Hi there! My name is Kristina and I’m a graphic designer, web designer & letterpress printer based in Jefferson, Maryland where I live with my two cats, library of design books and magazines and 1,000 pound printing press conveniently located in my garage.

I love all things design, but my absolute favorite projects to work on are wedding collateral. Everything from the save the date’s to thank you cards, down to the very last detail, I can create a cohesive image for your big day! Please read on for more information about me, the services I offer & to check out my portfolio of design work. Please contact me if you’d like a price quote for any design, letterpress or other services I offer. Thanks for stopping by!

So, what does ‘anitsirk’ mean, anyway?

It’s my name, spelled backwards, pronounced ann-it-surk. It’s just a little something I came up with during my undergraduate days as a Public Relations major, Graphic Design minor at Shippensburg University. A handful of design classes at Frederick Community College and three years at University of Baltimore, I received my MA in Publications Design in May and it’s transformed into the name of my budding business!

How’d you get into letterpress and where on earth did you get a printing press?

I’ve known about letterpress for a while. I think I first ‘oohed and ahhed’ over it while looking at wedding invitations with a friend in 2006. Two years later, a class I took at UB required us to go on a printer tour and present a report to the class. Since I had been on a few offset printer tours in the past, I asked my professor if I could tour a letterpress print shop. She said yes and after taking my tour, I was hooked.

I immediately began searching for a press of my own using the briarpress.org classifieds. After posting a ‘want’ ad, a gentleman responded to tell me he was looking for a new owner for his 1896 Golding Jobber #6. Three months later, as Ithaca, New York awoke from a bitterly cold winter, my parents, roommate and I made the trip there, strapped all 1,000 pounds of 114 year old cast iron onto the biggest U-Haul trailer we could find and made the journey home to Maryland. The press was delivered to my parents garage and for 6 months I, along with others, worked to strip it of it’s tan paint by means of toxic chemicals, sandblasting and good ol’ fashioned elbow grease, and repaint it matte black. Their garage currently serves as my print studio where I work to produce the designs myself and others create into beautiful hand-printed pieces of art