We are running low on T-shirts, and so it is time to come up with a new design and pithy expression for the back of the shirt.
As a tractor trailer pulled up to my driveway in the pouring rain this morning, I began to think that what we need is more than just a stupid pun to put on the back. Since our first book, “The Art of Joinery,” we’ve used Moxon’s compass as our logo. We’ve put it on hats, tattoos, shirts and books.
With the release of “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” in June 2011, we started using the A-square as a symbol for the book and its ideas.
But as I birthed each 35-pound box from the soaking blue uterus of tarps spread out over 3,000 books, my mind began to wander. Perhaps our logo should be this:
The good news is that all the books made it into our sunroom warehouse this morning without any water damage. It’s our third printing of Robert Wearing’s “The Essential Woodworker.” For this printing, we changed the color of the cloth and the cover stamp. I never liked the purple or eggplant or whatever it was on the first two printings.
So we switched to a navy blue with a white stamp. Other than that, the book is unchanged from the first two printings.
We are down to our last case of the purple books, so if you have a thing for purple, get out your credit card now. We’ll be switching to blue in about a week.
— Christopher Schwarz
As soon as I posted this, the WordPress software suggested that I add the tag “blue uterus.” What??
Great band name.
Agreed. But I’m quite afraid to type “blueuterus.com” into my browser.
I say go for it. You could corner the market on people searching for blue uteri.
Well a contest is always nice, especially if the prize was a deluxe copy of the Roubo books!!
Dude, nobody is THAT funny. Nobody.
Well technically you probably just laughed pretty hard at the idea of someone thinking they could gain a free copy for a T-shirt saying. So just put my comment and your reply on the back and you got yourself a shirt!
You’re deboss.
What’s wrong with a Roubo workbench? I seem to remember that you like them.
maybe a blue uterus should be your new logo ?
Not if you go on Google type it in and read only the first result!
“Between the giant lizards and the black tarps some people might think you were acting a little paranoid.” — Enoch Root
What about in honor of Grandpa’s workshop, the outline of a besaigue.
“It’s ok, we didn’t know what it was either.”
How about a nice almost naked female body? They have been used for selling cars and motorcycles etc. for the last many years.
Brgds
Jonas
PS old power tools look good too, like chainsaws for two persons etc.
Or “Hello, my name is __________, and I have a smoothing plane problem.”
I like the dividers.
Sweet and simple.
I’d leave ‘blue uterus’ alone. Too easy to parody as something like ‘Death Trap’, or similar.
Lost Art Press. Breaking droughts since 2008. [or whenever]
Lost Art Press- Your bank accounts worst enemy…
I was thinking that Lost Art Press could set up a system where if you wanted a book, say Mouldings in Practice, there would be a set amount of labor performed at LAP and you would get the book. Say 4 hours for a book, 3 hours for a Tshirt. I’m not sure of what amount of labor would equal what but you get the idea, You could call it a time store. I think it might work…
Lost Art Press-Building the future from the past…
I like it.
Crossed No. 4 Smoothing Plane and Spokeshave on the front.
“Lost Art Press – We like it shaved and smoothed.” on the back.
???
Lost Art Press – Electricity, We don’t need no stinkin electricity!
How about something you quoted before “But all we are after is to encourage you to build. Read. Then build. Think. Then build. Plan. Then build.”
Read, Think, Build ?
That’s a great one, simple, to the point and what it’s all about.
I like it. Well done! If they don’t use it you might find something for it.
Very good!. That would be my vote. (If I had a vote.)
Take a quote from ATC “Build stuff until [you] croak]”
Lost Art Press – Providing shelter from the downpour of machine driven woodworking
order LAP – shipLAP – backs your carcase.
Seems like everytime you get a big delivery, it rains. If you could figure out a way to put that power to good use, you’d be a gazillionare.
LAP ” The past is Present ! ”
With a nice picture of your #5
Heard a great quote on pbs from some gal south of new orlean’s grandma, after hurricane katrina. Her house was half washed away. She stood in the yard, planting potatoes. Her granddaughter asked “why are you out here planting potatoes?”
“When you don’t know what else to do, do what you know” was her reply…
Personally I think “Lost Art Press” already says a lot, I’d just add the dividers on the back and call it good. Sort of restates the obvious.
I recently pulled out a pair of dividers to layout the balustrade on a deck I built. You can probably imagine the looks I got . . .
I have a #2
Keep the dividers. They say so much about what LAP is about.
Which brings me to the new pithy expression: “Divide and Conquor”
Of the suggestions made I think you could immediately use two:
Read, think, build.
Divide and Conquer.
Dammit. I loved it when the cover was red. It isn’t half so cool now that I know the cover is plum.
Picture of a glue pot : LAP, stirring up trouble since _____
Picture of a pig and a carcass saw : LAP, promoting pork powered woodworking since _____
Picture of a headstone : LAP, passing along advice from dead guys since _____
Picture of a cut nail and a hammer : LAP, giving “Frenching” a good name since _____
Picture of a wooden fore plane and coarse shaving : LAP, shaving old groats since _____
Picture of an empty beer bottle because I’m out of ideas now and need a fresh one…
Back to the future.
When durability was not an inaccessible goal.
(When things were build to last)
Lost Art Press – Rewriting History