PULLING PRINTS Since 2006
ABOUT FP
On time every time
Quality that will excite you
Competitive pricing
The craft of fine printing is more than our bread and butter, it’s our passion. We as a team don’t allow work to leave or shop unless we’re happy to have our name and reputation attached. Your print job is handled entirely in-house from design assistance to digital color separations, film processing, screen burning, and all print production to completion. It’s all handled on site at our old town Goleta facility. Our chemicals are environmentally kind and, whenever possible, soybean based.
We whip out great looking small jobs on a small budget, and regularly manage large production jobs with quantities in the thousands. Much of our client base is comprised of local businesses for which we have crafted their comprehensive visual identity. We are artists first; every well executed print project includes attention to good design.
This is the core crew that handles it. Give us a call, send us an email, or stop by the shop! We’re happy to answer any questions you might have and we always love a good chat!
The Process
PRINT LOCAL
LOCAL BUSINESS IS THE BRIDGE TO A MORE SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY.
Local business owners make an enormous and positive contribution to the quality of life in our Santa Barbara community. Local businesses create jobs, and boost the local tax base, which in turn improves our schools, our parks, and the quality of life in our town. Most importantly, local businesses are invested in our community. Our city is healthy when we have a strong working and middle class. Local business is the bridge to a more sustainable economy.
Why are small businesses more efficient? Because they use more labor and less material resources. If you purchase a loaf of bread manufactured by a nationally known company with centralized production facilities, the cost of that product primarily consists of the fossil fuel and materials needed to create and run the machinery and to make and ship the bread. If you buy bread from a local bakery, the cost of the loaf of bread is based primarily on how much labor was required to make it. The environmental cost of the latter product is much lower. The same is true of screen printed items. When you print local with Foundation Press, a lower percentage of your cost goes to shipping and a higher percentage goes to quality oversight and quality of materials.
PRINTED BY HAND IN GOLETA THE GOODLAND
Meet Curtis Crawshaw
The owner, designer, artist, and printer with a BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. FP started in his garage in Goleta in 2006. Space was tight burning screens in the attic and reclaiming in a cut up trashcan from Marborg. Sorry Mr. Borgatello… Along with managing the shop and creating art for much of the apparel that gets printed here at FP, Curt designs and illustrates for client branding, promotional / marketing campaigns, and fine art projects. As of fall 2022. a new line of fine art prints and products are available for individual retail sale which is a new and exciting chapter! Come on in and check out our new merchandise!
MAKESMITH
MESA BURGER
OLD TOWN COFFEE
PADDLE SPORTS OUTFITTERS
POWELL PERALTA
REALITY
REI
SANTA BARBARA GUITARS
SANTA BARBARA RECORDS
SIMON & SHUESTER
SOHO
SWEETIES
THE CRUISERY
THE PALMS
THE RED PIANO
TOAD & CO.
UCSB
VELO PRO
WESTMONT
YELLOW BELLY
Design and illustration clients include:
BELCHING DRAGON
BOB’S BICYCLE
BOTANIC GARDENS
CAJUN KITCHEN
CITY OF GOLETA
CORNER TAP
CREAMINAL
CRUSHCAKES
DAVID CHASE CONSTRUCTION
DP ENGINEERING
DRIFTWOOD LEATHER
DUNE COFFEE ROASTERS
FAT CLUB
JULIENNE
KARL STORZ
LIGHTHOUSE COFFEE
LOCAL MONTECITO
LOS ANGELES WEEKLY
M.SPECIAL
MAKESMITH