The end of summer

While we finish up several more invitation sets for fall weddings (lots of tree motifs), here's a look back at the summer productions (remember all that blue and orange?).



A summer-lovin' luscious invite with bright, Carribean-colored waves and blind-embossed clouds on my new-favorite Arch paper (100% post-consumer cotton rag, extra-thick and extra-licious).




Falling leaves and an invitation poem by a lovely couple from New York.



And on the classical side, a blue brocade, some Mrs. Eaves and Shelley Allegro, and a bright white paper make for a lovely invitation set.



More bright, exciting, fun invitations, designed by the bride.



and the best reply cards I've seen yet.

Bembo-licious

The Stationery Show kicked off today, but I don't yet have photographs or energy enough to recap quite yet. In the meantime, I wanted to share a link sent to me by a Boston bookbinder and fellow Letterpress Guild member Cynthia. I hope you all enjoy this as much as I did.

www.bemboszoo.com

On the straight and narrow

Last weekend I made my way with Melissa across the state to Letterpress Things in Chicopee. She recently got her hands on a 5x8 Kelsey and was eager to pick up the rest of the essentials she'd need for printing. I was in desperate straits for some cutting rule as I had a job with 1500 slits to cut, and was not looking forward to doing it by hand. Not when I have a perfectly good press to use...



The day was a total success. Not only did we find everything we were looking for (including a cabinet for her press to go on) but I scored some super fonts as well - including this nearly complete 72 pt Helvetica! (it's only missing the capital N and the number 2, but has a complete lowercase contingent).

Eager to put it into use, I had just the project up my sleeve - a new commission for a poster for the Dudley Chorus spring performance. As I have complete creative freedom with this job, in the past (and past) I'd used it as an opportunity to play with wood type (makes sense, big letters for a poster). Well, what better use for 72 pt Helvetica instead ?!



That decision combined with the inspiration to use the paper strip off-cuts from an invitation job resulted in this elegant yet totally modern long and narrow poster - just like the font!



So delicious.



And I'm embarrassed to admit that even though I own the movie Helvetica, I have yet to watch it. No excuse now.