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<p>Hold onto your undated planners everyone, Rosanna is here, and my, does she have a lot to spill! <a href="https://thepapernerd.com/support-shorthand/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="When I last checked in with her,">When I last checked in with her,</a> pre-pandemic, the founder of this letterpress brand and Los Angeles shop had just lost her husband and co-founder Joel to brain cancer, leaving their 18-month-old daughter Judith behind as well. </p>



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<p>Our stationery community is such that we rallied around Rosanna from around the nation however we could, but it was Rosanna&#8217;s fortitude and mindset that enabled her to triumph.</p>



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<p>Not only has Rosanna survived, she and <a href="https://www.shorthandpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="Shorthand">Shorthand</a> have thrived, with the latter growing according to the traditional definition of a corporation — &#8220;work being done by a group of people that cannot be achieved by an individual&#8221; — and she proudly and stably employs an ever-growing team of LA gig-economy creatives.</p><div class="inline-post clearfix"><div class="see-also byline">See also</div><div id="block-wrap-52146" class="block-wrap-native block-wrap block-wrap-23 block-css-52146 block-wrap-classic columns__m--1 elements-design-3 block-ani block-skin-0 tipi-box block-wrap-thumbnail ppl-m-1 clearfix" data-id="52146" data-base="0"><div class="tipi-row-inner-style clearfix"><div class="tipi-row-inner-box contents sticky--wrap"><div class="block block-23 clearfix"><article class="tipi-xs-12 clearfix with-fi ani-base tipi-xs-typo split-1 split-design-1 loop-0 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<p><br>Shorthand also has a new official name as well as its largest release ever this summer, exhibiting at the Dallas and Atlanta markets respectively in June and July and Shoppe Object in New York in August. So just like the office goods and stationery Shorthand lovingly creates and curates, there is a lot more going on here than initially meets the eye. This episode takes a deep dive into life, love and letterpress, and as such is not to be missed!</p>



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Rosanna Kvernmo of Shorthand
