Where FORGE (the proud owner of Sparkbox, re:play, and A Modern Eden)
chronicles their latest musings, lectures, and epiphanies.
Welcome to the FORGE Team
A quick post to welcome the newest member of the FORGE Ideas team: Anvil the Letterpress. Anvil is a Craftsmen Platen Press, and hails from a machine shop in Boston, MA. He decided to join the team after a stint at a local print shop, and we are more than happy to have him heading up our new Printing Division.
Read moreA Modern Eden at Starbucks
We wouldn’t blame you if you wanted to see the beauties for yourself (the A Modern Eden posters, that is). Lucky for you, they’ll be at the Brown Street Starbucks in Dayton for the month of October. So come and check out the posters while you sip your latte.
Read moreFORGE Printing Fieldtrip
A couple weeks ago we had the pleasure of traveling to Kansas City for a press-check at Vahalla Studios. They are the screen-printing masterminds that produced our A Modern Eden animal posters, which are now available for purchase on www.amoderneden.com. Check out more pics of the process and our trip on our Flickr Stream.
Read moreiPhone Development: Yeah, We Do That Too
An iPhone application FORGE had been working on for a few months titled “Speak, Piggy!” was approved for the iTunes store. This project is actually a smaller part of a larger project that will be launching next week: “A Modern Eden.”
Read moreLetter Trimmings
We’ve been going through X-Acto blades en masse these last couple of days. It’s nice to get back to the basics of hand-cut paper here at FORGE, where craft is still alive and well. Just wait for the final product!
Read moreA Modern Eden Featured on Design Sites
We have been nurturing our latest side project, A Modern Eden, for months. Last week was the time to bring it out in the world and see if we did a good job raising it. According to the degree of attention it is getting, we think we did a decent job of parenting.
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