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  • Modern Calligraphy letterpress wedding invitation by Dingbat Press
  • Liz Ackley, calligraphy calling cards by Dingbat Press
  • Little Miss Emma cupcake business cards. Design + letterpress printed by Dingbat Press.
  • Rexburg LDS Temple Print, 14x19
  • Circque de Soleil Wedding Invitations, letterpress and design by Dingbat Press
  • Archives

  • August23rd

    October Wedding Proofs

    Posted in: Wedding, announcements

    These were presented to a bride who was looking for a bright fall wedding suite for her event in October.

    Option 1: Maple Leaf wedding suite
    Maple Leaf Fall Wedding Invitations

    This concept plays off a beautiful photo of a wedding cake with the maple leaves that the client sent over. Seeing that she had mentioned wanting bright colors, we explored oranges and warm coral/red on this option. We were going for elegant with the calligraphy typeface however wanted to explore some unique layouts for this. The inner envelope would be lined with the maple leaves liner, and the outer envelope is the cream, matching the paper stock used for the invites. The inner envelope is in poppy and both envelopes would look beautiful addressed with chocolate ink for her guests.

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    Option 2: Heart Thumbprint wedding invitations

    Fingerprint Heart Wedding Invitations

    We LOVED the thumbprint heart concept that the client presented and thought it would be a good design to add in the requested plum color and the orange. Because we wanted to place emphasis on the thumbprint, we wanted the remainder of the invitation to invoke a minimalist feel with beautiful large margins and flowing typography to tie it in all together. Since the thumbprint is such a personal element of a human and no two are the same, we wanted to maintain that feel in the invitation with a simple typeface reflecting classic school penmanship. There are added dingbats throughout the layout as well, reflecting back on the symbolism of the heart and tying in the typography with the emblem. The envelop liner on this design is an overprint of purple ink on purple paper, to give the envelope a really stunning pop when opened. It sort of adds the detailing in the other pieces without making it look too elaborate or over the top.

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    Option 3: Modern Dahlia wedding invitations

    Dahlia Wedding Invitation Proofs

    The last option was based off some client provided photos of the dahlias in a beautiful peach color. We wanted to bring in a monochromatic feel to this invite, emphasizing the oranges and peaches that are evident in that photo. Again we wanted to explore a more unique approach to the invitation layout with the typography. The flower pattern is carried across all the invitation pieces, and will make such a beautiful impression when printed.

    If you were getting hitched, what suite would you go for?

  • July22nd

    Lush Sugar: Layout & Finished Cards

    Posted in: branding, business cards

    These cards were designed for Alexi of Lush Sugar. I was so excited when she approached me needing business cards incorporating her logo as she has some BEAUTIFUL accessories great for every-day or special events that she creates by hand with amazing attention to detail.

    Lush Sugar II

    AlexiAllenProofs

    Alexi provided logo and our goal here was to help with layout and typography. These designs were a collaborative effort by myself and one of my designers Sarah. We worked on unifying Lush Sugar with some pattern that was clean and modern and Sarah did a great job making it all work together with Alexi’s logo. The ring pattern used in the final card seemed to hit it right on the mark with the links in her logo. Pantone match on press for Alexi and hand trimmed, these cards were super fun to print in these awesome colors. Thanks Alexi for being so wonderful to work with, and for letting us print your cards!

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    Letterpress printed on 110# Lettra. Layout incorporated with client provided logo, 2 ink colors.

  • July13th

    Kelly Totten, final biz cards!

    Posted in: business cards

    You may remember Kelly’s design proofs that were posted back in June and my subsequent raves about her money strategy skills. Well I present you with the final piece! Kelly helps me keep my greenbacks in order and to pinch my pennies. Thanks for being such an awesome money strategist, Kelly!

    KellyTottenBlog

    Printed on 110# Ecru paper with matte copper, matte metallic brown and a faux emboss on the cracker jack logo. Sized at 2.5 x 2.5″ square with 1/4″ rounded corners.

    To get yourself a set of letterpress business cards from Dingbat Press, contact us!
    To see more of our business cards that we’ve designed and printed via the
    letterpress process please see our letterpress business card Flickr set.

  • May6th

    Tags: Guppiez/Dandelionz

    Posted in: branding

    So you may remember the explorations for Jacqueline in her Guppiez branding package – or what about the Dandelionz identity exploration for her mass produced children’s clothing? After much feedback and refining, below we have her interior tags for each brand.


    Included with the branding package and style sheet was logo, logo elements, typographic selection, and web colors for the web designer. She also received her logo files as working Adobe Illustrator files so she can use it for application and promotion in other media outlets.


  • April12th

    Monogram Baby Announcements

    Posted in: Custom

    Every once in awhile I get the opportunity to work with another designer and its such a pleasure to see what they come up with. These letterpress baby announcements were designed by Andrei for his new baby. The monogram is so retro and unique. I loved the un-traditional color scheme as well. Thanks Andrei for letting me print these for you!

    AndreiAnnouncements

    If you are interested in getting some custom baby announcements I’d love to work with you – request a quote here for more info on pricing!

  • April2nd

    Small Branding Package

    Posted in: branding, business cards

    Jacqueline is the creator/designer behind an amazing array of organic children’s clothing and came to me looking for a business card design and small branding package. She was initially drawn to the Baby Shark  letterpress notes and wanted a guppy fish developed in a similar style specifically for her brand. Below are the first round designs with business card layouts and guppy options to consider, including color suggestions body alternates and pattern variation. She was looking for something, clean, fun and playful with a hint of sophistication.
    Jacqueline RI Proofs

  • March8th

    GIVEAWAY! Small Branding Package

    Posted in: GIVEAWAY, business cards

    Salt City Bakery Group

    Andrea came to me via Etsy wanting a set of the Letterpress Sprinkles Cupcake Tags adapted for a brand system for her bakery/patisserie. A local baker in Salt Lake City, Utah she also needed something that would cross over into the online arena where she could promote her brand/shop she’d opened on Etsy as well. In the end, the designs had her two business names but we kept with the same styling and typographic nuances so that there would be visible recognition if one was searching her out but couldn’t remember a business name (like me sometimes ;) These were both letterpress printed on 110# paper in one color of ink. The business cards measure standerd 2×3.5″ and the tags measure 1.5×6″ with 1/2″ rounded corners and 3/16″ hole punch.

    Salt City Bakery Tags

    After completing this project, I started thinking…it’s hard to turn away orders because someone has a small budget and only needs a starter pack of business cards to get going. I really love branding for people and wanted to provide a way for it to be cost effective for my clients as well as practical on the design and  printing side. So I’ve looked at a few different options and have come up with a solution. Many times when someone comes to me, they are a new entrepreneur on a tight budget, looking for a small branding package. As a result of wanting to contribute more to my customers initial investment, I’m now offering smaller minimums if purchased in a branding suite. Here is the first of a few new packages I’ll be unveiling over the next two weeks.

    THE SMALL LETTERPRESS BRANDING PACKAGE! And to announce the launch, I’m GIVING AWAY one set this month (March).

    THE GOODS:
    1 set of 100 standard business cards – square corners. Letterpress printed, 1 color ink front sided printing. Printed on 110# Lettra paper.

    1 set of 50 tags (either 2×2″ or 1.5×6″) – 3/16″ hole punch and rounded corners. Letterpress printed, 1 color ink (same as business cards). Front sided printing. Printed on 110# Lettra paper.

    1 banner OR shop avatar OR blog masthead provided in a .jpg file

    1 logo provided in a .jpg file

    All custom designed for you (or incorporating your own logo) – 3 digital designs presented, 2 rounds of revisions.

    LASTLY, HOW TO ENTER: To be counted you must do the following:

    1) blog about your business and why you want the branding package. Goals, inspiration or how you got started are all great ways to introduce your business to me.

    2) link back to The Dingbat’s Agenda ( http://blog.dingbatpress.com) and my shop (http://dingbatpress.etsy.com)

    3) come back to this post and comment with a link to your specific blog post (links to your blog home will be disqualified, it must be your specific post)

    Lastly, the more you promote the giveaway, the more I’ll know you want it. Tweet it, Facebook it and show the world you know you want it! All entries need the first three points above to qualify for selection, the rest of the social media plugs are up to you!

    Contest ends March 30th, 2010 at 12:00am MST – I’ll choose a winner and announce it on April 1st!
    Once a winner is selected and notified, they must respond within 1 week to claim their package. Production will be 4-6 weeks from start to ship date.

  • February11th

    Mod Wedding RII Proofs

    Posted in: Wedding

    After narrowing these mod wedding invititations down from the round I proofs and punching color to a brighter scheme, we explored some typeface options. This next round we looked at Memoir and Handsome Pro Classic along with illustration that gave a little more cirque d soleil and 60s vibe. The bride still can’t decide whether to have the layout done by a calligrapher so I tried to reflect in type as close as possible to what style she was going for.

    The bride also wanted to explore incorporating a peony motif into one of the designs so here’s what we came up with on that regard. I can’t wait to see where these go for the final piece. They are going to be simply stunning when plated and printed letterpress.

  • November19th

    Colors in my Sidebar!

    Posted in: Custom

    Note to the right that some changes are going on in my side-bar. To the right you’ll notice a lovely Colorful array of dingbats. If you click on any of those lovelies you’ll be directed to all the work I’ve produced with those ink colors, so pick your flavor and check it out! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

  • September30th

    Orangealicious!

    Posted in: Kids

    Orangealicious LetterpressSo the other day I bought Evelyn a little PollyPocket size Strawberry Shortcake doll and didn’t realize until this evening that I have unleashed the girlyness that I thought didn’t exist in the tomboy 2 year old. This Strawberry Shortcake came with an 11 minute DVD that I have now memorized and am often referring to when in conversation with said 2 year old. All I hear about is Strawberry, Plum Pudding, Blueberry Muffin and Orange Blossom (among others).  As I typed this post I found myself humming the obnoxious theme song Strawberry, Strawberry, Straw-berrrr-yyyyyyyyy Short.Cake! in an even more obnoxious teeny-bopper falsetto voice. Bleh. And then I realized that Wednesday is devoted to Orange on Autumn Week with PoppyTalk and thought that I haven’t shown you this orangalicious letterpress announcement that shipped this month. Here’s to girly girls with a hint of orange blossom ink. I love it when baby announcements stray from traditional pink towards something a little more sweet.

    Puppy Love Baby Announcements

    And because it’s an orangealicious day I thought I’d share some Orangealicious Etsy favs with you. Enjoy!

    Etsy
    Buy Handmade
    DingbatPress

  • September2nd

    CARD OBSERVER!!!

    Posted in: business cards

    I’ve been featured over at Card Observer for Wendy Torello’s business cards!!! Head over there and check out all the other totally rad cards, I can’t believe I made it!

    wendy card observer

    For some custom business cards of your own head over to The Shop.

  • August22nd

    Real Business: Wendy Torello Final

    Posted in: business cards

    Internet has been sketchy all week as I’ve been traveling and making connections with buyers ;) – thus blog world has been scarce this week for me so I thought I’d send over some eye candy for the weekend. (yes I’m a slacker, i don’t often get scheduled posts up)

    I know you’ve been waiting patiently for these. Here’s the final printed piece from Wendy’s business cards – click to see proofs and brief. Wendy was a doll to work with and I’m really happy with how they turned out. I finally purchased a corner rounder as well and Wendy was the lucky first recipient of the corner rounding option!

    Torello Letterpress Business Cards

    As I was talking to my mom this week about what orders were coming through the studio, she asked me why I loved business cards so much. As I got thinking about it, I came to the conclusion that I liked the challenge that each client presented to me in trying to represent themselves on a business card. I don’t like to offer cookie-cutter designs for business cards for the fact that I feel that it is more fun to work with my clients to create a unique piece. In turn, they get something that is all their own. My pricing is a little more than some competition and a little less than others but what I think sometimes people miss when they are looking at the bottom line is what they are getting in the package. All orders that come through the studio have the option (and it’s built into the price) to get a custom design for their cards. That’s like free branding on a business card scale to all of my clients! Thanks again Wendy for being such a great customer!

    To see the most recent posts on other cards I’ve branded and printed via letterpress please click on.

  • August11th

    Letterpress gift tag GIVEAWAY!

    Posted in: GIVEAWAY, Kids, Tags

    So I’ve had a couple of retail orders go out recently and these were some of the hot items that I printed a lot of. From the Animalia children’s and baby collection these gift tags are great for a baby shower gift or to adorn tea cups, prizes, napkins or whatever suits your fancy. Introducing:

    elephant letterpress tags

    Elephants, Ava. as a set of 10.

    butterfly letterpress tags

    Butterflies, Ava. as a set of 10.

    shark letterpress tags

    Sharks, Ava. as a set of 10.

    frog letterpress tags

    and Froggies, Ava. as a set of 10.

    To win just comment below what your favorite animal is for a chance at one set of each!
    The GOODS:
    1 set of each of these tags (10 tags/set) in each pattern (40 total).
    2×2″ letterpress tags with 1/4″ rounded corner and 3/16″ punched hole.

    Giveaway ends Midnight on Thursday the 13th of August, TIMES UP! winner will be drawn at random and notified via email as well as updated on this post!

    CONGRATS SUSAN!

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