Dandy Lion Press is a letterpress design and print studio based in San Francisco's lively Mission District. We create highly detailed stationery featuring naturalistic style images of flora and fauna both real and imaginary. We don't believe in clip art and we love the look of things hand drawn and hand made. All our imagery is original and begins as pencil sketches, pen and ink drawings or linocuts. These are made into plates and printed on our vintage letterpress machines, the younger of which dates from the late 1960s and the elder from 1910. Each card is hand fed through the presses and this creates subtle variations between each piece, thus showing their handmade, not machine-made origins.
We also print custom jobs, such as wedding invitations, birth announcements and business cards. Please feel free to contact us with any letterpress inquiries at 415.999.6225.
Dandy Lion Press is a letterpress design and print studio based in San Francisco's lively Mission District. We create highly detailed stationery featuring naturalistic style images of flora and fauna both real and imaginary. We don't believe in clip art and we love the look of things hand drawn and hand made. All our imagery is original and begins as pencil sketches, pen and ink drawings or linocuts. These are made into plates and printed on our vintage letterpress machines, the younger of which dates from the late 1960s and the elder from 1910. Each card is hand fed through the presses and this creates subtle variations between each piece, thus showing their handmade, not machine-made origins.
We also print custom jobs, such as wedding invitations, birth announcements and business cards. Please feel free to contact us with any letterpress inquiries at 415.999.6225.