Every day we go into my shop and work like maniacs. Sometimes we forget how beautiful it is in here. This is where a job begins, after the idea pops into the typographer’s head, that is. This is called a composing stick. You put each letter into it with the type going from left to [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Scenes from a Letterpress Printshop — My Beautiful Old Lead Type Is for Sale
Posted in Letterpress Printing, tagged Hand set lead letterpress type, Hand set lead type for sale on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Formidable Sculptor Bruce Wolfe — Silver Foil Stamped Letterpress Business Cards
Posted in Business Cards & Stationery, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Printing on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I promised to show you the cards we printed for Bruce Wolfe and here they are. Silver foil puts a little dazzle on Bruce’s strong-lined signature-logo. The sculptural quality of letterpress is a perfect match for Bruce’s art form, massive and gorgeous sculptures like this one he was working on in his studio when I [...]
Renee Avalos — San Francisco Chef with a Great Letterpress Business Card
Posted in Business Cards & Stationery, Graphic Design, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Printing, tagged Business Cards, Fabulous Letterpress!, Graphic Design, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Business Cards for Chefs, Letterpress Cards, Letterpress Printing on February 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Renee Avalos is a personal chef in San Francisco. We turned our Blue Bird Placecard from the old Studio Z Mendocino line of stationery into a yummy folding business card for Renee, and she says she loves it. The scribbly typeface refers to Renee’s imaginative, creative cuisine. Her tag line, “Honoring food traditions through culture, [...]
Organic, Recycled, Letterpress Wedding Invitations In a Box for Zoe and Noah’s Chicken Pants Ranch Mendocino Wedding
Posted in Destination Wedding Invitations, Destination Weddings, Environmentally friendly wedding invitations, Graphic Design, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Thank You Notes, Letterpress Wedding Invitations, Letterpress Wedding Invitations In a Box, Logo Design, Wedding Invitations, Weddings, Wine Country Destination Weddings, tagged Fabulous Letterpress!, Graphic Design, GREEN Wedding Invitations, letterpress, Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Wedding Invitations, Recyclable, REcycled, Wedding Invitations on February 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Zoe is my first born child, a beautiful and amazing woman and to top it off, a gifted graphic designer. When she and Noah set the date for their Albion wedding and Mendocino destination reception (lucky them, the destination wedding happened where they actually live), everybody at the print shop knew we were in for [...]
Wedding FYI — on the Trendiness of Letterpress Wedding Invitations — Gleaned from the Web
Posted in Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Thank You Notes, Uncategorized, tagged Fabulous Letterpress!, Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Wedding Invitations, Wedding Invitations on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Inside of an invitation that was sent in a beautiful box. Designed by Zoe Bachelor and printed and assembled at Studio Z Mendocino I just found this latest wedding update on Access Hollywood and thought it was so fabulously trendy that LETTERPRESS invitations are the new IT THING. Read on… Katy Perry, Carrie Underwood, Emily [...]
Vancouver, BC, Photographer Alana Couch Gets a Brand New Brand and Edge Painted Letterpress Business Cards from Studio Z Mendocino
Posted in Business Cards & Stationery, Business Cards for Photographers, Graphic Design, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Identity Campaigns, Letterpress Business Cards for International Photographers, Letterpress Printing, Logo Design, tagged 600 gsm Cranes Lettra Paper, Business Cards, Business Cards for Children's Photographers, Business cards for wedding photographers, Couture Business Cards, Edge Painting on Business Cards, Fabulous Letterpress!, Graphic Design, Identity Programs, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Cards, Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Printing for International Clients, Logo Design on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Alana Couch called me from Vancouver, BC, last year to see about getting new business cards and a new logo. Her logo was quite traditional and conservative and she felt it no longer reflected the work she is doing now, which is fresh, organic, modern and, as you can see on her new splash page, [...]
Audrey Snow, Sarasota Photographer’s Letterpress Business Cards with Pearl Foil
Posted in Business Cards & Stationery, Business Cards for Photographers, Destination Weddings, Graphic Design, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Business Cards for International Photographers, Letterpress Printing, tagged 600 gsm Cranes Lettra Paper, Business Cards, Business cards for wedding photographers, Couture Business Cards, Fabulous Letterpress!, Graphic Design, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Business Cards for Boudoir Photographers, Letterpress Cards on February 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Audrey Snow is as gorgeous in front of a camera’s lens as she is intuitive and talented behind it. Audrey wanted business cards that interpreted her singular style as a wedding and boudoir photographer. Audrey’s blog post describes the cards we recently delivered to her thus: I have always been a very tactile person. The [...]
