I’m feel­ing par­tic­u­larly happy and excited today to announce the first unveil­ing of Future Prim­i­tive, my line of rub­ber stamps. It’s going to be held at Ctrl + Art + Cre­ate on Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 5, 2011, from 10 a.m. — 2 p.m at the Heights The­ater. I’ll have prêt-à-porter stamps for teach­ers and peo­ple who like to use stamps on their paper ephemera, as well as cus­tom address stamps, book­plates and more that you can order to be deliv­ered in time for your hol­i­day greet­ings. I’m really excited to do some­thing new and I will be there recov­er­ing from Erin + Blake’s wed­ding which is the night before, so bring me extra cof­fee! I ‘ve included a pre­view, but I don’t want to show off too many because most of my pro­to­types are also gifts for my friends and fam­ily, that would kind of give away the sur­prise – one below eas­ily gives it away, but oh well! Soon I’ll have the etsy shop up and run­ning, then you’ll be able to see ‘em all if you can’t make it. EDIT 11/15: The shop is live! View the rub­ber stamps that are cur­rently avail­able and let me know if you’re inter­ested in a cus­tom order.

 

FUTURE PRIMITIVE — wood-handled rub­ber stamps made by Jes­sica Define

For the past cou­ple years I’ve pri­mar­ily designed for the web, and that type of work sort of exists in this alter­na­tive uni­verse where noth­ing is real – it’s not the tac­tile, prim­i­tive sort of design that’s been passed down from one gen­er­a­tion to another. I felt like I needed to do some­thing with my hands – some­thing that would restore that sense of his­tor­i­cal rel­e­vance to the things I design. Future Prim­i­tive is a line of rub­ber stamps that I’ve cre­ated to use as sta­tionery, address labels, book­plates, dec­o­ra­tion, and as noti­fi­ca­tions that just make you feel good to use and see. Many are designed to be cus­tomized and some I’m plan­ning to offer in lit­tle bun­dles, I hope to see you there!

You should also come to check out Work­horse Print­mak­ers, the let­ter­press com­pany that printed our wed­ding invi­ta­tions who will have their goods for sale and will be doing a make-your-own let­ter­press poster. I saw that artist Lisa Chow is also going to be there, I’m excited to see her work – I recently met her at my yoga stu­ido: Joy.

Here’s a Sneak Peek of CTRL+ART+CREATE 2011: 2nd Annual Art Fes­ti­val | AIGA Hous­ton Blog

I hope to see you there!

 

CTRL + ART + CREATE

Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 5, 2011, from 10 a.m. — 2 p.m

http://www.heightstheater.net/

Loca­tion:
Heights The­ater
339 W. 19th St.
Hous­ton, Texas 77008