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General Info
Nina Interlandi Bell, the owner and creative mind behind Tweedle Press, is a life-long lover of all things self-designed, crafted, and paper-driven. Her love of artistic creation goes all the way back to imagining and designing original fonts in high school notebooks. Her experience takes many forms, some of them a bit (healthily) crazy – tattoo designs, cartoon characters [in old comic strips], rock band fliers, halloween displays, and even a painted wooden sign above a childhood haven for secret meetings [The Groovy Doods].
Nina designs for a living, but she can also be seen frolicking in the woods, napping with her cats, decorating her condo, trying to save the planet, and cooking organic gourmet meals. She is also currently the creative director for Bruce Packaging, Olive Paper, and Empty Boxes, the owner of Hi Blue (It’s Me, Neon Green) Design, and the blogger behind Pulp & Press and Under The Wild Rose As Weasels.
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After having her wedding invitations letterpress printed several years ago, Nina discovered a passion. She prides Tweedle press in being a very personal venture. Personal with a punch. Nina will look you in the eye and tell you what she is capable of; she will listen to what you want and take it into the utmost consideration; she will take your quirky and elegant personality and print it into something dedicated and visible. Tweedle Press is not a bland corporation hawking for predictability. Tweedle Press is a design venture made concrete by Nina herself, along with her own resources and everyday elements that contribute to its paperrific character: barns, sepia, tea, fond, seafood, wheat pale ales, the old west, boots, overalls, montana, cats, leaves, dirt, family, survivalism, lemongrass, belt buckles, grommets, nostaliga, and thunder. A rockstar Western. Hands-on edginess.
It’s true: people don’t write letters anymore. Email has invaded the collective conscience. It can be scary to send something off when you can’t go back and reference it – there is no copy anywhere. You could photocopy your written letters just to make sure you don’t contradict yourself, but that defeats the purpose of epistomal intimacy. Plus it's a little weird. It’s important to step outside of your safety zone once in a while. Printing is a classic, universal art. It is tangible. Who doesn’t want a regular letter in the mail as opposed to a digital collection of words? The digital words might be accesible day after day, but they don’t have the kind of immediacy that, say, a painting has, or an original sculpture has. Words can be copied, digitally, into infinity. Ones and zeroes. Letters are only meant for one person. One moment.
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There is a lot of personality involved in the postal world. Tweedle Press offers a nicely symbolic way to take traditional junk leftover from your old life and channel it into something spunkier and more useful. Shredded junk mail can be recycled and turned into invites, RSVPS, placecards, menus, programs, stationery, business cards. A series of individual connections.
The possibilities are only as endless as the crushed ink inside an old press.
(Most excellent bio penned by non other than Holly Interlandi, Nina's sister). |
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