Apr 14, 2015 | Corporate Stationery, Letterpress, Weddings and Social
Not long after I started promoting Wild 166# paper as an excellent choice for business cards and the Humble Beginnings collection, my primary supplier completely ran out. Ain’t that a kick in the head? I finally found another supplier and got Elise is a talented...
Apr 8, 2015 | Letterpress, Weddings and Social
I love couples with a sense of humor. My friends Brian (he insists with an “i” is the only correct spelling of the name) and Kelly have it in spades. After a recent shop move, I unearthed this beautiful letterpress invitation I helped them create. Brian...
Apr 6, 2015 | Corporate Stationery, Letterpress, Weddings and Social
Music Mondays: because life’s better with a soundtrack. How has this album been out for a year and I missed it entirely? I’m glad to now be hip to Sylvan Esso and I hope you are, too!
Mar 30, 2015 | Corporate Stationery, Letterpress, Weddings and Social
Music Mondays: because life’s better with a soundtrack. Having grown up in a pentecostal church, I rode the wave of mediocre CCM (that’s Contemporary Christian Music) like a champion surfer. It wasn’t until my late teen years that I started to...
Mar 25, 2015 | Letterpress, Weddings and Social
We’ve been working hard and have added two new invitations to the Humble Beginnings collection. Humble Beginnings is our made-to-order letterpress wedding invitation line. It’s a chance to have your own inviting experience without the investment of a...
Mar 20, 2015 | Corporate Stationery, Weddings and Social
The good folks at Creative Arts Unlimited (have you seen their incredible work?!) posted this sometime around the new year: Now, if you’ve been reading my little musings for any length of time, you might know that I don’t care much for trends. I think that...
Mar 18, 2015 | Weddings and Social
Cutting Room Floor is a chance for you to peek behind the curtain and see the ideas that, for whatever reason, never made it into being. It’s an opportunity to see just how we’re willing to dream for our clients. They’re ideas we’d really love to see produced. Feel...
Mar 17, 2015 | Corporate Stationery, Weddings and Social
Meet my current obsession. His name is Andy Goldsworthy. It’s no secret that I love art. I believe wedding planners, wedding designers and, in general, all wedding-related people should be looking to art instead of other weddings for their inspiration. This guy...
Mar 13, 2015 | Letterpress, Weddings and Social
Call me reductionist, but I think it’s dumb for a custom stationer to have minimum order quantities for hand-crafted stationery. Here’s why they do it The lion’s share of the cost of an invitation happens before ink ever meets paper. It’s in...
Mar 9, 2015 | Corporate Stationery, Letterpress, Weddings and Social
Music Mondays: because life’s better with a soundtrack. Ornette Coleman turns 85 years old today. Happy birthday to the man who gave us The Shape of Jazz to Come. And since Spotify has apparently updated and removed its easy peasy embed options, HERE’S A LINK to...
Mar 2, 2015 | Corporate Stationery, Letterpress, Weddings and Social
Music Mondays: because life’s better with a soundtrack. I can’t believe I’ve not yet shared with you the music of one of the most transformational times in my life. It was 2007 and I was in graduate school. I had the opportunity to attend what would wind...
Feb 28, 2015 | Letterpress, Weddings and Social
First, A Little History A lot has changed in the world of letterpress printing. Presses that were once the center of every print shop in America suffered neglect and were often scrapped in the name of progress. New, more efficient technologies replaced them. Then,...
Feb 27, 2015 | Weddings and Social
It hasn’t even been 24 hours and the western world is already drawing battle lines. Are you team #BlackAndBlue or team #GoldAndWhite? My own house is divided, with me firmly in the #BlackAndBlue camp while my wife has seen it both ways. It’s kind of crazy....
Feb 23, 2015 | Corporate Stationery, Letterpress, Weddings and Social
Music Mondays: because life’s better with a soundtrack. We’re at a time in history where the great musicians of my favorite art form are passing with some regularity. Last week, we lost a titan. Clark Terry “has joined the big band in heaven where...
Feb 18, 2015 | Corporate Stationery, Weddings and Social
Cutting Room Floor is a chance for you to peek behind the curtain and see the ideas that, for whatever reason, never made it into being. It’s an opportunity to see just how we’re willing to dream for our clients. They’re ideas we’d really love to see produced. Feel...
Feb 17, 2015 | Weddings and Social
There are some couples for whom sending out printed invitations is a necessary burden (even a few who opt not to at all). There are some couples that can find the perfect pre-designed invitation (like our Humble Beginnings line). Then there are some couples who need...
Feb 13, 2015 | Corporate Stationery, Letterpress
Quick! Name a type foundry! “What the deuce is a type foundry?” you ask. Right – Unless you’re a designer, you probably have no idea who is behind all the cool fonts (read: not papyrus) on the stuff you love to look at. You probably...
Feb 11, 2015 | Weddings and Social
Cutting Room Floor is a chance for you to peek behind the curtain and see the ideas that, for whatever reason, never made it into being. It’s an opportunity to see just how we’re willing to dream for our clients. They’re ideas we’d really love to see produced. Feel...
Feb 10, 2015 | Letterpress
We’re pretty excited about this collaboration with Dual Brain. It’s the invitations for our local American Advertising Awards (fka ADDY’s) gala. If you look closely, you’ll see an excellent example of “rewarding the careful...
Feb 4, 2015 | Letterpress
Cutting Room Floor is a chance for you to peek behind the curtain and see the ideas that, for whatever reason, never made it into being. It’s an opportunity to see just how we’re willing to dream for our clients. They’re ideas we’d really love...
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