California’s Gigi Press has won me over with its classic, simple letterpressed designs accentuated by an appealing modern color palette. Offering personal stationery, boxed notecards, and custom designs (with ready-to-write stationery coming soon): any would make a most elegant impression in your favorite recipient’s mailbox. Because who doesn’t like getting something pretty in the mail? […]
Wedding Style Guide’s Summer issue features a fantastic party celebrating Australia Day. One glance at the color scheme tells you it would translate quite readily to a Memorial Day or Fourth of July party here in the US. (Living in the Midwest, I am champing at the bit for outdoor living season.) Barbeque, fizzy drinks, […]
Loving the inherent simplicity and the charm in these business card designs from St. Helena/Napa Valley based Bluestocking Letterpress. (One of my obsessions is well-designed business cards.) Click over to the Bluestocking Letterpress site for portfolios of invitations, wedding invitations, broadsides, greeting cards, and yes, even more business cards. images courtesy of bluestocking letterpress (discovered while leafing […]
Designer Meg Sutton wanted a creative outlet and “escape” from corporate design. Spurred on by a Savannah shop-keeper (and good friend), the two attended the National Stationery Show for inspiration, and with a little friendly prodding on the airplane ride home, designs and ideas for a letterpress business were born. Low Country Press is inspired […]
February 23, 2011 – 5:00 am
My favorite type of wedding invitation is simple + clean, with an emphasis on typography. When Tayllor Johnson at Page Stationery sent over these two new invitation suites, “Hannah” and “Margaret”, it was love at first sight. The new invitations set an elegant tone: one playfully so, and one more refined and formal. Each suite […]
