POP CULTURE DIGITAL HEROS

Every day it's a new battle against over-pixelated files, unprintable type fonts and uncorrected colors! Not to mention the economic crisis...but your friends at Lalande Digital Art Press Paris are there (that is here, in Paris) to save the day, with better prices, excellent printing and the best customer service in French and English (français et anglais) in all of France Land. A dynamic duo ready to do business, no matter the weather. Let us help you save the day chez vous!

Above: Robert Ruscoe and Matthew Rose.

Amy Ross : Bird Heart at Keep Calm

Amy Ross has birds in her heart, and her newest print, ‘Bird Heart’ a signed and numbered limited edition of 80, 10 by 10 inches, proves it. Printed by Lalande Digital Art Press Paris for Keep Calm this print is taken from an original collage of bird heads cut out of the pages of an old field guide. "

All of the material that goes into Amy’s collages is found on the shelves of used bookstores, from field guides to auction catalogues and art history books to illustrated encyclopedias. "The idea for this particular collage came to Amy while baking Valentine’s Day cookies with her daughter, when she used a cookie cutter as a guide for the heart shape," writes Lucas Lepola, director Keep Calm.

The print is available directly from Keep Calm, they ship anywhere! Prints are wrapped in acid-free tissue paper and sent in extremely durable mailing tubes.For UK orders prints are sent via next-day Special Delivery. For international orders prints are sent via International Signed-For Air Mail. PRICE FOR BIRD HEART: £25 plus postage. Contact Keep Calm.

Offset Portraits : Ari Rossner

I've known Ari Rossner for more than 10 years, following his fine beauty photography as he created a distinct aesthetic and a long list of clients throughout Europe and the US. We've worked together on editorial pieces and shared a great deal of conversation on the role of digital photography and the various software abounding to get the most out of it. Ari asked me recently about a series of images he had produced involving offset plates. I went to his studio in Ivry sur Seine to see them and liked the way he'd taken an offset object and turned it into a painted object. Apparently others liked them as well; at a recent private showing he sold nearly a fifth of his production.

Ari Rossner is a beauty photographer who "dirties" his pictures to great effect. Here is how he came upon this brilliant new offset portraiture :

"At the end of a long night of printing a poster for a client, the printer removed the four large aluminum offset plates from the press and put them aside to be thrown away," he recalls. "It was so intriguing to me as a photographer to see my photo 'dirtied' with ink, I asked if I could have the plates. Once in my studio, I began to work with them, painting the surfaces with printers ink and oil paint. The results fascinated me. Since my photography focuses on beauty, a discipline that involves hours of detail work, to work directly on a metal plate unleashed a freedom I never knew before. My images received a second life."

These works are original in the sense they touch upon printing but are not prints and painting but are not on canvas. Ari has created a series of these plate portraits and exhibited them privately in Paris this past autumn, working across media to create something completely new a painterly manner. Lalande Digital Art Press produced a series of post cards for Ari's new series. See more of Ari's work here. Or e-mail Ari.

La Saison 2008: A La Carte

Put it on a card: Cartes de voeux, Christmas cards, seasonal notes.

Lalande Digital Art Press designed this special "Frogland" card for the year end card frenzy. Perfect for your company's best wishes, or your family's cards to anyone anywhere for 2008. Our cards can be personalized with your name and special message, or carry your company logo and address.

If you have your own photo, drawing or design, we can print those too, incorporating all your elements into an original card that will wow your friends and family. Say a photo of your house or your family along the Seine, the view from your rooftop, or your kids sporting the tri-colors...or even your kids' drawings. Let people know you take the Season seriously! Quantities: Minimum 25. Contact Lalande for prices and details. Let the season begin!

Pour votre cartes de voeux, clickez ici maintenant: Contact Lalande.

Street Marketing Controversy

French marketing consultant Emmanuel Brunet discovered our Vélo promotion cards in the Velib baskets around Paris and posted about it on his blog. After congratulating us on the initiative tying the retro-American photo of kids on their trikes and wheels to the "bobo" demographic of Velib riders, a number of questions about "street marketing" has arisen. La conversation sur le "street marketing" est devenue très animée. Voir l'article et les commentaires – c'est très interessant. De tout façon, les petits sur leur vélos nous ont livré des très bonnes reponses et commandes pour les cartes postales et tirages numériques.

LALANDE DIGITAL ART PRESS

Welcome to Lalande Digital Art Press! Bienvenue!

We are Your English/French Language Printers in the Heart of Paris.

We are a Paris-based Digital Printing Press for Artists, Photographers, Galleries, Boutiques, Small and Medium-sized Businesses.

We offer expert quality, rapid service, and that little extra you don't often find in Paris. We speak both English and French.

Ask us about post cards, brochures, posters, reports, business cards, catalogs, and large-format digital prints for artists, designers, photographers, galleries (limited edition prints on Arches acid-free paper), and boutiques.

We print on the Epson 9800 and Epson 9600 inkjet printer: Arches paper, canvas, Canson papers and Epson papers for your signed and limited edition prints from 1 meter wide to 10 meters long.

Call us for quick quotes or to discuss your project. Whether you need 1000 brochures, 2000 post cards, 50 one-meter square digital prints, or a catalog of your latest designs, or even a limited edition of your last novel.

Words and images, we understand both very well.

Our Business is Your Business. Tel: 01 53 68 16 10

Ask for Robert, Christine, Matthew or Francine.