The Dingbat’s Agenda

  • December21st

    Vintage Oak Trees

    Posted in: Custom

    I have this amazing book, by Clarence P Horeuning (sp?) that I love to draw from on occasion. Although I did have a heck of a time trying to track it down…it has since been a great resource for vintage letterpress/ad cuts. Published in the late 1800s, then again in the 30s and again in the 50s. I’m not sure what my edition is but it’s OLD, I think 1934. It has all these amazing illustrations/cuts that I’ve started to scan in and archive in my “to use someday” file. There’s also a sister companion with Victorian type, initial caps and letter-forms that are incredible. Like hundreds of pages.

    oak house, vintage oak tree illustration

    Enter Karen. She is a lovely sister and is ordering a set of notes for someone special in her family (sibling). She wanted oak tress, and I thought “YES! finally I get to use some of these beauties!”

    Now I know these might not even be oaks, but they look like it to me. Since they’re a little ambiguous I think they pass quite well for oaks.

  • November30th

    Letterpress Holiday Gifts #1

    Posted in: Boxed Notes, Holiday

    CYBER MONDAY! Get 10% off all personalized orders and FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING on all orders today only (11/30/09)! Here’s a sample of a 10% discounted product and it’s time for the 12 days of holiday gifts round-up. If you want to give letterpress goods this holiday season, I’ll be helping you out with suggestions from the shop in all different price ranges. To start, these aren’t anything new for you but here’s another set of Traditional Dingbat A6 notes.

    Personalized Letterpress Traditional Dingbat Notes, Fleur De Lis

    These shipped out last week and are a gift from one friend to another. I love these notes because you can customize with your choice of Goudy or Helvetica  Neue for typeface, select your ink/envelope color, and choose between almost 100 different dingbats to make it truly unique. Letterpress printed on Lettra 110# paper and paired with un-printed envelopes, I think they are one of the hottest letterpress items in the shop that is reasonable in price. Sold in a set of 25, click on the image to get a set now.

  • October14th

    Megan + Alex

    Posted in: Boxed Notes, Holiday

    Here are more Traditional Dingbat notes I shipped out a little while ago. With three more orders of these going through the studio this week, this is climbing the charts as my hottest personalized item, and has the quickest personalization turnaround of 8-10 business days (from approval of proof).

    Megan and Alex, Traditional Dingbat

    I like these because the gift giver chose a dingbat that she wanted to double as an ampersand. If you check out the listing you can see other images of Traditional Dingbat in the thumbnails and customize yours with typeface (Goudy or Helvetica Neue), dingbat, and ink/envelope color. For +$15 I’ll print your envelopes too! The listing is for a set of 25, however I can do 50, 75 or 100 if you’d like. Get your order in before the holiday schedule gets too tight!

  • August31st

    Letterpress Lemons

    Posted in: Holiday

    You may have remembered this giveaway a few months back or these I did for my dad. Colleen, the winner, chose this great crown for her dingbat and I am FINALLY getting around to posting the photos from her set of 25 Traditional Dingbat that she won.

    colleen lemons letterpress giveaway, traditional dingbat

    These were a hit last year during the holidays – shameless I know to even be mentioning the holidays – but I’m already starting to fill up my press schedule for custom gifts! To order some for you or as a gift you can click on to check out the full listing.

  • July31st

    Men’s Traditional Dingbat

    Posted in: Custom

    So I’ve done the Traditional Dingbat for many female friends here, and here, but had yet to show how it could be applied for guys too! Enter, my dad – in another life he should have been a graphic designer or architect. But instead he is a really fabulous attorney. I know, you all are cringing right now, but I have to say, having one for a dad has been a valuable asset to my business! Since he’s always helping me out along the way with contracts, suing people (just kidding), and the never-ending legal advice I solicit from him – for his birthday I wanted to make him some cards. How about a little Frank Lloyd Wright, dad?

    Moench

    For even more photos, you can check out the flickr feed too.

  • June12th

    Giveaway! Dingbat Notes (2x chances)!

    Posted in: Custom, GIVEAWAY

    For my 200th post I’m offering something special to those who have made this blog fun for me!

    I’ve been printing a ton of these lately and wanted to offer a lovely set of 25 as a giveaway opportunity to all you great readers! Below are some that were recently shipped, you can see more photos on the flickr feed.

    traddingbatgiveaway

    To enter, you need to comment on this post which dingbat you want (click here and check out the thumbs in the store listing to pick one) and for an extra entry, tweet with a tiny URL back to this post. Humor me – I like to see what people pick to go with their names!

    The GOODS:
    If you win you’ll get a lovely set of 25 personalized (one-line name/one-color ink) letterpress Traditional Dingbat A6 Notes with printed envelopes.

    Size: 4.5×6″ FLAT card, printed on white 110# paper and paired with either matching envelopes or a colored envelope. Ships in 14-20 business days from winning notification.

    Good luck entering, I look forward to seeing what sort of a dingbat you all are! COMMENTS CLOSE 6/19/09 at midnight! Winner notified the following Monday.

    UPDATE: CONGRATS TO COLLEEN! I’ll email you with more info on your notes :) Thanks to everyone that tweeted and commented!

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