Sure, PsPrint is an online printer that serves customers all over the country, but with all the customers who pick up their printing orders through our Will Call departments in Oakland, Calif., the Chicago area and Bethlehem, Pa., we often feel like a small-town company. When I’m out and about in the San Francisco Bay Area, I regularly pick up promotional postcards and sticker handouts, only to return to work and realize these businesses are our customers. This week’s “Hot Off the Press” features several local companies I like and respect:
- I regularly pop in to worker-owned Arizmendi in Emeryville, Calif., before work for a cheese roll and an Americano – sometimes after work, too, for its pizza of the day.
- I pass by 1-2-3-4 Go! Records almost every day on my way to work. Despite the rise of digital music, this brick-and-mortar music store lives on.
- Speaking of brick and mortar, Looking Glass Photo sells cameras and supplies but doles out friendly advice for free – its staff is not only a knowledgeable bunch but talented, too, and is holding a group photography show at PhotoboothSF (another PsPrint customer) for which we printed its promo postcard.
The printing done by our customers always inspires me. Did you see last week’s “Hot Off the Press,” with some absolutely gorgeous design?
Sticker design by Jesse Ledoux for 1-2-3-4 Go! Records
Postcard photography by Anita Gay for Looking Glass Photo
Sticker design by Stephen Long for Cakehead Bakeshop
Postcard design via San Diego County Farm Bureau for San Marcos Farmers’ Market
Vinyl banner by Design Action for Arizmendi
Postcard for Murphy’s Magic Supplies
Business card for Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue
Postcard design by Rebecca Willbond for Conklin
Cover design by Justin Aymer for Christ Church’s “The Flame” magazine
Sticker for Molly Mutt
Postcard design by Angie Carrier for “A+A” art exhibit
Shanti Project greeting card design by Matthew Simmons and Mindy Schweitzer-Rawls for National Volunteer Appreciation Week
Newsletter design by Annamaria Gatlin for Caffe Umbria
Business card design by Market Connections’ Dena Snyder for Blue Ridge Energy Systems
Sticker for Eastern Sierra Land Trust
Postcard for Indigeny Reserve
Sticker for Curtin and Allen
I love simple designs that command visual attention - the Molly Mutt and San Marcos Farmer's Market pieces are perfect! I also like the Murphy's Magic postcard - hilarious!