About the studio
A quiet way
of making things.
Laravel began on a kitchen table with one press, a tin of ink, and a stack of paper that nobody else seemed to want. It has stayed small on purpose.
"Slow paper, slow ink, slow afternoons."
We make small editions of things we'd want on our own desk: letterpress prints, notecards, the occasional broadside, and one or two pieces a year that take longer than they should. Each one is printed in-house on a hand-fed press, set in metal or polymer, and inspected the way you'd inspect a loaf of bread you baked yourself — slowly, with one eyebrow up.
New work arrives a few times a year, in editions usually somewhere between thirty and two hundred. When an edition sells out, that's the end of it; we don't reprint, because the point was that the run was finite.
We don't run a newsletter. If you'd like a note when the next set is ready, write to us at [email protected] and we'll add you to a short list — no algorithm, no tracking pixel, just a plain email when there's something new.
How we work
- Press
- A 1962 Heidelberg Windmill and a Vandercook proof press. Both older than us; both better-behaved.
- Paper
- Cotton from small European mills. We buy a year at a time and we keep the offcuts.
- Ink
- Oil-based, mixed by hand for each run. Colours drift between editions, which is the point.
- Shipping
- Flat, in board-stiffened mailers, with a handwritten note. Twice a week, never on Fridays.
"We are not trying to scale. We are trying to print well, today."