Category Archives: pp_gocco

Name: Kathryn DiLego
Location: Los Angeles
Website: www.hauntedhouseofprojects.com

How about a brief introduction?
I’m an artist-illustrator and I like to make loose, limber, lanky, lovely line drawings and turn them into prints.

What made Gocco so special for you?
My husband surprised me with a Gocco printer for my birthday… and I immediately wished for a time machine so I could give one to myself as a kid! Gocco is ridiculously fun, creates professional results, yet is compact, simple and tidy.

Any tips on using a Gocco that you’d like to share?
1) Experiment. 2) Dispose of the used materials properly.

What’s your biggest accomplishment to date?
Cultivating a total absence of interest in accomplishments.

Share something random with us!
To support my art, I’ve had a variety of interesting jobs — from being an extra on TV shows to answering phones at a steel company.

Name: Cindy Tomczyk
Location: Chicago, IL
Website: www.cindytomczykart.etsy.com

How about a brief introduction?
I am an Illustrator living and working in Chicago. I also run a letterpress company called Paper Parasol Press and own a Vandercook #3 proof press. Being a first generation American I am always inspire by European Folk Art and design and try to incorporate both European influences and Americana into my work.

What made Gocco so special for you?
The handmade quality of it and that every print may be a little bit different. Living in a small apartment, gocco is really functional and easy to clean up!

Any tips on using a Gocco that you’d like to share?
Using tape on the base to help register a second color and cleaning and saving the screens. I usually put them in the freezer in plastic bags.

What’s your biggest accomplishment to date?
Probably attending the National Stationery Show in NYC in 2009 and launching a line of letterpress cards.

Share something random with us!
I love walruses and rhinos!