Our 16 Smackdown spots are full and the waiting list is long. Alas, if only our building/drying rack was taller. Come support your favorite teams, printing at the following times:

1-2:15

• Evolution Press
• Hey,
• KeeganMeegan
• Tether

2:15-3:30

• Amazon
• City Arts
• Fitch
• Wong Doody Crandall Weiner

3:30-4:45

• Turnstyle
• Ten Gun
• AIGA Seattle
• Starbucks

4:45-6:00

• Modern Dog
• Team Nerd
• Beautiful Angle
• Design Commission

Sixteen spirited teams from Seattle’s art and design community have entered the Steamroller Smackdown, a thrilling competition to see who can print the coolest gigantic poster in the parking lot with a steamroller on August 25, 2012. Newcomers include Amazon, City Arts Magazine, Hey, and KeeganMeegan. Returning: Beautiful Angle, Design Commission, Evolution Press, Starbucks, Wong Doody Crandall Weiner, AIGA Seattle, Team Nerd, Modern Dog, Tether, Fitch, Turnstyle and Ten Gun! These giants of design (the posters, not the people) will be auctioned off to support the letterpress program at the School of Visual Concepts.

Presenting this year’s Wayzgoose invitation, designed by KeeganMeegan & Co. and printed at Evolution Press on Reich Savoy paper. Come pluck one up for yourself at the School of Visual Concepts before they all fly away.

Thanks a ton, participants, donors, volunteers, and attendees! We’ll see you at the 11th Annual Wayzgoose & Steamroller Smackdown on August 25, 2012.

In the meantime, please enjoy a photo recap of 2011′s event:

Eva is spotted with a Wayzgoose keepsake, hot off the handpress

Steamy roller driver Annabelle relaxing in front of a day’s work

Sara and Brad light up the Letterpress Marketplace

Equipment Swap under the big top

Raffle prizes are admired

Amy, Tilly, Jules and Becki in an uncharacteristic moment of frivolity

Split fountain stunner from Evolution Press

How ’bout you?  

Presenting a sneak peek of our latest keepsake, commemorating the 10th Annual Wayzgoose at the School of Visual Concepts. You can print one yourself, free of charge, upstairs in the letterpress shop. While you’re up there, you can enjoy a bird’s eye view of the Steamroller Smackdown. Want to be thoroughly ’goosed? Here’s a reminder of what we have in store.

The Wayzgoose Marketplace features presses from Bellingham to Portland in addition to tons of local Seattle talent. Here are the presses, paper purveyors, and organizations that you’ll meet:

• AIGA Seattle
• Anagram Press
• Beautiful Angle
• Bison Bookbinding & Letterpress
• Blick
• Book Arts Guild
• Constellation & Co.
• ilfant press
• KeeganMeegan
• Miss Cline Press
• Mohawk Fine Papers
• Myrtle Alley Press
• Notta Pixie Press
• Paper Hammer
• Physical Fiction
• Red Bat Press
• Reich Paper
• Springtide Press
• Seattle Center for Book Arts
• SVC
• Tutta Lou
• visualchemist

On August 27, 2011, the competition will be fierce as teams from the local art and design community compete to print the coolest gigantic poster in the SVC parking lot with a steamroller instead of the traditional printing press. This year we have concocted the perfect storm of creative studios, letterpress superstars, and contingents from local art & design programs.

1:00–2:15

• Beautiful Angle
• Blast Radius
• Design Commission
• Seattle Central Creative Academy

2:15–3:30

• Evolution Press
• Starbucks Global Creative
• Ten Gun
• Turnstyle

3:30–4:45

• AIGA Seattle
• Wexley School for Girls
• Fitch
• Tether

4:45–6:00

• Modern Dog
• Team Whitman
• School of Visual Concepts
• Stern & Faye

Above, Team Starbucks makes a grand entrance in 2010.

Newbies, here’s what you signed up for:

Designed by Jenny Wilkson and printed at Evolution Press on luxurious double-thick cotton cover stock from Reich Paper, the 10th Annual Wayzgoose invitation is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple. You don’t have to buy any chocolate bars to get one; just ask at SVC and you shall receive.

Thanks to the hard work of letterpress, graphic design, and web maven Elizabeth Mullaly, a true renaissance woman, the Wayzgoose has a permanent online presence. Check back for event news and wacky photos, almost as entertaining as the event itself!