Oh, sorry about the length of the title on this post. I couldn’t stop. Louis Bohannan and Alan Ahtow are my dear friends who recently took a media class through Fort Bragg’s local television station, MCTV, to add yet another layer to their already incredible skill sets, and gear up for additional services they offer [...]
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An Interview With Zida Borcich About Letterpress Printing: Zida Holds Forth on Her Beginnings as a Printer, Arcane Facts, Historical Tidbits, Relevency of a 500-Year-Old Technology, Hand Set Type and Owning a Letterpress Job Shop In the Modern World
Posted in Black Business Cards with Foil Stamping, Branding for Wedding Photographers, Business Cards & Stationery, Business Cards for Photographers, Business Cards for Psychologists, Business Cards with Edge Painting, Corporate Event Invitations, Couture Letterpress Invitations, Destination Wedding Invitations, Destination Weddings, Graphic Design, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Identity Campaigns, Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Printing for Graphic Designers, Letterpress Thank You Notes, Letterpress Wedding Invitations, Logo Design, Product Labels, Web Site Design & Coding, What I'm Doing, tagged Fabulous Letterpress!, Graphic Design, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Printing for International Clients, Letterpress Wedding Invitations, Local Projects, Wedding Invitations on October 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Funky Triangle: Kip Beelman, Ross Tanner, Zida Borcich: Kip’s Traffic-Stopping Letterpress Business Cards and Stationery Wardrobe by Studio Z Mendocino
Posted in Branding for Wedding Photographers, Business Cards & Stationery, Business Cards for Photographers, Business Cards with Edge Painting, Couture Letterpress Invitations, Graphic Design, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Identity Campaigns, Letterpress Business cards for children's photographers, Letterpress Business Cards for International Photographers, Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Printing for Graphic Designers, Letterpress Stationery Wardrobe, Letterpress Thank You Notes, What I'm Doing, tagged Branding, Fabulous Letterpress!, Graphic Design, Identity Programs, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Printing for International Clients on August 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Kip Beelman is a photographer and a sweetheart. There is no question about it. The guy is pure creativity and unmitigated, self-taught skill, endowed with an eye for the astonishing and a talent that also has in it an aspect of all-heart-ness. It’s something you can feel the minute you read his “about” page on [...]
The Westport Hotel and Old Abalone Pub’s Deep Blue Letterpress Business Cards with Copper and Abalone Foils, Ads, Rack Cards, Web Site — Comprehensive Branding by Studio Z Mendocino
Posted in Advertisements, Bed & Breakfast Branding, Business Cards & Stationery, Destination Weddings, Graphic Design, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Identity Campaigns, Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Stationery Wardrobe, Logo Design, Rack Cards, Web Site Design & Coding, What I'm Doing, tagged Business Cards, Business Stationery, Couture Business Cards, Fabulous Letterpress!, Graphic Design, Identity Programs, letterpress, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Cards, Letterpress Printing, Local Projects, Logo Design, Web Site Design & Coding on July 10, 2010 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
MacDaddy’s Chic Black Letterpress Business Cards with Silver Foil
Posted in Black Business Cards with Foil Stamping, Business Cards & Stationery, Graphic Design, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Identity Campaigns, Letterpress Printing, Logo Design, What I'm Doing, tagged Fabulous Letterpress!, Graphic Design, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Cards, Logo Design on January 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Taylor Dutra, Fort Bragg entrepreneur, pizza house owner, daddy and, newly, MAC technician… Is there anything this guy can’t do? Taylor wanted us to make business cards for his new business that would stand out from the ordinary and make prospective clients want to keep them forevermore (rather than throw them out when they clean [...]
Wayzgoose Invitations Going Out Tomorrow!!!!
Posted in Corporate Event Invitations, Graphic Design, Letterpress Printing, Logo Design, Wayzgoose, What I'm Doing, tagged Fabulous Letterpress!, Graphic Design, Letterpress Cards, Letterpress Printing, Local Projects, Logo Design, Wayzgoose, Wedding Invitations on October 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We just stuffed all the envelopes and put the stamps on and it was like a bubbling cauldron of activity in the shop today. The invitations are going to land in a bunch of people’s mailboxes in the next day or two. Are you all excited??? They are so HAPPPPPPYYY! They are so GAaaaY!!! They [...]
What’s a Wayzgoose?
Posted in Graphic Design, Letterpress Printing, Save the Date, Wayzgoose, What I'm Doing, tagged C & P Press, Fabulous Letterpress!, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Printing, Local Projects, Wayzgoose on October 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We are throwing a Wayzgoose this year. It’s going to be in my shop in Fort Bragg on First Friday, November 6th, starting at 5 pm. Several people may ask the question, What’s a Wayzgoose? In the olden days of printing, it was a printers party; the print shop boss would take his crew out [...]
The Beachcomber Motel Business Cards
Posted in Business Cards & Stationery, Graphic Design, Identity Campaigns, Letterpress Printing, What I'm Doing, tagged Business Cards, Fabulous Letterpress!, Graphic Design, Identity Programs, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Cards, Local Projects, Logo Design on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We just finished up Pam Amante’s reprint on her business cards. It’s people like Pam who keep printers in business. She passes them out wherever she goes, and she goes to lots of places where lots of people who like to travel go. She passes out so many cards that we had to replenish the [...]
Art in the Gardens Unveiling Ceremony Tonight
Posted in Advertisements, Graphic Design, Identity Campaigns, Rack Cards, What I'm Doing, tagged Corporate Event Invitations, Fundraising Campaigns, Graphic Design, Identity Programs, Local Projects, Non-Profits Events Invitations, Post Cards, Posters on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am all excited about the unveiling of artist Julie Higgins’s painting tonight at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens. She is the featured artist this year and I got to be the graphic designer of all their printed advertising, which included big posters, small posters, rack cards, post cards, and an invitation to the unveiling. [...]
