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Archive for July, 2010

I wanted to share these two emails that came from our client Rob Visjnak, a British Colombia real estate broker, whose real estate business cards are hot off the press, and I mean HOT, and making waves in Vancouver: Hi Zida! Got my cards today and I love them! I’ve given them to a few [...]

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Sometimes people want BLIND EMBOSSING, which is a process that pushes an image UP out of the paper, and has no color — that is the “blind” part. It’s a fantastic effect that depends on a high relief effect so that shadow and texture make the impression. It works beautifully on paper that is not [...]

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Kinsey Meredith Piscatelli had us do these exciting, thrilling, iconoclastic, super-fun, sexy, yet somehow uber-classy letterpress business cards for her photography business. She brought the design, which she did herself, all ready to go and we helped her decide what papers to use, colors and materials. Black|white duplex paper with white opaque foil on the [...]

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Studio Z Mendocino was very pleased and honored to be one of the sponsors of napcp’s fantastic photography retreat at the Meritage, in Napa, California last month. I got to go over and make a small presentation and then to meet so many fabulous Children’s Photographers. Schmoozing was of the utmost during our bus ride [...]

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Julie and Lewis, of Stella Cadente (shooting star) Olive Oil Company, decided they wanted to redesign their labels and came to me last year. We started with some already fabulous elements from the old labels, like the shot of olive leaves and olives and their arresting Stella Cadente logo, but the labels needed to “sing” [...]

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The Westport Hotel, Westport, California All photos by Pablo Abuliak A few years ago, Dorine Real and Lee Tupper bought the old Cobweb Palace, a hard-used, decrepit hotel and bar that had presided over the pristine seaside village of Westport, California, about twenty miles north of Fort Bragg, since the 1800s. They undertook the intimidating [...]

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photos by Dana Goodson Fabulous Florida Photographer, Dana Goodson, just got the new stationery and business cards Studio Z Mendocino made up for her, and posted these photos on her blog last night. I am so thrilled with how she shot them. She had to get out her macro lens for the shot above. Beautiful. [...]

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