Inspiration + Another Reason I Need an iPhone Already: The Ravishing Virtual Letterpress App

LetterMpress™ for the iPad available July 5th from Neighborhood Sandbox on Vimeo.

First off, I've been pining for an iPhone for a while lately, never to use as a phone—I hate cell phones with a passion—but solely for the ridiculous breadth of miraculous aesthetic possibilities, whether Instagram or the app to shoot video + make it look like 50s Eastman color used for a clip of a market in Japan set to Shugo Tokumaru's "Rum Hee" that I posted a few weeks back. Now this app for simulating letterpress comes via HOW, + it looks + sounds incredible:

"LetterMpress is a virtual letterpress environment for iPad that allows anyone to create authentic-looking letterpress designs and prints.

"The design process is the same as the letterpress process—you place and arrange type and cuts on a press bed, lock the type, ink the type, and print. You can create unlimited designs, with multiple colors, using authentic vintage wood type and art cuts. And you can print your design directly from LetterMpress or save it as an image for import it into other applications."

xo, B.