Bruno Press

Bruno Press is a legacy letterpress shop -inherited from my father. Letterpress printin' is how we roll. Come see the presses and feel the magic!
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For over 25 years, I’ve been printing beautiful things on vintage presses—keeping the craft alive while creating a space where community gathers, creativity explodes, and stories connect. The most rock-tasticly funny cards on the planet, posters, wedding invites,and so much more! This is where ink meets paper and falls in love nearly everyday!

08/28/2026

Artist Spotlight: Mary Bruno

Meet Mary Bruno of Bruno Press at the Millstream Arts Festival on August 30th in downtown St. Joseph!

Bruno Press is a bold, woman-owned letterpress shop creating hand-printed cards, posters, and art using antique presses, carved blocks, and a whole lot of ink, grit, and heart. Mary’s work celebrates the beauty of the handmade, bringing timeless printing techniques to fresh, expressive designs.

Come downtown, meet Mary, and discover the art of letterpress printing!

Downtown St. Joseph
August 30th

08/26/2026

NEW REDUCTION SERIES 🚨

Creating a dozen multi block reduction prints for a new apartment building in Waite Park! So Frikkin excited for this next level work!
Stay tuned for more finished works!
A special thanks to Sabrin Ali~ The beautiful Sabrine for modeling her drumming!

08/24/2026

SAVE THE DATE
Friday, September 11th 4-7pm at BP
Join us for the 5th Annual Make & Bake fundraiser at Bruno Press! A big ol block party here in Joetown with my pals from Flour & Flower and Korppi Coffee + Bakeshop!

With TONS of baddie Makers & Bakers, music, printing demos and a totally STACKED raffle! Come out to shop, eat and support this years fundraiser recipient: (Annex Teen Clinic) Annex Teen Clinic which helps young people take charge of their whole health, by providing equitable, accessible, and confidential sexual health services!

Check out this years vendors:
Redhead Creamery Fairhaven Farm Anne Meyer Songbird Kitchens Pluck Flower Farm Jupiter Moon Ice Cream SCSU Community Garden Heavy Petal Vintage Shark Shredder Bloom Styling & Events | Balloons, Event Styling, Photobooth _scarderby Gasinee (gay•sih•nee) เกศินี

Musical performance by Evonne Boom Bilotta-Burke

08/22/2026

CYANOTYPE WORKSHOP #2
Smashing success of the most gorgeous blue prints I've ever seen! First timers and old pros really blew my mind with their creative ideas and experiments! Thanks for the fun times!!!

08/17/2026

NEW CARD ⚠️⚠️

This NEW card was a bit of a team effort.

Brought to my attention by my BFF Rachael Jost who saw the musings of on IG. Hilarious stream of consciousness mostly sweary and right up my alley. I reached out to ask if I could make one of her posts into a card and she was like HELL YAH! Love when that happens. I created a super cute design with some Helvetica and Aimee Maychack helped out with a super rad

Come load up at Millstream Arts Festival at the end of the month or order yours today online:
https://www.mcbrunopress.com/cards/p/peri

08/12/2026

DID YA KNOW? Vol. 48 Corita Kent

The story of a Nun that took on the world with love, courage, and massive creativity! Thanks for paving the way for the rest of us ❤️

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08/08/2026

Badassery.

A super serious Victorian glass plate using the wet plate collodion process from my new friend Kary Janousek at Stearns History Museum ❤️❤️❤️

08/06/2026

A busy and extremely fun-filled afternoon educating some youths about the fantastic world of letterpress printing at the one and only Stearns History Museum! I think I might see some of these rascals as interns in 10 years!

Great teamwork from the BP interns: Sam, Brielle, and KC!

Address

154 5th Avenue SE
Saint Joseph, MN
56374

Telephone

(612)3272542

Website

http://www.mcbrunopress.com/

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