a family affair: part paper

June 25, 2010 | 2 comments

This past Saturday I had the pleasure of attending (as a bridesmaid) the wedding of this beautiful couple:

Mary (the bride) just happens to be my cousin- and these are the invites we came up with for their special day:

2 color invitation on 110# Lettra:

This double sided rsvp postcard was printed on a coaster stock to give it a bit of extra weight for mailing:

2 color reception card printed on 110# Lettra:

My sister Maureen makes up half of the dynamic duo Domestic Construction, who were responsible for all of the decorations. Here’s a little peak of some of them going up (that ladder was HIGH!):

Every bit of this wedding was thought out and personalized by a family member or friend of the bride and groom. We had the chance to spend a week together getting everything ready; how rare that is in our adult lives, how perfect it made this day.

I’ll spare you my poorly lit shots (or those borrowed from Facebook); stay tuned for a family affair: part decor (and photos from the professionals)!

die, letterpress!

February 26, 2010 | 3 comments

Using his beautiful beast of a Vandercook, Brooklyn based Stukenborg arranges dice on the bed of his press (in some cases up to 1,147 of them!) in varying patterns and compositions to create these amazing letterpress prints. It is one of those ideas that you see and wonder “Why didn’t I think of this?”- but we all know that it is never that simple…

stukenborg

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