Posted in Letterpress on October 28, 2006| Leave a Comment »
Lots of festive printing today! This thank you note matches invitations I printed a few months back. I love the effect of this snowy scene, printed in clear ink, for a custom holiday party invitation. This is just part of a larger holiday project, so I’ll be sure to post more pictures when the rest of the job goes to press. And what a nice blue ink for this bar mitzvah announcement.
Posted in Letterpress on October 25, 2006| Leave a Comment »
Will be finishing up a large calling card order tonight, which is the last of October’s custom stationery orders. Next week is onto November’s… I found these gorgeous beads at a flea market in Park Slope over the weekend. I thought they might be nice to use as a backdrop for some portfolio photos. Today’s clear ink printing seems like a perfect color match.
Posted in Letterpress on October 21, 2006| Leave a Comment »
Just a few hours of printing today, using black ink only. I printed up two sets of calling cards, and half of the thank you notes. Tomorrow I’ll finish those up by adding a graphic in clear ink.
Posted in Letterpress on October 20, 2006| Leave a Comment »
So excited to receive some gorgeous items in the mail today from Port2Port in Maine! After Maria posted our sample sale on her blog last week, we agreed to trade some of our recently printed goods. I made out like a bandit, thanks so much Maria! I especially love these wings, which complement yesterday’s post so well.
Posted in Letterpress on October 18, 2006| 1 Comment »
Plates are arriving Friday for a handful of calling card orders and a wedding thank you note. So today has been mostly computer work, namely laying out files for a custom holiday card and some initial proofs for a custom bookplate I’ve been asked to design and print. A new type of project for me, it should be really fun.
Posted in Letterpress on October 17, 2006| Leave a Comment »
A wet day here in new york city. I had a bunch of cutting to do for four calling card jobs I plan to print later in the week (as soon as plates arrive). I remember back in the day, before I had access to Breck’s paper cutter around the corner. I used to cut stacks of cardstock on a small, not-so-accurate cutting board. I had multiple heart attacks over the coarse of the year, never able to predict when a stack would get eaten by an inaccurate cut. Vive la france!
Here are some shots of the guillotine tape measure, some paper and a very wet washington street.
Posted in Letterpress on October 15, 2006| Leave a Comment »
A fun and exhausting day indeed. The arts festival and sale are wrapping up, and the crowds are shuffling toward subway entrances as we speak. We got to meet so many nice people, and were especially glad that Grace from Design*Sponge popped by.
I managed to pop down to Water Street this afternoon to check out Jane’s Carousel. Jane worked on restoring this 1922 carousel for 20 years, and it is breathtaking. I wish I could include an audio clip of the music, it really completes the experience. Here are some shots of the horses in motion…anyone in the new york city area should take a trip over to check it out. It’s definitely worth it.
Posted in Letterpress on October 14, 2006| Leave a Comment »
Wrapping up the first day of this weekend’s sale, lots of nice people stopped in. Here are some shots of the paper+cup and moontree goods, and a photo of Matt from Sesame Letterpress (downstairs on the 5th floor). Tomorrow will be another long day, we hope a lot like today.
Posted in Letterpress on October 13, 2006| Leave a Comment »
Almost finished packing stuff up for the sample sale. This weekend is also the dumbo arts under the bridge festival, which will be a blast. I hope the weather holds out, what a gorgeous day we had today. And as always, having people over has been a great chance to clean the place. This shot is a stack of sale items in front of my ink shelf…deceptively tidy.
Posted in Letterpress on October 12, 2006| Leave a Comment »
Most of today and tomorrow will be devoted to packing cards and other little items for the weekend sample sale. I’m really excited. Until now I’ve been thinking mostly about paper, tags, tables, etc. But now that we’re getting lots of nice feedback from readers, I’m really looking forward to having folks come by the studio.
And my friend Ted came up with a great idea. He stopped by the studio the other day after doing some recording at a studio here in dumbo and saw the stack of gift tags about to be hole-punched. He told me didn’t need any gift tags but would use them as bookmarkers. And then I thought, “Wait – a) I have never used a gift tag in my life and b) all my books I have grocery store receipts stuffed in them.” Voila…gift tags are now bookmarkers.
Moontree Letterpress 