Both sets letterpress printed on 110# Lettra Paper. A6 (4.5×6″) and paired with matching envelopes.

Kelly’s is a great example of the square flap envelope. You can get yourself a letterpress personalized set of notes then pick typeface, dingbat, ink and envelope color. Once your purchase is made, I’ll generate a digital proof for you, then upon approval, these will go on press and ship usually within 12-15 business days!

Remember these East Bay holiday cards? Well, Grace contacted me wanting a letterpress fine art print done with the same design. Thankfully with photo-polymer plates I was able to just whip out the scissors and trim the holiday greeting off the plate and meet her request. Initially I wanted to do this as a portrait print, however in the end the landscape orientation just suited so much better. This is the only decent photo I got after about 50 different variations. I’ve decided that shooting prints are a lot harder than smaller stationery pieces. Enjoy!

Sold signed and numbered. Edition of 8, available as Letterpress Bay Bridge Print, 8×10 in the shop now! Letterpress printed on Fabriano for a beautiful crisp impression. 3 colors, red/silver/pool. Measuring 8×10″ and ships in a chipboard mailer for protection.  Sold UN-framed.

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:

Happy President’s Day! I know sometimes this holiday passes us by, especially for those that are working but I just wanted to pay tribute to all our amazing presidents that have lead our wonderful country since it’s beginning. I feel so blessed to be a recipient of freedom, justice and liberty. My grandfather was a patrol plane commander in WWII and reading his journal is amazing and humbling. What a legacy he leaves for me and my posterity through that journal and his sacrifice to fight for his country. I made cards similar to these for him for Christmas one year, and then later decided to list them as a personalized note.

These Vintage Plane letterpress cards were a gift to a couple honoring their golden anniversary. Suiting since this husband also was a pilot in World War II like my grandfather. To see other variations on this card click on the link above to be directed to the Shop. Letterpress printed on Arturo mould made paper with a deckle edge. 4Bar (3.5×5″) and paired with matching envelopes.

These Poppy A6 letterpress notes were done last year for Mother’s Day I think for a client’s mom (obviously) and I found the image in my archives when I was organizing photos the other night! Printed as a set of 25 with personalization and envelope printing, wouldn’t these be great for Valentine’s Day too?

Click on the image to be directed to the listing where you can get a set of your own!

Add one of these Be.MINE letterpress cards to your stash by entering the Letterpress Valentine’s Giveaway below!

These came about with all the html and CSS coding I’ve been doing on some new surprises. I thought it would be great to show some love to all those programmer nerds in our lives! You can get a single Be.MINE card in the shop or try to win one with the other goods in the giveaway linked to above! Printed as a 2 color/blank interior 4Bar letterpress folded card. Paired with a matching 4Bar envelope in blossom.

Valentine’s is rounding the corner in about a month. If you need help trying to plan a surprise for your significant other (like me) then these letterpress LOVElies might get the ideas brewing:

So since it’s been ages since I’ve hosted a giveaway, here’s a special treat for you! I’ll be posting different letterpress Valentine’s product over the next few days and if you enter to win, the best TWO (2) comment/entries will get a whole set of everything below!

The GOODS:

1 set of Valentine’s mini notes and mini-lopes. (set of 4, 2 of each pattern)
1 When You Know Print
1 Set of Love 2×6″ Tags
+more…

TO WIN:
I can’t get a baby-sitter (I don’t trust teenagers with diabetic children, we’ve had issues in the past) – so I need ideas for a surprise night in for my hubby! He is amazing and I really want to do something special/fun for him. COMMENT WITH YOUR IDEA, MAYBE I’LL CHOOSE YOU (be clean, please)! I don’t know if any guys read here, but speak-up, your opinion counts!

Contest ends Friday January 15th, winners will be announced sometime that weekend!

So I missed posting yesterday, too much letterpress jobs going out the door! To make up for it though,  I’ve got lots of free gift tag and place card goodies (personal use) for download this holiday season. Click on the image to be directed to my flickr stream where you can download the original image file direct to your desktop – there’s more after the jump so head on over and get some goods!

The original file is letter (8.5×11″) saved at 300% so just scale to size when printing out at home or the local print-shop and have fun! Cards measure 2×3.5″ when trimmed.

I just shipped these Saturday for a client in Oakland: letterpress printed, 3 exterior ink colors and an interior message, I’m really happy with how they turned out and that they (all 500 of them) are out the door! You can get a single East Bay holiday card for yourself just like this one (blank interior) in the shop NOW! I think the cranes are my favorite part of the whole card.

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! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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.

Sandra came to me awhile back with a need for contact/business cards for her new etsy store. She already had a design and I was her letterpress printer of choice. This card was different in that she had a brush stroke scan that we wanted to print as close as possible to the original.

For letterpress, this required the artwork to be altered in photoshop to a bitmap and then a halftone linescreen. My plate maker (BOXCAR PRESS) recommended a linescreen of 100. They can go all the way up to 150 lpi, however advised that even an expert printer would have to be very cautious with inking so as to not flood the plate. So I stuck with the 100 lpi. This turns your gray-scale image into a tiny dot-gain pattern which them comprises the whole image when printed. I was really nervous printing these cards as the last time I printed a linescreen was a few years back. Never mind my paranoia, I think they turned out quite nice and have now gotten really excited to work more with photography and letterpress!

Back to Sandra, she is a fashion illustrator from Spain and does some amazing work. She really works the medium and as a result, these beautiful works come out of her.

Here we have Eve | Adrienne | McQueen – naturally I had to buy my namesake, now I just need to figure out where I want it to go. If Evelyn was old enough to understand the importance of having her own bathroom, I’d get a few of these to frame and put in there, luckily she’s only 3. Thanks Sanrda for the great opportunity, I’m a huge fan of your work! For more of her gorgeous portfolio check out her website here, I’m just barely skimming the surface.

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! Click to see more cards that I’ve done and their corresponding design proofs!

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: