Whether you are
looking for letterpress wedding invitations, birth announcements, anniversary
notices, retirement invitations, business cards, or any other kind of
social stationery, traditional letterpress printing, when done well,
gives you an elegant appearance and feel that no other printing process
can.
Welcome to my website. I personally respond to each and every inquiry, and I look forward
to hearing from you. I hope you will enjoy your
visit.
Michael Coughlin
Owner
newspaper article
"Cornucopia -Michael Coughlin didn't know it, but he picked a great time to buy old printing presses.
Lined
up side by side in his print shop in this tiny Bayfield County
community on the shore of Lake Superior are eight letterpresses and one
offset press dating from the 1880s to the 1960s. There's also a
Linotype machine, large drawers containing metal and wood type in
various sizes and fonts, and a book-binding machine with four spools of
white thread on top." Read the full article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
radio interview
Minnesota Public Radio featured my shop in the spring of 2009. Read the accompanying article, or listen to the interview right here.
venture north
Venture North,
a television show on PBS in Duluth, featured my shop in the fall of
2008. Take a look at this short video to see some of my old presses in
action, making the beautiful, one-of-a-kind work I will create with
you.
My presses are old and slow by today's standards, but
I think you'll be charmed by the individual nature and beautiful
quality of letterpress printing.
Quickly becoming our best seller, this charming book that my wife wrote, my son designed, and I published is truly a family affair!
This is a delightful tale of a man whose life has been devoted to collecting "things." His house is filled with an assortment of items, some strange, some unusual, some fanciful.
Robert Holton, a renowned Bayfield, Wisconsin artist, brought this story to life with his wonderful illustrations which capture in four-color brilliance Lucius' amazing world.
But the book, besides being a whimsical tale of a man and his collection of things, is at heart a challenge to youngsters to pursue their dreams, to follow their passions wherever they may lead. It encourages children to look inside to discover what it is that transforms existence into living.
Lucius and His Collection of Unusual Things has now become, by far, our national best selling children's book. Learn more
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