2025 Holiday Card
The image is from The Virgin and Child Seated by a Tree, 1513, by Albrecht Dürer, courtesy of the Princeton University Art Museum. Everybody Loves My Baby is a popular and jazz standard song composed by Spencer Williams in 1924, with lyrics by Jack Palmer.
Blackletter calligraphy by Raoul Martinez
After scanning and cleaning up the calligraphy, I composed my holiday card using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
Polymer letterpress plate by Crown Flexo Graphics, Antioch
Printed on white BFK Rives 270 gsm paper with Western 4/D Panther Black ink at Grendl Löfkvist’s studio in Oakland.
Printer: Vandercook SP15 test press
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Calligraphy by Raoul 
Wow, and thanks for sending!
Andrea V. Grimes
Program Manager
Book Arts & Special Collections
San Francisco Public Library
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San Francisco, CA 94102
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Raoul,
I always look forward to your card! I haven’t gotten it together to send cards for a few years but you are an inspiration.
As ever,
Jody
Jody Meese, MFA http://www.jodymeese.com http://www.jodymeese.com/ IG @milplumaslettering https://www.instagram.com/milplumaslettering/ IAMPETH President, 2020 & 2022 IAMPETH Certificate Committee Chair
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Thanks for this, Raoul. I love knowing sources and process 🥰
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