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WE’VE RE-BRANDED!

 
 

Welcome to Fluoro Press! This re-brand has been a long time coming. I’ve been wanting to create a separation between me (Steph Ford, the artist) and the studio for a while now, because it has become so much more than just me, it has grown to be more of a community space, which is really what I always dreamed of. With the new year, and the new studio, it just felt like the perfect time to finally take the plunge. Now that this differentiation has been made, I hope that it will become more of an open-ended space that you all can kind of take claim of. Thanks to all of you who have been on this journey up until this point, I hope this change isn’t too confusing! If you have any questions please contact me. I have so many new and exciting things planned for this year, so stay tuned!

-Steph

P.S. I have done my best to make sure everything (web pages, socials, email, etc.) has been updated- if you notice any mistakes or lone mentions of “StephFordStudio”, please let me know! All new correspondences will be sent from “Fluoro Press” but anything sent to old emails will still be seen.

What’s a “Fluoro”?

It’s just short for fluorescent, no big deep meaning. One of the things that makes Riso printing so special is the unique colours it can print with, namely their fluorescent colours. And if you know anything about me, it’s that the fluorescent pink is kind of my signature colour.

Who is “we”?

Well, it’s still just me! But using singular, first person pronouns as a “brand” feels kinda weird. So now, we use “we” and it can include both me and Betty, because she does all the hard work around here anyway. And we can throw Wormona in the mix too, as our personality hire.

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About

 

Fluoro is a Risograph press and the studio of Steph Ford based on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.

The studio opened in 2023 (under the name StephFordStudio) as Vancouvers first open access Riso print studio. During her studies at Emily Carr University, Steph fell in love with the process of Risograph printing and wanted to continue working with it after graduation. But, there was nowhere in the city that offered a DIY printing option, so she bought a machine (Betty) from Craigslist and worked out of her living room apartment for a while before finding a studio space or Main Street. The intention of the studio was always to create a community centred space where people could come, learn about Riso and do their own printing.

The studio offers workshops, print services, open access printing and now has a small shop space in the front full of Risograph prints, zines, cards and more!

Along with running the studio, Steph still makes time to work on her own practice. Fully embarrassing the imperfections that come with Risograph printing, she defies clean and minimalistic modernist aesthetics, placing importance on revealing the artist's hand while using the brightest colours known to man. Outside of Riso, Steph also focuses her practice on painting and fibre arts.