Last week, the Bialosky + Partners team headed to Zygote Press—a fine art printmaking studio in Cleveland’s St. Clair-Superior neighborhood—for our annual end of year team building celebration. The morning began with breakfast and the unveiling of the 2014 Bialosky + Partners Year in Review timeline outlining all of the exciting accomplishments and changes that have occurred in the office throughout the year.
Welcome to Zygote Press!
After breakfast, the Zygote team lead us in a workshop exploring three different printmaking processes—screenprinting, letterpress, and free form mono-printing.
Zygote Press's Liz Maugans demonstrates the mono-prininting process for the BPA team.
At the screen printing station each member of the team got the chance to print their own t-shirt to show off their Bialosky + Partners pride. Afterwards, Alan Hipps and Brian Kuck got a chance to go head to head against the Zygote team in an intense speed-printing contest—unfortunately the Bialosky team could not compete with the pros and lost out to team Zygote.
Brian Kuck mans the screen printing station.
On the letterpress, our team printed a limited edition Bialosky + Partners 2014 infographic featuring all of the offices’ achievements over the past year. Additionaly, we got to be a little creative and set our own type from Zygote’s extensive collection of vintage wood type.
Bialosky + Partner's 2014 Year in Review hot off the press.
The Bialosky team got to stretch their creative muscles even further at the mono-printing station where many of us used various textural objects to create festive cards.
Tyler Gentry tries his hand at mono-printing.
At the end of the afternoon, the team gathered together for a photo op with Zygote's house pet, Inky before heading to lunch. All in all, the day was a great way to flex our creative muscles and reflect on the exciting year that was 2014.
Bialosky + Partner's newest team member, Inky.