Found a new-to-me studio that does such original, well-designed work: Poppies for Grace (via Oh So Beautiful Paper). These photos are also really inspiring for color palettes and photo styling. Such thoughtful work.
{images shown belong to Poppies for Grace}
Really love the comparison of organic versus geometric from Stone & Honey’s jewelry. Such beautiful work!
{images shown belong to Stone & Honey}
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This Wednesday I finally got to do something that I’ve been wanting to do for months… learn screenprinting (or rather, refresh… last did it in high school) and finally put my logo on my shopping bags. The workshop was taught by my friend and colleague, Allison Bianco, and it was really a lot of fun. Who knew seeing your logo on a kraft bag could make you so incredibly happy? It was the same sort of giddy feeling I had when I saw my name on my first set of business cards at my first job out of college.
Really excited for the 2nd class for screenprinting: I’ll be working on a print combining screenprinting (and later on) & letterpress for a print exchange at the AS220 Print Shop!
Have a great weekend everyone! I’ll be trying to stay afloat from Hurricane Irene and not holding too much animosity towards her for ruining my 2nd SoWa Open Market event, especially after my 1st one was completely rained out. Argggh.
- Colleen
My great friends Leo and Leah filmed and edited this video for our friends Ashley and Troy (you might remember their wedding invitations). It came out so great, and this is just the rough cut! Can’t wait to see the finished version.
Check out Bonarrigo Weddings and their photography and film work here.
Ashley and Troy from Bonarrigo Weddings on Vimeo.
I cannot stop looking at this one page on BHLDN. So much inspiration for color, texture, and pattern. Seriously, I’ve been flipping through here for a few days now!
{all images belong to BHLDN}
Working on a wedding invitation project, I came across this book spread online. How beautiful! Really inspired by it. From the book Evergreens, via found in my mom’s basement.
{image shown via found in my mom’s basement}
I’m so pleased to share with you the wedding invitation suite for my dear friends Colleen & Paul. I’ve been lucky to be able to print their save-the-dates and both shower invitations (here and here), and was so excited to see the design for their wedding invites. Everything was designed and illustrated by the bride and groom (both are amazing artists) and I letterpress printed the suite in a dark charcoal and an apple green. The lovely calligraphy is by the bride (she is so talented!).
The invitation suite arrived wrapped in twine and stacked with the invite on top, in the middle an information card with cartography border illustrations, then on the bottom a map and directions card with an anchor and key border illustration (did I mention the hand-drawn map, too?). It was such a great project to work on, and it was for people I love = the best.
It’s almost September and that means the wedding is just around the corner! Seriously cannot wait.
Yesterday my cousin and I finally made it to the beach. Hooray! It was really a perfect beach day (with the exception of a wild and very bold seagull knocking my sandwich literally out of my hands with his beak – ouch!). Felt super relaxed when I got home I stayed up late getting a lot of work done. So, based on my summer to-do’s, I have four more things to go!
Someday I hope to have a studio space as open, airy, and beautiful as Geninne. Right now I share a cramped space with my husband, so looking at these photos makes me very dreamy and hopeful for a space sometime soon.
{images shown belong to Geninne}