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• Enchanted Rock Letterpress Wedding Invitation

  When our dear friends Lara and Michael called to let us know they are getting married this October in the Texas Hill Country, I insisted on designing their invitation.
  Lara is a photographer and Michael is a picture editor and both have successful careers in publishing so after several emails and phone conversations about colors; the [...]

  Posted on Aug 27.08 to design, invitations, letterpress   

• Branching Leaves Letterpress Wedding Invitation

  Here is another letterpress wedding invitation I designed for a bride and groom getting married in Nebraska City, Nebraska.
  Nebraska City is the Home of Arbor Day so the bride wanted a reference to trees.
  I’m not in Nebraska often and when I am, I love the big open skies so for Jo Ella and Brian, I [...]

  Posted on Jul 07.08 to design, invitations, letterpress, wedding   

• Letterpress Business Cards

  They arrived this afternoon.
  My husband needed business cards so we decided to ping Leslie Topness who was offering the letterpress special I shared with you a few weeks ago and get some cards printed.

  Keeping it simple and to-the-point was a goal. They came out beautifully. (Thank you Leslie…)
  The typeface is Musee by Dino dos Santos [...]

  Posted on Feb 19.08 to design, letterpress, typography   

• Looking for a Letterpress Class in Portland or Seattle?

  About this time last year, I was obsessed with finding a table top letterpress and finding a class in order to learn how to use it. Fortune allowed me to find both.
  Priorities though, have changed and I still have the “Letterpress Classes” folder of bookmarks and thought I would share them with those of you [...]

  Posted on Jan 11.08 to classes, letterpress, portland, seattle   

• Letterpress Printing Extravanganza: Stern & Faye + Leslie Topness

  This just inbox: Leslie Topness will be a letterpress printing resident at Stern & Faye for the months of January and February 2008.
  What makes this so special? It’s an opportunity to refresh those business cards, calling cards, promotional cards or posters for a film or play-in-the-making with the beautiful, tactile wonder of letterpress printing!
  Leslie is [...]

  Posted on Dec 27.07 to design, letterpress   

• Table Top Letterpress Finds a New Home

  Today the table top letterpress printing press purchased earlier this year has found a new home.

  The decision to part with the press was not an easy one. After all, finding an ‘affordable’ one, then having it shipped out was not easy given the demand and the risks involved with shipping across the country.
  Still, it had [...]

  Posted on Dec 19.07 to letterpress, printing press   

• Last Chance for Satsuma Press 08 Calendars

  There are only 10 Satsuma Press 2008 letterpress calendars left as of this afternoon.
  It’s a great gift for the designer or letterpress fan on your list. If you aren’t convinced by mere words, here are a couple of happy snaps of my calendar:

  The printing is crisp; the designs are fresh, and it feels oh so [...]

  Posted on Dec 15.07 to letterpress   

• Miami Garden Letterpress Wedding Invitation

  Ahhh… Just thinking about a Miami wedding in January warms things up.
  Since the wedding will take place in a garden and the bride and groom wanted “something Miami without being cliché” I decided to go with metaphors rather than use images of flowers or the obvious palm trees and art deco buildings.
  The gates of the [...]

  Posted on Dec 13.07 to design, invitations, letterpress, wedding   

• Finally, New Rollers for the Table top Press

  It has taken me nearly 8 months to get around to getting new rollers for the American Equipment Printing Company 6-1/2 x 10 table top press. Even more, it took 4 months to even know I needed new rollers!
  Sigh.
  With Lynn Russell’s gentle push and encouragement, I finally sent one of my rollers and a truck [...]

  Posted on Oct 04.07 to letterpress