In organizing past print jobs, I came upon a veritable Scout Book Rainbow! These are pocket notebooks created by a selection of amazing clients. From left to right:

The Portland Saturday Market coupon book conceived by Jody Helfand and designed by Briar Levit (www.briarmade.com)

Brooklyn skyline by Andy Pratt (www.andypratt.net)

Promotional notebook by the Old Wood Company of Asheville, NC. (www.theoldwoodco.com)

Beer Journal by Dave Selden and BS Brewing (www.33beers.com)

and finally, a promotional notebook by Beardwood&Co. (www.beardwood.com)

Delightful!

The HUB Collective is a Portland-based design group that printed this exquisite Scout Book with us. We just can't stop drooling over their perfect combination of bold color and photography! The teal Pantone soy ink they chose looks really great on the Scout Book's chipboard cover.

HUB is a homegrown group of artists, designers and web developers working out of a studio in Portland's Pearl district. www.hubltd.com

Mark Menjivar is a Texas-based photographer who explores food issues in his ongoing project, You Are What You Eat. Composed of portraits of the interiors of refrigerators across America, Menjivar documents and exposes the truths revealed by what we consume with our bodies.

Expertly illustrated by Kate Bingaman-Burt, these limited-edition Scout Books invite the user to document their eating habits for one month. The inside cover urges: “Think! Is it food? Who made it? Where did it come from? How did it taste? How fast did you eat it?”

One of the Scout Book’s 32 interior pages holds an original photograph by Menjivar, a beautiful peek of fresh sage living on in a refrigerator. All proceeds from the sale of these books will benefit Janus Youth Programs, a Portland non-profit with an urban agriculture program that employs, educates, and empowers at-risk youth.

These Food Journals are available exclusively at Ampersand Vintage, www.ampersandvintage.com

Portland record label and publishing project Marriage Records just released this new publication, and we're proud to have printed it!

Wallace Cochran writes a creative non-fiction history of the rocket, and Marriage Records‘ publishing imprint MPH has released it in this gorgeous limited-edition book. One half of the band Drakkar Sauna, Cochran’s text lent itself to lyrics for the band’s latest release on Marriage Records.

This book was lovingly assembled from two colors of interior text-weight stock and wrapped in a cover letterpress printed by EMprint Press. Design was done by AF Jamison. As much an exploration of publishing as it is of paper and ink, we’re proud to have worked on this specimen of fine printing.

Find more at www.marriagerecords.com/mph

Hot off the presses this week is a stellar illustration we couldn't help but share.

Timothy Karpinski is a Portland artist, designer, illustrator and co-proprietor of Together Gallery in NE Portland.

This poster is for A Door of Hope, a weekly gathering at the Hinson Annex in SE Portland. Local people of all types gather every Saturday evening at 6 to pray for the city.

We really just can't get over this awesome illustration. Check Timothy out at www.timothykarpinski.com and A Door of Hope at www.adoorofhope.net.

We're proud to feature Jill on Edition #13 of our Designer Card Deck. Printed on 80% Recycled Environment 80# White Felt Cover stock, this card was offset printed with three soy-based Pantone ink colors.

Portland's own Jill Bliss is an artist, designer, crafter, illustrator and creative entrepreneur. Jill explores the natural world in her signature style, and these poppies are just the latest in her constantly growing collection of gorgeous illustrations of flowers, plants, and even tree houses!

Watch for these fabulous freebies at Portland Area locations! Do you have a sweet retail location, gallery, or other creative space and want to feature designer cards in your giveaway space? Contact us! We'll hook you up with some free cards!

Check out our other Designer Cards here: http://pinballpublishing.com/printing/dcd

And find more of Jill Bliss's great work here:
http://www.jillbliss.com

Hi Society6 friends!

We wanted to share some of the beautiful work that's rolled through the Pinball shop lately. We're so happy to be the printshop of choice for so many talented artists who make great work. Check out their sites, and find more details about the printing process for these pieces over on our blog, CoinOp (www.pinballpublishing.com/coinop)

Thanks for reading!

Pinball Publishing is proud to announce the winner of our "Get your work on the cover of a Scout Book" grant!

Lloyd Eugene Winter IV's ethereal, intricate artwork won us over. He was voted the most popular by you folks, his Society6 peers.

Find him here: http://winter.society6.com/
and here: http://blog.lloydwinter.com/

And get ready for a stellar Scout Book featuring Lloyd's artwork!

Thank you to everyone who participated, and keep your eyes open for another Pinball Publishing grant here on Society 6. We had a lot of fun looking through the finalist studios and were really stoked to take part in such a sweet arrangement. Thanks, Society6, for being here and doing the great things you do.

We want to share a glimpse into some of the daily operations at our printshop! We like to demystify the printing process as much as possible for creative folks like you, so it's easier to understand just what's happening when you send your work away to an offset printshop. Well, we can at least offer a glimpse into what happens when you send your work to us. We're not quite like other printshops! Hope you enjoy the peek into the printing world!

More photos like this are posted to our flickr stream. www.flickr.com/printpinball

Sometimes we just feel so lucky to be able to work with so many awesome artists.

It's been busy at the shop lately, and it seems that Scout Books are where it's at! Wanted to share with you guys some of the sweet, sweet pocket notebooks we've been rolling off the presses. Hope you enjoy!