect ‘em all.

Look for new designs each month, featuring fresh work from a talented team of graphic designers, illustrators, and artists, expertly printed by Pinball’s savvy production team. Sometimes the printers are also the artists around here! Case in point, the first illustration, an intricate rendering of a hare, was created by none other than Brent Wick, our fearless ink slinger.

Stay tuned for next month’s installment by Aaron Draplin

Have you heard about our artisan stationery line, Tenth & Grant? Not only are we a design-sensitive print shop, we also have a quickly growing line of beautiful greeting cards, notebooks, pocket notebooks, coasters sets, and more, all created by some of our favorite designers and illustrators. Feast your eyes on our latest wares, to be added to our online catalog very soon!

Two new A2 greeting cards, designed by our newest addition to the Tenth & Grant troupe, Emily Quillen of Cosmos Creative! Printed in poppy greens and blues, these two cards, entitled “Tux Ribbon” and “Pinball,” are blank inside, include a matching A2 envelope, and are perfect for just about any occasion. $2.50 each, or $12.00 for a box of 12.

A lovely perfect-bound notebook, featuring overlapping springtime petals by our very own Laura Whipple. Includes 144 pages of 100% recycled flecky grid paper and sturdy chipboard covers, perfect bound and hinge-scored for maximum functionality. $12

Stay tuned as we add new artists and stationery goods to our line, and keep a look-out for us at this year’s National Stationery Show in NYC!

Business cards are literally flying out the door these days. Check out our latest:

3-color chipboard business cards for New York-based hip-hop clothing line, paraXbrand

3-color business cards for Portland-based sustainability consultancy Hutani, featuring a well-paired mustard yellow and plum purple

Striking 2-color business cards for North Valley Homes, designed by Jeff Meakins of Cinco Design and printed using metallic silver and Pantone green on Environment 120# Cover Desert Storm

3-color forest-inspired card for Oregon City-based attorney, James Nicita, designed by Cari Vander Yacht

Adorable folding business cards for local marketing collective, Milk Milk, with a custom holepunch. Printed in hot pink and lime green, perfect for spring-time!

Another winter flurry of beautiful business cards!

Including:

Sophisticated, earth-toned cards designed by Ian Lynam for local filmmaker Trevor Fife.

Cherry-red nautical-themed cards for Virginia-based Corsair Consulting.

Mini-postcards and business cards for our friend and Prank Design luminary, Michael Crigler’s Chase the Rising Sun project.

Simple black silhouetted design for local real estate agent Colleen Malone, also designed by Ian Lynam.

Avocado-hued business cards for Balanced Heart Acupuncture.

Warm 2-color cards for local video game development studio, Applied Cinematics, formerly known as Skelet0n.

Here goes! I’m adding a new category to CoinOp called Graphic History.

Recently, I’ve been reading (or more truthfully ogling) the book Art Deco Textiles by Alain-Rene Hardy. It contains exquisite reproductions of fabrics from France spanning the time period of 1910-1940. My favorite designer from the book was Sonia Delaunay (1895-1979), a Ukrainain-French artist extraodinaire whose output ranged from paintings to furniture to fabrics and set design.

She, along with her husband Robert Delaunay, helped further the art movement Orphism, which utilized strong colors and geometric shapes, and was apparently their offshoot of cubism. I adored the bold colors and playful geometric repeats in her textile designs. I also appreciated the anecdotal story that a quilt made for her son Charles as a baby (now housed in Paris’ Musée National d’Art Moderne) kick-started her career in abstract designs. Proof that sleep deprivation can inspire greatness!

More booklets.

January ‘08 arrived, kicking and screaming, and with it came a bounty of booklet projects, including these top picks:

Programs for the Children of the Revolution festival, designed by our friends at the environmentally inspired arts organization, ORLO. The technicals: 16 pages + cover, 2/0 covers on the (unfortunately titled) Environment 80# Cover Desert Storm, 1/1 (black) interiors, two stitches.

12-page brochures for our favorite neighborhood co-op, People’s. 2/2 (black + Pantone green) on New Leaf Imagination 80# Text White (100% post-consumer).

Lovely 24-page + cover booklets for Veneer Magazine, with letterpress’d covers provided by Emily Johnson of EMprint PRESS. Interiors printed on hippie-chic Classic Laid 70# Text Ivorystone. This project features the rarely used, yet unique (and practical) loop stitch.

Whoppin’ 56-page + cover booklets for The Back Room series, curated by Stephanie Snyder, with booklets designed by Plazm. 1/1 (black) interiors, 2/0 metallic covers on Esse Espresso 100# Cover. Triple stitched.

Not just a fearless ink slinger, but a talented illustrator as well, Brent is an awesome addition to the Pinball team!

It’s official!

Early this spring, we will be releasing doubledutch’s debut album “Gungle Dungn” on the bangback label. We’re super excited to work with Dhani & Jordan on this beautiful project and can’t wait to share more details. Stay tuned!

What with the holiday bustle, we have a few “This Week in Business Cards” columns to catch up on!

A few of our recent top picks include 2-color cards for the brand new eco-clothing line Oh Buggy, real estate company Willamette Realty Group, Tokyo-based cultural anthropologist Dwayne Dixon, as well as some bling-beautiful cards for one of our favorite graphic designers, Ian Lynam, featuring metallic purple ink, foiling, and custom embossing. Behold:

We recently printed this fabulous two-color, eight-panel poster for Pattern People, an emerging force in the surface design community. Founded by the dynamic duo of Jessie Whipple and Claudia Brown, the Portland based company specializes in designing patterns for textile and interior uses. Look for them at the Direction Textile Show in New York this week!