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Barely there blue

28Jul

Amidst the “summer of weddings” craziness, I’m trying to squeeze in some letterpress work. This is a little sneak peek of what I worked on this weekend. Barely there blue waves on 110# Crane Lettra. Full reveal will come … soonish :)

Tags: Ink
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Getting Inky

27Jul

Finally went through all of the inks I acquired, weeding out the dried up ones. Here’s what I ended up with:

2 Yellow

2 Rubine Red

1 PMS 185 Red

1 Rhodamine Red

2 Warm Red

1 Orange OA 3638

1 Brick Dust

1 Bronze Blue

1 Process Blue

and … 5 blacks.

Whew. I’m set for life with reds and black.

Too bad the “cactus” color didn’t work out; it looked like a fun color:

Unfortunately, I’ve got about 15 dried up cans to toss out. Anyone know how to dispose old ink properly?

Tags: color, Ink
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It’s dandy

22Jul

Hand-drawn, letterpress animal cards with a twist by Dandy Lion Press are beautiful. I love the big, sketchy illustrations on colored paper:

So lovely how they pay attention to the whole card space — extending the design around to the back and using little elements that coordinate the card to the envelope.

{ via PaperCrave }

Category: animals, illustration, letterpress, stationery // 2 Comments

Tokyo Pear Press

14Jul

Found this small letterpress studio located in Japan: Tokyo Pear Press. Beautiful work and great blog too (which features Japanese type — how fun would it be to work with another language type like this?)

Tags: Japan, Type
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Foodie

13Jul

{ Found via Poppytalk’s Flickr}

Subtle beet … so sweet!

And these cheeky foodie cards — they may be hard to read with this image but you can see the close-ups here

{ Found via PaperCrave }

Tags: food
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Birthday invitations

29Jun

My great aunt is turning 80 and I was asked to design and letterpress her birthday invitations — remember the sneak peek? Well here’s the full reveal:

Tags: invitation, printing
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Treasure trove

22Jun

I recently was given some boxes of old supplies that belonged to a local artist in my hometown. I found about 30 cans of Van Son ink — I’m still checking them through as some are pretty old, but what a collection!