Dear World,
We are proud to have made this invitation for Myra Beals and Ida Matson, who have been together for 32 priceless years. They are finally getting hitched in a huge community event that will include just about everyone on the Mendocino Coast, plus more. They are amazing women, wonderful, powerful, committed, and we at Studio [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Wedding Invitation of the Week
Posted in Letterpress Printing, Wedding Invitations, same-sex weddings, tagged Add new tag, same-sex weddings on August 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
What is Letterpress Printing?
Posted in Business Cards & Stationery, Letterpress Printing, Logo Design, Wedding Invitations on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Letterpress printing is a type of printing that has its beginnings in the 1450s, with Gutenberg’s world changing invention of movable type. As you may surmise, techniques have been modernized over the centuries, but the amazing look is the same today as it was then: a deep impression into soft, thick paper makes a “pillowing” [...]
Letterpress Printing on a Heidelberg Windmill Press
Posted in Uncategorized on August 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here is a poem I wrote many years ago. If you read it the right way, it sounds just like my press room on a busy day. Breathless!
ODE TO A HEIDELBERG
O Press!
O Heidelberg that swings
While at the same time
Squats, solid & black
& shining.
Your windmill arms
Flash and flick, crack
& whip around a breeze.
Your flywheel sings
A bass [...]
08-08-08
Posted in Uncategorized on August 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dear World
Today’s date seems to have special significance for a lot of people. I know a couple who is getting married this very day. Happy Wedding, Alan and Louis! I took this posting straight off The Wedding Planner Ireland blog http://theweddingplannerireland.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/080808-a-special-date/ re: today’s date: “The date is not only catchy but the number 8 is also considered [...]
Wedding Invitations, Letterpress Printing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Wedding Invitations on August 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today I am gathering up a lot of Wedding Invitation samples to send down to a mother of the bride and a mother of the groom in Trinidad Tobago! This is extremely amazing to me because my mother was from Trinidad and I have been to Trinidad Tobago, and how can it even BE that [...]
Business Cards, Letterpress Printing
Posted in Uncategorized on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you would like to see a business card we did recently (with testimonial!), please go to
www.fredegan.com/blog/business/carded
Our web site, of course, has scads of examples of work we have done here:
www.studio-z.com
Letterpress Printing and Me
Posted in Business Cards & Stationery, Corporate Event Invitations, Fundraising Campaigns, Identity Campaigns, Letterpress Printing, Logo Design, Product Labels, Web Site Design & Coding, Wedding Invitations, Wine Labels, tagged Business Cards, Business Stationery, Corporate Event Invitations, Fundraising Campaigns, Identity Programs, Letterpress Printing, Logo Design, Product Labels, Web Site Design & Coding, Wedding Invitations, Wine Labels on August 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hello, World
I am thinking about letterpress printing today, as usual. It is so much a part of me and my life that it’s a bit like breathing. I have been a printer since 1974 or or 1975, have had this business I so enjoy and love since 1984. It was rare to be a woman in [...]
