Round I for custom letterpress business cards for the fabulous Maylin Brito who photographs infants and really captures everything innocent, pure and peaceful about babies! Her idea was to create a mark or icon out of an acorn because out of small seeds come great trees. Can’t wait to see where we go with this on the next round of proofs.

These letterpress notes shipped back in December and I’m just finally getting them posted. I liked designing this job because it was a note that could be used for any member of the family. I had to try to incorporate all the names, make it not too girly, and keep it simple. A lot harder than I thought, we went through a plethora of rounds before it finally came to something everyone was happy with! Enjoy :)

Letterpress printed on a 5.25″ Square card on 110# Thick paper. Copper ink and typeset in Wade Sans Light. The ornamentation was found in an old vintage illustration book I scored at an antique fair a few months back.

Remember these letterpress anemone escort cards and favor tags? Well I just got word back from the bride that they are being featured on her photographer’s website Shira Weinberger along with her amazing wedding! Here’s a sneak peek below, be sure to click through to see the whole wedding!

Photography courtesy of Shira Weinberger.

Yet another fabulous photographer, Jessica Morrisy had me create not just one custom business card, but two for her two sister companies. She already had her logo, so I created layouts and pulled elements from the brand to add texture and content to her designs.

The first card is for her main business, the second for her boudoir photography clients.

Jessica was really great to work with, as she already had a good idea about what she was looking for so things went quick on the design end. I like how the direction from Jessica indicated that both of these be similar, yet still have their own feel to each brand. It was a little more challenging to keep them in harmony with each other. Check back soon for photos of the final printed piece!

These letterpress escort tags were shipped out a few weeks back for a bride who was doing a modern holiday wedding. Her colors were brown, plum and cream.  Angela came to me with a few ideas in mind: she was having an Italian and travel themed wedding and was looking for a few different options to explore in the designs. One option was to explore a vineyard illustration, rough and modern as they were celebrating at a great winery and she thought that might be a way to bring across the location in the details.

She had also mentioned the possibility of doing a luggage tag or passport styled tag as they were going to name their tables after cities in Italy – you know, Rome, Tuscany, and the likes.

Our last option explored was to reflect her main floral arrangements, which were going to be made up of roses and anemones so we obviously explored that route as well.

In the end she went with  the anemone favor tags and escort tags that would be hand-calligraphied with guest’s name and table number on them.

Letterpress printed on 110# soft white Lettra in a grey/brown and matched with 1/8″ satin ribbon.

I realized when organizing my photos last night that these totally haven’t been blogged yet!

Letterpress business cards, printed 2/1 on 600gsm/220# Lettra paper. Designed by Deuce Creative for the client and then printed via letterpress.

Here are the final printed business cards for Michelle Cottrell. As stated in the design brief and proofs, Michelle wanted something classic, elegant and professional. We ended up combining two of the initial designs to create the final business card. A touch of calligraphy and a non-offensive script (who can’t resist Bickham Pro with all the fabulous ligatures), these cards were letterpress printed on 110# Lettra paper in 2 colors of ink: Latte/Brown. I’ve been noticing a lot of trending toward those colors lately. Cut as a 2.5×2.5″ Square with 1/4″ rounded corners, they turned out quite fancy I think!

If you’d like some business or contact cards of your own, I generally do all orders custom and would love to work with you! Right now I’m taking about six custom business card jobs a month on top of other work, so get your estimate request/order in quick for same-month processing. Click to see more cards that I’ve done and their corresponding design proofs!

to you for being patient and giving me a much needed break from blogging. It’s been killing me to not be able to post every day but when push comes to shove, I had too much work (and cute children) that needed my attention. With that said, I’ve been slowing things down a little here so as to gear up for the holidays and now that I’ve had some time to breathe I’ll be resuming more regular posting. I can’t believe how much work has gone through the studio these last few weeks so expect some fun new product and posts over the holiday season. Thanks again for being patient, you’ll be rewarded for your loyalty!

These letterpress thank you tags were shipped for a bride who is having a holiday wedding. She was looking for some letterpress escort tags and favor tags that were NOT Christmasy. We came up with a simple anemone/wild rose looking tag. Printed on 110# paper with rounded corners in brown ink, I’m thinking I’m going to have to print another set for myself to use as thank you gifts for family when birthdays roll around!

Michelle is a translator in Singapore and came to me in need of a letterpress business card to use with her services offered for translation in both traditional and simple Chinese. She wanted the cards to look professional, and reflect the quality work she had to offer. Requirements were that she didn’t want it to be too girly (ie, too much flowers) with simple typography, script for the name and possibly a monogram. Color schemes she wanted to explore were pink/brown and latte/brown. Below are the proofs for the first round!

These tags make me happy. At 1″ x 3″ with hole punch and 1/4″ chocolate ribbon, they are perfect for gifts this holiday season. Letterpress printed on SUPER THICK 220#/600 GSM in chocolate ink, they’ll add a substantial albeit mini touch to any recipient. Available in the shop, you’ll get a set of 6 letterpress tags (2 of each). Enjoy!

This is option 2 for Nicole and Chris, option 1 first shown here. This invitation design came about because Chris wanted to see how we could make a typographic invitation with flourishes work. Here’s an alternate layout with some calligraphic examples of flourish and border that was popular during the time-period. Layout is non-traditional in that there are large and small variations of the border, however typography is kept simple and centered on a horizontal format.

Chris came to me after feeling too much pressure to create his own announcements for his wedding (he’s a designer too) and needed some outside help with getting it right. The brief behind the event was that it needed to reflect Victorian as the wedding was dominantly following that era. It was a Christmas wedding with all things you can imagine of a typical Victorian Christmas. Sleighs, snowflakes, vintage illustrations, amazing historical mansion, you name it – if it was going to be Victorian, elegant and spectacular – they had thought of it. Below is one of the proofs explored. This was a traditional vertical layout with the emphasis on the silhouetted initial. Another dominant design element used in Victorian publications and invitations of the time period, this is the most minimalist of the three proofs presented. This one didn’t make the cut but I just had to show how beautiful the ornamentation was on the initial. Color scheme:

Remember these?

Well I still have a slew of them sitting around! Seeing that I just printed a bunch of them as 4Bar notes for a custom order, I thought I’d offer a set of each to my twits (yes you!).

If you want some, look over to the top right (and ignore my avatar that hasn’t been changed out) and click on my twitter button. Then go twit this EXACT phrase:

GIVEAWAY! Git yer #letterpress Brownish/Greyish 4Bar Aspen Notes + gift enclosures from @DingbatPress, twit to win #DingbatPressAspen

THE GOODS:
1 set of 6, 4bar notes and 1 set of 10 gift enclosures! Letterpressed with love, by yours truly! Random winner will be selected by Friday at 12pm MST.

UPDATED: And the winner is…