In 2022 I made a poster for Pi Day. It was pi to the first 10,000th place, color laser printed on a 10.5 x 17″ sheet of some kind of fancy paper and each digit was color coded.

This year I did a follow-up project. Even in 2022, I originally wanted letterpress print the poster. I sent out for estimates, but it was too expensive. But now, I have access to a letterpress studio, and have begun relearning the craft.

And so I spent the first two weekends of February 2025 with master letterpress printer and print studio owner Bryan Baker and my old friend Brian McGee cranking out the Pi Day 2025 poster on letterpress. It is the same size as before (so it matches the first edition), but is now printed for real, with proper Gutenberg technology, with each digit inkily mashed down into the paper.

Behold!

But wait — there’s more! These prints… glow it the dark!

To commemorate the occasion, I made a video. I used a chunk Hard n’ Firm’s song “Pi”, which is what initiated me into this whole Pi Day celebration thing and inspired these posters.

I’m in the process of setting up an Etsy store. Once I get that set up and figure out the best way to ship these things, I plan to sell them. It should happen by the end of the week. Contact me if you’re interested!