Our Team
Our Team
Bursting at the seams with intricate old printing presses, at first glance our studio might look more like a museum than a working studio. But it doesn’t feel like a museum – it’s a get-your-hands dirty, have-a-good-laugh kind of place, thanks to our passionate team of makers and a very charming toddler (the real boss around here). Meet them all below.
Heather Braun - Founder and Creative Director
As a kid, Heather loved to wrap gifts. Not content to just wrap the gifts she was giving, she would beg everyone in her family to let her wrap their gifts too. For her it was about playing with paper and ribbons – layering, combining, folding. Unfortunately, gift-wrapping is neither a major nor a profession, so she was forced to pursue other fields of study – First a degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Guelph, then Communication Design from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. After being given a small letterpress machine by a friend, Heather realized that many of her obsessions (textures of the natural world like chestnuts, tide pools, and the intricate details of flowers and vegetation...) suggested that letterpress might just be her calling. And so Porchlight Press was born.
What else can we tell you about Heather? She’s an avid kayaker and dabbles in playing the banjo. She’s a Star Wars nerd. She was born and raised in Vancouver, but lived in Paris for a spell. She’s a prankster.