Win It: Roll&TumblePress.


This week’s giveaway is from my neighbors in Arkansas, Roll&Tumble Press. They’re also a huge design crush of mine. Roll&TumblePress is Christie and Caleb, partners in art and life who were born creative. They primarily print art and gig posters with the occasional holiday card thrown in for good measure around the holidays. Inspiration comes from quirky southern things, phrases from their grandparents, musical phases, artists of the past, old architecture and signs, typography, and eavesdropping among numerous other things.

The Process. Each poster begins with something as simple as an image or phrase. Color palette, layout, size and typography are discussed. Caleb begins to illustrate, the line drawing then is transferred to linoleum or wood blocks. These are then hand carved, sometimes by Caleb sometimes by Christie depending on the “style”. Caleb prefers clean and precise, while Christie is more folksy. Once all blocks are carved the type is chosen from the cases, using almost all antique wood type and some vintage lead type. The inks are then hand mixed. Once it’s time to hit the press, they hand crank their vintage Vandercook letterpress once for each color on each poster, talk about labor intensive! The things we do for love.

Roll&TumblePress are giving away a set of their Eat & Drink letterpress posters. I’ve had them bookmarked for weeks! They’re available in three colors for you to choose from. The Drink poster is perfectly Halloween-y to me and would also be great over your bar area. And Eat is obviously kitchen material for sure.

To Enter, Comment and Tell Me:
1. About the first poster you remember adorning your bedroom walls with as a youngster.
2. Leave your email address.
3. Do it all before Monday, August 30th at 9am CST.

The Fine Print: Please leave only one comment. Those who do not leave a valid email address will be disqualified. Winners will be selected randomly using random.org and contacted Monday, August 30th.

81 Comments
  • PDX Bride

    August 23, 2010 at 5:48 pm Reply

    I am sure it was some picture of a kitty or puppy I got in an elementary school book order.

    ccjt24 at gmail dot com

  • katherine

    August 23, 2010 at 5:58 pm Reply

    Oooh, love these! And I'll have a new kitchen to decorate in a few weeks, so it just all works out. 😀

    I'm sure it wasn't the first, but the first I *remember* was a picture of Andre Agassi torn out of a magazine. I thought he was the bee's knees.

    grammargirl77 – gmail

  • Sara R.

    August 23, 2010 at 6:05 pm Reply

    These are great! They would look fab in my kitchen.

    When I was a tween, my room was plastered with Nirvana posters. I mean, they were everywhere…

    research.librarian [at] yahoo.com

  • Flesworthy

    August 23, 2010 at 6:05 pm Reply

    The first poster I remember hanging in my room was my Michael Jackson Thriller poster. Ahh, the 80s…

    (flesworthy at gmail dot com)

  • Elise

    August 23, 2010 at 6:05 pm Reply

    It was a giant framed poster of Pocahontas. Was and still obsessed with Native americans.

    emr.89.love@gmail.com

  • Claire Gibson King

    August 23, 2010 at 6:18 pm Reply

    I totally remember getting Teen Beat Magazine and ripping out the pictures of Hobie from Baywatch and putting them all over my closet door. I was so in love with him!

    Amazing letterpress Posters!

    kingclaireg@yahoo.com

  • Anonymous

    August 23, 2010 at 6:23 pm Reply

    my first poster was a photograph of several kittens climbing over books and flowers. it was glossy and on cheap paper and yet i couldn't live without it so i scraped together $7.50 in change to buy it at the school book fair.

    kbenoit@alumni.nd.edu

  • Sommer

    August 23, 2010 at 6:28 pm Reply

    The first poster I remember hanging in my room was a Bambi movie poster.

    sommerdterry (at) gmail dot com

  • Danielle

    August 23, 2010 at 6:34 pm Reply

    First poster… most probably a huge centerfold of Jonathan Taylor Thomas, complete with cool-kid plaid flannel shirt…

    danielle.m.solomon@gmail.com

  • JM

    August 23, 2010 at 6:34 pm Reply

    Oh dear, it may have been New Kids on the Block…

    agent414 – gmail

  • Ashley

    August 23, 2010 at 6:35 pm Reply

    the first poster I remember hanging in my room was the backstreet boys. I loved them! (Still do, but now as a guilty pleasure :-D)
    ashley.mouton@gmail.com

  • Betsy

    August 23, 2010 at 6:35 pm Reply

    oh, i'm sure it was of kittens!

  • my33people

    August 23, 2010 at 6:38 pm Reply

    I used to have a poster of Menudo, a boy band from Puerto Rico in my bedroom. It was huge too. Now I'm kind of ashamed of that little fact 😉

    jenmata@gmail.com

  • caitlin.d

    August 23, 2010 at 6:53 pm Reply

    The things we do for love is right, these are gorgeous!

    Remember those fuzzy posters that you color in? I think you can still get them actually. Anyways, I remember loving those and being ecstatic when a new one came my way, I'm sure I hung them proudly on my walls 🙂

    c.dvorachek at gmail dot com

  • Lindsey Marie

    August 23, 2010 at 7:00 pm Reply

    Loved the Roll&Tumble Press site!
    I'd have to say my first poster i remember was a poster of the Spice Girls, i was totally obsessed with them and went to about 5 of their concerts, owned the cds and movie. loved them!

    lindseymellison at yahoo dot com

  • Jennifer Galicia

    August 23, 2010 at 7:18 pm Reply

    My first 'poster' was a candy bar wrapper. I think this was before kindergarten. At the time I shared a room with my sister. She'd hang up posters from those teen magazines of New Kids on th Block and Madonna and what not. When I was mad at her I'd tear them down when she was at school. We shared a room till I was in the 1st grade, she's 4 years older than me.

  • ellice_inspired

    August 23, 2010 at 7:20 pm Reply

    my bedroom walls consisted of neon green crayon markings from when I was little! When we first moved into your brand new house with white, crisp, freshly painted walls, I got my set of crayons and went to work on the walls! 😀

    ellice.s.kim@gmail.com

  • heidi

    August 23, 2010 at 7:21 pm Reply

    mine was a golden retriever puppy picture, thank you book order.
    glad that my style has evolved to where i would LOVE one of these!

    hebusbebus @ hotmail . com

  • local

    August 23, 2010 at 7:24 pm Reply

    My first poster was a delish shot of Patrick Swaze from Dirty Dancing. *oh, the memories*

    toriluvr@hotmail.com

  • Suzanne Duket

    August 23, 2010 at 7:39 pm Reply

    I plastered my walls with those giant posters of puppies in baskets and kittens with balls of yarn from the elementary school book fair. Yikes….

    sumadu (at) gmail.com

  • Megan

    August 23, 2010 at 8:02 pm Reply

    a garfield poster, saying 'open a good book' with the book atop his head. oi. 🙂

    kamber8@gmail.com

  • Jules

    August 23, 2010 at 8:04 pm Reply

    I honestly can't remember what my first poster was as a child. I'm sure I had a magazine tear of the backstreet boys or nsync or something, although I wasn't every a crazy huge fan. haha so cheesy!

    julie.a.cosby@gmail.com

  • lslkmiller

    August 23, 2010 at 8:05 pm Reply

    I'm pretty sure my first bedroom poster was of Peter Frampton. Oh boy!
    lslkmiller@yahoo.com

  • Kiersten

    August 23, 2010 at 8:23 pm Reply

    I was never particularly into posters as a child, but I did make a mural out of party confetti on one of my walls. It was not a lot of fun when I decided to take it down later… thousands of little stars.

    -Kiersten
    kbq@umich.edu

  • Angie

    August 23, 2010 at 8:35 pm Reply

    I remember it vividly. Kirk Cameron. He was just so dreamy 😉

    admcgovern@gmail.com

  • Ashleigh

    August 23, 2010 at 9:13 pm Reply

    My first poster was Guns 'n Roses in 5th grade. My parents were adequately appalled.

    ashandshaun at gmail dot com

  • sam

    August 23, 2010 at 9:16 pm Reply

    Three sweet little kitties.

    samannmiller at hotmail dot com

  • Carolyn

    August 23, 2010 at 9:22 pm Reply

    a sweet penguin poster. but these eat & drink posters are much more my style these days 🙂

    whiskwriterepeat {at} gmail.com

  • Taylor-Ann

    August 23, 2010 at 9:27 pm Reply

    The very first poster up in my room was NKOTB (New Kids On The Block). Aw, I just loved them…AND gues what? They are touring again next year! Awesome. can't wait.

    Great comment idea!

    email: taylorann.b@gmail.com

  • caryn the designer

    August 23, 2010 at 9:48 pm Reply

    My first poster was definitely an Aladdin movie poster. Loved it for years!

    carynschafer (@) gmail.com

  • Mark

    August 23, 2010 at 9:57 pm Reply

    The first one I can remember was an NFL poster that contained every year's Super Bowl logo to date. It was awesome to say the least.

    fuzzpocket7 at gmail dot com

  • Kelly

    August 23, 2010 at 10:18 pm Reply

    Does it count as a "poster" if I made it? It was a painting of The Little Mermaid that my dad helped me make. It hung in my room for years. Last year my parents moved and they found it in storage – they had it matted and framed as a Christmas present! I almost cried!

    proficiscamur {at} gmail {dot} com

  • Anonymous

    August 23, 2010 at 10:27 pm Reply

    It was a poster of the cover of "Let It Be."

    jep4n at virginia dot edu

  • kate

    August 23, 2010 at 10:41 pm Reply

    Um um I can't remember…… i think it was ummmmmmmmmm… nope I got nothing but I still want to win please.

    Kate

    medea5455@yahoo.com

  • Meg Blocker

    August 24, 2010 at 12:33 am Reply

    I was (well, am) a musical theatre nerd, so the first posters I put on my walls were for Phantom and Les Mis.

    megblocker at gmail dot com

  • Katie R

    August 24, 2010 at 12:53 am Reply

    I remember buying all the cute animal posters from the book fair 🙂

  • Laura Gerencser

    August 24, 2010 at 2:33 am Reply

    My first poster was of a white horse, that I had torn out of a magazine! For years afterwards I was obsessed with putting pics of horses on my walls!
    purple banana 1991 at gmail dot com

  • Casey

    August 24, 2010 at 3:37 am Reply

    First Poster: The Lost Boys, a vampire movie from the 80s. I was a weird kid.

    clynchdesign@gmail.com

  • Emily Lynn

    August 24, 2010 at 5:47 am Reply

    The first poster I remember in my room was a framed 8.5 x 11 screenshot from The Lion King. I was obsessed with all things lion around the age of five. These are much more suitable to my tastes these days!

    Emily Harris
    emily789@live.missouristate.edu

  • Rebecca

    August 24, 2010 at 9:23 am Reply

    My mom got me a print of a painting at the Honolulu Academy of art.. it was a big mess of rainbow colors, with a hot air balloon! Wouldn't go with my room today, even if I could track it down, but those eat and drink posters would look great in my house! I love them!

    beccaloew at gmail . com

  • angela

    August 24, 2010 at 11:26 am Reply

    One of the first posters I had was of Brad Pit from Legends of the Fall. I think I had like 3 of them. I was a bit obsessed.

    email: 2bahealthyfit@gmail.com

  • Emily

    August 24, 2010 at 12:03 pm Reply

    I'm shamed to say…Garth Brooks. emayman at gmail dot com.

  • Anna

    August 24, 2010 at 1:45 pm Reply

    I had probably five or six Disney movie posters. They were all laminated (thanks Mom!) and my favorite was the Beauty and the Beast poster. 🙂 These Roll&Tumble prints are lovely!

    annacaricobryant at gmail

  • paige w

    August 24, 2010 at 1:54 pm Reply

    a Michael Jackson poster- the cover of "Bad". my dad won a carnival game for me at the fair, and let me pick the prize. thanks dad!

  • Amy@OldSweetSong

    August 24, 2010 at 2:28 pm Reply

    First poster? None other than Ralph Macchio.

    Deal. With. It.

    amy (dot) ferguson (at) me (cot) com

  • gr8fulg

    August 24, 2010 at 2:33 pm Reply

    It was a Leif Garrett poster, not that you would know who that is. 🙂 I felt so cool, so Tiger Beat hip, so in luv…thanks for the memory…

    glynis

    gr8fulg@gmail.com

  • carol

    August 24, 2010 at 3:21 pm Reply

    one of my first posters was a full page color newspaper ad for jello "Put a Jello Out Tonight" that went along with a tv commercial with a catchy jingle. i can still hear the jingle in my head! that was in the late 60's. i still have it… i love graphic art, although i didn't go into that field for a living (sometimes i wish i had!)

    carol (trickey5@embarqmail.com)

  • Maeghan

    August 24, 2010 at 3:26 pm Reply

    Those are adorable!! I am going to be moving soon and they would look lovely in the new place. 🙂

    My first poster was all 3 Hanson brothers… I'm not proud of this. hahaha.

    maeghan.hadley@gmail.com

  • Veronica

    August 24, 2010 at 4:19 pm Reply

    These are so lovely.

    I'm pretty sure I used tape to paste up a poster of a kitty cat (with orange stripes) OR an adorable poster of Jonathan Taylor Thomas (remember him? 🙂 Those were the days!

    veronicalealucas@gmail.com

  • Erin

    August 24, 2010 at 4:25 pm Reply

    Pretty certain it was a life size poster of Jordan Knight, affixed to the back of my bedroom door, that I kissed every night.

    ew32766@gmail.com

  • karey m.

    August 24, 2010 at 4:27 pm Reply

    life size poster of john mcenroe.

    curly hair, sweatband, wooden racquet…genius.

    why did i ever take it down?!

    xoxo. loved this.

    kareymackin@hotmail.com

  • g1zm0

    August 24, 2010 at 4:44 pm Reply

    Michael jordan and other basketball posters. Haha.

    megankaupke -gmail

  • Everton Terrace

    August 24, 2010 at 5:02 pm Reply

    A large image of ballet slippers in black/white. I've never done ballet so I'm not sure why I had it but I even took it to college with me.
    jeanette@evertonterrace.com

  • Dinah

    August 24, 2010 at 8:36 pm Reply

    A beautiful print of woodland creatures, all huddled-up under a big tree. I won it for being the top student in my accordion class! Nerd. 🙂

  • Renaissance Soul

    August 24, 2010 at 8:42 pm Reply

    My Mom painted my room avacado green, all the rage in the late 60's. So it isn't suprising my first poster was of the bright yellow smiley face :)! I still like smiley faces, not so much the avacado green!
    The prints are loverly!! Would give them a good home!!

    shelley@tkinnison.com

  • Claire

    August 24, 2010 at 11:54 pm Reply

    This might not be the first poster I ever had, but it is the first one I remember–a poster of the US Women's World Cup Soccer team, with Mia Hamm and Brandi Chastain and co. It hung on my closet door for years after I stopped playing soccer.

    Thanks for doing the giveaway!

    clairabella09 at gmail dot com

  • Anonymous

    August 25, 2010 at 12:14 am Reply

    It was probably a New Kids on the Block poster, since I was an avid fan as a child! Prior to that, I can't really remember any posters.

    sassy121880@hotmail.com

  • Lynda

    August 25, 2010 at 12:44 am Reply

    i think the first poster i had on my wall was of this japanese pop group.

    [lyndagp at gmail dot com]

  • Lauren

    August 25, 2010 at 2:16 am Reply

    The first poster I remember choosing myself was a fold out from Tigerbeat or some other tween magazine. It was River Phoenix, in a white t shirt. I havent thought about that in years, kind of wishing i still owned it.
    astermonkey@gmail.com

  • Anonymous

    August 25, 2010 at 2:40 am Reply

    OMG! Mary Lou Retton! Haha!
    Amanda
    aclegg17@gmail.com

  • Zoe

    August 25, 2010 at 11:15 am Reply

    I was crazy about Bon Jovi when I was 12 – had posters of him all over the walls of my bedroom!

  • Robin Kernes

    August 25, 2010 at 2:37 pm Reply

    Bjork Post album cover poster.

    rdkernes@yahoo.com

  • Anonymous

    August 25, 2010 at 4:51 pm Reply

    Def Leppard…Rock On!

    Bremner233@aol.com

  • agoodbuild

    August 25, 2010 at 9:24 pm Reply

    the ever classic cat hanging from a tree branch that said "hang in there"

    yep. so proud. haha!

  • Angela

    August 25, 2010 at 11:05 pm Reply

    First poster I chose to hang was of Patrick Swayze following his re-introduction in Ghost.

    angtburg at gmail dot com

  • Terri

    August 26, 2010 at 12:22 am Reply

    Wow…I can't remember! I think it may have been Strawberry Shortcake.

  • jessica lynn

    August 26, 2010 at 1:04 am Reply

    such an awesome giveaway!!
    if i must admit it, my walls were plastered with those tear out posters from tiger beat and all of those teen magazines. i think jonathan taylor thomas was the first one to grace the walls. oh boy.

  • Jen

    August 26, 2010 at 1:29 am Reply

    The first poster I remember was Debbie Gibson!! Haha…

    hoopie4@gmail.com

  • Anonymous

    August 26, 2010 at 2:06 am Reply

    Kevin Bacon after Footloose.

    fivedavis@shaw.ca

  • ashley

    August 26, 2010 at 5:51 am Reply

    hmm…that's a tough one! i think the first poster i ever put up was this cool graphic for the band rocking horse winner!
    thanks for the giveaway!

  • kenny c

    August 26, 2010 at 5:53 am Reply

    my future wife and i would love this for our new home!
    i think the first poster i put up in my room was blink 182!! 🙂
    kchanner(at)llu(dot)edu

  • cerebral e

    August 26, 2010 at 1:45 pm Reply

    These are gorgeous.

    My first poster was of Ewoks. I guess I was about 5 years old with Return of the Jedi was released.

    elissa[at]iinet[dot]net[dot]au

  • Shauna

    August 26, 2010 at 3:16 pm Reply

    Love these!

    Not sure if it was the first but I remember having a NKOTB poster as well of my fave boy, Jon (I liked the quiet nerdy one). 🙂

    burr727(at)yahoo(dot)com

  • blonderland

    August 26, 2010 at 3:41 pm Reply

    Love these! My parents put up a poster of a white duck, where all that was visible was its yellow feet and black eyes. I honestly don't remember the first thing I put up on my own.

    lblonder [at] hotmail [dot] com

  • Anonymous

    August 26, 2010 at 5:08 pm Reply

    Love these prints, I'm such a typography nerd.

    Pretty sure the first poster I hung in my room was a kitschy color pencil drawing of a unicorn's head with lots of flowers in it's mane. Probably got it from the school book fair and probably thought it was the coolest ever.

    fallsoundsofrain (at) gmail (dot) com

  • M and C

    August 26, 2010 at 5:29 pm Reply

    I'm pretty sure it was New Kids on The Block.

    micahandcatherine@gmail.com

  • Rebecca Sliter

    August 28, 2010 at 12:43 am Reply

    can't remember! i think it was a rolling stones tongue..

  • Lindsay

    August 28, 2010 at 7:59 pm Reply

    Was, FOR SURE, a poster of NKOTB. It matched my sheets with their pictures on them. My pillow with Donnie Wahlberg's face was also my first kiss.

  • alexkeller

    August 29, 2010 at 2:52 pm Reply

    it was the 70s – so that white kitten on a pink background – mom still has it in her basement, i bet …
    alexpetryna[at]yahoo[dot]com

  • Samantha

    August 30, 2010 at 1:47 am Reply

    When I was little, I had a poster of N'sync on my wall & thought I would marry Lance Bass one day…would even give him goodnight kisses. Ahahaha.

    Thanks for offering the giveaway!
    sningram@mail.presby.edu

  • Lalo

    August 30, 2010 at 1:59 am Reply

    For sure it was a Paula Abdul poster that was taken out of a magazine.

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