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Among Austin printmakers, screenprinting reigns supreme - the sometimes messy process requires relatively little equipment and nicely compliments our rock and roll lifestyle. For every collective of anarchists kids squeegeeing patches in their kitchen, there is an Austin printmaker pursuing a different printing technique. Kat and Brad Murph are a pair of such printers, and in 2006 they founded Vertallee Letterpress, a design and print studio in East Austin. Letterpress is like screenprinting's older, more refined sister - the delicate embossing instantly gives paper a polished aesthetic. Vertallee provides custom design and printing for invitations, business cards, and all manner of ephemerata. Vertallee Letterpress are participating in East Austin Studio Tour - stop by their studio at 701 Tillery St. to see their work and try your hand at printing on their Heidelberg Windmill press. Vertallee's creative director, Kat Murph answered some questions for us about the letterpress process and the future of the printed word.

They’re a Swedish post-punk, new-wavey outfit who draw consistently positive examinations of their music. They trio’s music has been described as “the missing step between Joy Division and New Order,” and their sound often transitions back and forth between the thrum of synth and agitated noise-punk. Their debut, An Object, came out about a year ago on Sweden’s Novoton, which is home to groups like Antennas and Norma. The band, who refer to themselves as kraut-punk, is comprised of members of The Bear Quartet and Audionom.