These letterpress business cards were for the fabulous Kerri McConnell who is another really fun and incredible photographer. Man I love you photographers! Kerri was looking for something, fun, fresh and modern (as you’ll note in her by-line). She was really drawn to the coach logo, something with a little vintage flair with a hint of modern clean lines and typography.

We utilized Bernhard Fashion and Estilo to give it an updated typographic vibe with a hint of Art Deco. Kerri’s old website had a lot of pink and she didn’t want to stray from that color as it’s one of her favorites. In the end we came up with a great registration black and pink design utilizing polka dots and a double-stroke border reminiscent of one of the old Coach logos. Thanks Kerri for being such a doll to work with, these were a really fun project for me to design and print!

Printed via letterprses on Lettra 110#/300GSM paper with 1/4″ rounded corners, 2 ink colors. Custom designed, you can get a sample set for yourself here to see all the different cards I’ve done and then contact me for an estimate for some for yourself!

Adam deals in rare books and manuscripts. He was looking for letterpress business cards along the line of something simple and one color. Here’s what I came up with for the first round:

These letterpress calling cards were done for a client who LOVES to fish. He wanted classic black type and a dingbat. Although a little larger than dingbat size, this fish is sure to catch your eye.

I think they turned out well, don’t you? There’s nothing like rich registration black printed on crisp white paper. I used to hate printing black until I learned the art of mixing registration black – back in black baby!

These tags are for a dress exchange start-up looking to rent/exchange couture dresses for events, weddings, galas or whatever suits your fancy. The client needed letterpress business tags to ship with dresses : here we are in the first round of design phases.

After watching Project Runway and seeing Robert Best, it was amazing to see how his work translated into the collectible Fashion Barbie over the last ten years. Since I now have a little girl old enough to want to play with Barbie I have started looking at all the fabulous fashion that she’s worn over the years. This project was great to get me back into the fashion spirit and search the archives of all the beautiful dolls out there. Because really, isn’t Barbie the epitome of couture and celebrity?

Pulled from old and new, these tags are my own interpretations of some of my favorite couture dresses over the years, some from Barbie, some from fashion designers – derived, revised and finally illustrated by yours truly.

In wrapping up autumn week I thought I’d show you this experiment with edge painting. I know there are a few processes, all of which seem tedious. I recently happened upon someone who had mentioned they like to use a stamp pad/ink pad to achieve this effect so I thought I’d give it a go.

With the Lettra paper, it seemed to give great coverage on the sides however absorbed pretty quickly into the paper and onto the front. As you can see on the fanned cards, there is a little bleed that carries through to the front. The bane of every edge painters existence. I think with these cards it looks great as it adds a nice distressed element however don’t think I’ll be trying that technique on invitations any time soon.

If you’d like to score a set of 10 of these, comment to win!

The GOODS: 1 set of 10, 3×5″ cards paired with red envelopes.
Letterpress printed in black ink. Edge painted with red ink.

1 comment per person, randomly selected sometime Sunday October 3rd. Good luck!

UPDATED! Congrats KATY! Lucky number 13.

What happens when you get these and put them on letterpress goods?

You get this!

Available now in the shop here and here! Corner rounding now available on small orders, convo or email for details.

This isn’t the final printed piece but a press proof on test paper. Calligraphy done by the lovely Kathryn of Della Carta Calligraphy. This is a sneak peak of a custom process where I generated designs and layouts, they were passed on to Kathryn and then passed back for final layout touches. I really enjoyed working with such a beautiful pen-woman! And the letterpress, it was sweet being on press expirementing with different papers. More to come on the details of this project over the next few days!

So you’ve seen the Mod Mimosa in the shop for awhile, here’s the rest of the collection: Mod Pulsar, Mod Foliage, Mod Mimosa, and Mod Starburst. Available in individual sets of 6 and paired with black envelopes.

This has taken me a little longer to get posted but congrats to Cassi, she’ll get the following Butterfly Note Set! I’ll contact you Cassi to get your mailing address! Check back tomorrow for a sweet Real Wedding proof post.

Remember this post here in which designs were showcased from the proofing rounds for Fit to Be Tied? Well these shipped out early last week and I loved how they turned out with the pattern on the tie and off-set typography. This client was super to work with and had a great sense of design herself so it went pretty quick.

Generally business card orders go through the studio in about 3-4 weeks for a custom design and printing for under 500 cards, however these went through in about 2.5 weeks as this client was easy to please. Thanks Brandi for the buisness and I hope they bring you lots of business!

Here is a custom project that is getting ready to go on press. These are the 3 designs presented after initial research and discussion with the client about her needs and the look she wanted to convey for the business. On the left column are the one color options, on the right are the 2 color options.

The main requests were to keep design consistent with her website, and that it needed to be simple and modern with maybe some pattern. Check back in a few weeks to see what she ended up going with and for photos of the final printed piece!

I don’t know if you’ve seen the Victoria’s Secret Pink Organic line but I just love the handwritting on the packaging. It reminds me of a little something I’ve done myself ;)

Cost for this Mother’s Day package? $5/Smile Card since Mom’s can always cheer us up, and Victoria’s Secret is offering a special right now of 2/$20 on these lovelies!

Photo found first at thedieline.com ::: the world’s #1 package design resource.

Or English, or Spanish, or Greek or whatever because some one is having a Bad A$$ Birthday!

These shipped a few weeks ago but I didn’t want to post until it got a little closer to the event, as I didn’t want to ruin the anticipation of such a cool birthday invitaiton. I LOVE the fuchsia envelopes/ink with the black that the client requested, it turned out super cool like I’m sure her party will be!

Have a great weekend and Easter holiday, and next week look forward to some awesome custom designed “real brides” posts as well as the beginning of “ideas for mother’s day.” If you are anything like me, it takes a while to decide on what would be the perfect gift for mom so we can go at it together!