Just a quick blog post with a close-up of a gorgeous invitation. We really like how this design is both elegant and informal. The Strangelove font used for the couples' names keeps it from looking too stuffy and the blind embossed palm tree motif adds another subtly, tactile layer to the letterpress technique!
Sometimes clients ask us to include an illustration that they provide on their printed materials. As long as the design is suitable for letterpress, we are happy to do this. It's always great for us to see the work of other artists and craftspeople.We printed these pretty notecards which feature a hand drawn illustration of the client's home. These look really smart in cool gray ink and they're extremely personal and bespoke.
We just finished printing this wedding set for a lovely couple who are getting married in Italy. We're jealous: all that wonderful food, gorgeous views and la dolce vita!They decided to have the set printed in our matte gold ink: we love how this hue is the perfect blend of elegant and understated.
They selected a few of illustrations from our image library to give an extra level of customization to their invitation:
We love the little heart lockets and we also really like how the simple heart silhouette looks as a blind-embossed pressed image:
Without ink, it just highlights the quality of the impression.
Congratulations Maegan and Eric!
We just finished a new design for our line of greeting cards. Our various floral layouts are always very popular so we worked on a version with a pretty arrangement and a really contemporary mix of dark, neutral ink and bright, fluorescent yellow.
We love how this card straddles the vintage theme with 21st century colors!
Here are some photos that show the new design alongside one of our other VERY bright layouts:
We've been posting a few teasers of components of this set but now we are excited to reveal the full suite of items. We love how this couple has allowed Betsy Dunlap's stunning calligraphy to really take front and center attention. The whole invitation just feels like a beautiful illustration and is extremely elegant.
The rich indigo blue also helps to make this design pop.
And we've already waxed lyrical about the bespoke envelope liner that features an imprint of a crocodile!
We hope this couple has a wonderful wedding on Kiawah Island!
We are totally obsessed with all things letterpress (obviously!). We adore the delicate, beautifully detailed, elegant invitations and stationery pieces that we print, one-by-one, by hand, in our studio. So isn't it an amazing juxtaposition to see the rough tools used to produce this work? We are constantly grateful for our big, cumbersome, yet perfectly calibrated presses.Here are a few pics that are a little different from our usual product shots:
Remember the beautiful Save the Date we printed that featured a ship in a bottle? Well, we recently finished printing the actual wedding invitation and other items. The bride and groom chose to continue with a nautical theme and selected a few more illustrations for their stationery.
Anyone who is familiar with our products will know that we have a soft spot for that whale illustration. And here, it just adds a touch of whimsy to the wedding invitation. We like the interplay between the border and the rest of the card too.
We love how all the pieces look piled up in the photo above. The nautical knot is another of our favorite motifs.
