Logo & Branding Design, Prints, Apparel, Art-Like Products
Cryptic Press specializes in custom design and typography for the downtown Knoxville community. We offer services for print, packaging, digital media, apparel and more.
Using antique wood and metal letters, we typeset posters by hand and print them on a Vandercook Proofing press. Any imagery for the posters is created by carving the line art out of a linoleum or wood block and pressing the block into the paper with ink in between. Each print runs through the press one piece of paper at a time, one color at a time which makes every poster, illustration or greeting card an original hand-printed piece of art.
I love printmaking! I consider my work to be between cute and beautiful. I have tea towels that have tacos all over them to a lovely lemon print. All my stamps are drawn and carved out by me. Each tea towel will be different because they are handprinted.