We’re happy to share that the printed artworks and silkscreen prints are finally on their way to our crowdfunding backers.
The shipments include two distinct editions. Supporters of the Art Lover tier will receive an unsigned, open-edition print on Classic Matte A3 poster (29.7 × 42 cm), printed on 170 gsm uncoated paper. Supporters of the Patron of the Arts tier will receive a handmade one-colour silkscreen on fine 300 gsm paper, screen-printed by BeeInk Serigrafia and signed and numbered by Rocco Lombardi.
If you backed the campaign #
First of all, thank you. Your contribution made this project possible, and your patience gave us the time we needed to produce and prepare everything with the care it deserved, while continuing to work on Bonfire and look after our families.
We know the wait was much longer than expected, and we’re deeply grateful that you stayed with us along the way.
The first batch has already gone out, and the rest are being printed and sent over the coming days. We've packed and are mailing the silkscreens ourselves, while the open-edition prints are being produced and shipped by different workshops depending on your region, so delivery times will vary.
Need a tracking number? If nothing arrives in the next couple of weeks, or you'd just like to follow your parcel, email us at team@bonfire.cafe and we'll chase it up.
Still need to send us your shipping details? A few backers haven’t sent theirs yet. If that includes you, don’t worry, there’s still time: send us your name, shipping address, and anything else needed for delivery, and we’ll arrange your shipment.
Workshops are coming next #
We’ve sent surveys to the backers whose tiers included a workshop. Next we’ll start offering time slots and scheduling the first sessions. If you missed the survey, just email us at team@bonfire.cafe and we’ll sort it out. We’re looking forward to meeting you, exchanging ideas, and exploring Bonfire together.
A collaboration from the beginning #
Bringing these prints into the world was a shared effort, sustained by the cooperation between Bonfire, artist and illustrator Rocco Lombardi, and the artisans at BeeInk, a screen-printing and graphics workshop rooted in the Casa dei Beni Comuni in Belluno.
Rocco’s collaboration with Bonfire goes back to the project’s very beginnings. He created the Bonfire logo and many of the illustrations that have accompanied us throughout the years. His vision and style have never been merely decorative: they have remained a source of inspiration and an important reference point for Bonfire’s identity and roots.
For this edition, that long-standing visual collaboration entered a new phase. Rocco’s artwork was brought into the hands of BeeInk, whose craft and experience transformed it into a physical, hand-printed edition. Bonfire and its community provided the support that allowed the process to unfold.
Each of us contributed different skills, time, and care and the work could not have existed without the cooperation among all three. Our heartfelt thanks go to Rocco and BeeInk for their commitment, generosity, and patience throughout this collaboration.
These prints are more than rewards. They are a tangible part of the collective effort that continues to sustain Bonfire, an effort rooted in the belief that communities should be able to shape and govern their own digital spaces.
From the screen to the silkscreen #
Silkscreen printing, also known as screen printing or serigraphy, is a hands-on printing technique in which ink is pressed through a fine mesh screen prepared with a stencil of the image. When an artwork contains multiple colours, each one is printed separately, one layer at a time, using its own screen.
BeeInk work in process made during the creation of the bonfire screenprint
The process gives every print a rich, tactile quality. Small variations can emerge as the ink is applied, meaning that each copy carries subtle traces of how it was made. Rather than simply reproducing an image, silkscreen printing turns it into a physical object shaped by materials, gestures, and time.
Rocco work starts emerging from the ink
For this edition, Rocco’s artwork travelled from its original form into the hands of BeeInk, where it was prepared and printed by hand as a limited silkscreen edition. It felt like a fitting process for Bonfire: collaborative, material, and built layer by layer.
A few signed prints left, if you'd like one too #
Several people have asked whether it would be possible to buy the prints outside the original crowdfunding campaign. So today we’re also opening a shop on our website. It stocks exactly one thing: this artwork, in a limited number. No factory-produced t-shirts you’d wear once and forget, just a print made properly, by people we know.
It’s the silkscreen edition: 35 × 50 cm on fine 300 gsm stock, signed and numbered by Rocco in an edition of 250, rolled into a protective tube. Shipping is included in the price, to addresses in the continental EU and the UK.
Every purchase directly supports both the ongoing development of Bonfire and Rocco Lombardi's art and helps us continue building digital infrastructure made for and governed by communities.
The shop page has more photos of the artwork from Rocco’s first pencil sketches through to the last sheet pulled at BeeInk, if you'd like the longer story.
Explore the prints in our shop
The silkscreen featured on @samvie@chaos.social's wall.
Thank you once again to everyone who backed the campaign, shared it, contributed to the artwork, helped with production, or patiently waited for this moment. We couldn’t have done it without you.
We hope you’ll enjoy receiving these prints as much as we enjoyed making them. We can’t wait for them to reach your homes, and to meet some of you in the upcoming workshops.
Once yours is on the wall, it would be lovely to see it. If you post a photo, please tag @bonfire@bonfire.cafe on the fediverse.
Thanks
Ivan & Mayel
