We have put together a lovely range of customizable holiday cards. They are designed so that clients can choose their own photograph to incorporate into the card.All of us here in the studio adore this gorgeous faux bois design. Perfect for Christmas and especially perfect for letterpress: the impression makes the paper actually feel like woodgrain!
- Jana
Kate just inked the press with the most wonderful, rich, saturated blue. It looks like the perfect summer sky. It reminds me of International Klein Blue - a color first mixed by the French artist Yves Klein.
She has been busily printing some lovely, simple ceremony programs that we're sending out very soon - it's going to be a nice crisp weekend for a New York wedding!
- Jana
We have been printing loads of gift tags lately. They are a lovely simple way to dress up a gift. As well as our year-round range, we also have a suite of holiday-themes tags:
We had lots of fun wrapping up (fake) gifts to showcase the tag range:
I was chatting to Breck the other day about the presses in our workshop. We have quite a few of them - all different shapes and sizes. She was telling me that sometimes when she has bought a press and installed it in the studio, she has discovered an old remnant of the previous life of the machine. Tucked away behind the rollers or under the chase, she has found a bit of printed ephemera from when the press was last operated.Here's a photo of something she found in the press we use daily:
It's funny to think that before we started using the press to print wedding invitations and business cards it was used to print garment tags! It's lovely to imagine the press in a whole different workshop, being operated by a different master printer. I reckon our presses have been through a great many reincarnations! Here's that garment tag tucked in amongst the parts of our Golding Jobber No. 7:
- Jana
We were so pleased to be asked to print a batch of custom Christmas tags for a London store. Caramel Baby and Child specializes in gorgeous clothes for little ones! Here are some photos of the finished tags and the printing process. And if you want to check out Caramel's wares, there's even a store in New York!
- Jana
We are so pleased to be featured in a Japanese book all about neighorhoods in Brooklyn:
We love the vintage-style map on the front of the book. And we like all the photos of Sesame included inside...
- Jana
Kate and I had fun making this short video. Each time Kate uses any press in our workshop, she carefully oils all the moving parts. It's fairly easy to figure out where to put the oil - you move around the machine and look for small holes - then just pour a few drops of oil into each one. Learn more (including how we use chopsticks in the studio!) by taking a look at the video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOFxIr9mxtk
I wanted to post a photo of the letterpress trucks. These are at either end of the rollers. Check out the difference between the old version and the newer items! You can see the effect of age on these trucks.
I asked Kate if we are going to throw away the old trucks but she explained that they should still be 'fit for purpose'. They just need a really good clean - it's going to be a fairly labor-intensive mission! We'll post more photos as we clean them up!
