Filed under: Design,Inspirations,Letterpress | Tags: Bethany Heck, End Grain, typography, wood type, woodtype
I love typography and woodtype, Bethany Heck and her End Grain blog, fulfills a void for me where I want to run out and spend my entire life savings on all the gorgeous wood type I can find, but realistically shouldn’t. It is a wonderful exploration of letterforms and letterpress. End Grain found a niche and I love to fall right in it everyday.
ps. I am thinking of changing up what I blog on Thursdays, obviously I love typography and letters, but I am also currently over inspired by the others out there doing handmade. Etsy has stolen my heart again lately and I am finding a lot of things that I would love to chat about … we’ll see where it goes … it may turn into oTHURsday around here for a while.
Filed under: BirdDog Press,Friends,Handmade Revolution,Letterpress | Tags: custom framing, Letterpress, Mon Atelier, Valerie Combs, vintage, Wedding invitation, wood type
Speaking of weddings, we have collaborated our way to a unique wedding keepsake with our studio neighbor, Valerie Combs of Mon Atelier, who is a brilliant bespoke framing artist. Letterpress matting, french line details and handmade frames are her specialty and preserve wedding stationery suites with heirloom quality. The paper goods are mounted in a shadow box style and the border hand painted on an archival rag mat to set off the typography-heavy design. Then, using vintage wood type, we pressed the wedding date into the mat and finally the frame was custom constructed with a distressed finish to complete the ensemble.
This has been such a successful collaboration, we have begun crafting a line of photography-ready frames with letterpress patterned mats. Stay tuned for more on these designs soon.
Filed under: BirdDog Press,Letterpress | Tags: Birdwood Press, broadside, lead type, poetry, Tom Parson, typography, wood type
My piece for a collaborative project that I contributed at the request of Gail of Birdwood Press honoring the poetry of my letterpress mentor, Tom Parson {a poet, kind soul & typophile} – Just for him, I hand-set 8 lines of tiny 9pt Bodoni, which first had to be sorted into a type case. In case you’re wondering, it took a LONG time. But letter by letter, I learned the layout of a traditional California Job Case. Hopefully, Tom will be proud. Choosing a poem titled Whipoorwill, because it conjures wonderful imagery and sounds from my southern upbringing, I combined a trio of color and a tri-fecta of photopolymer, lead type and {my favorite} wood type. I owe a lot to Tom and still have a ton to learn from him. He is truly an original and I appreciate him to the core.
Filed under: BirdDog Press,Handmaiden Papeterie,Letterpress | Tags: Wood Veneer, wood type, winter wedding
A closer look at the creation for 5280 Magazine, a pinecone adorned veneer invitation letterpress printed with vintage wood type. We had the opportunity to create something specific for the look & feel of an inspired winter wedding for the mountain bride. Think fireside toasts in a cozy log cabin, aisles of snowflake flocked pine trees and toe-warming hot chocolate cocktails.
Filed under: BirdDog Press,Handmaiden Papeterie,Letterpress | Tags: Wedding invitation, wood type, Keira Ritter, Dunton Hot Springs
What a wonderful weekend for a wedding. One of my very favorite clients, Keira Ritter, came to me recently to print invitations for her sure to be fabulous wedding in Dunton Hot Springs this past weekend. This is a quick shot of the work-in-process version as we were figuring out just what combination of wheat, veneer, grommets and wood type to use. Finished product and maybe even some photography from the wedding, coming soon!
Filed under: BirdDog Press,Green,Letterpress | Tags: French Paper Company, recycle, reduce, reuse, wood type
This wedding reception is going to be a real picnic! In the interest of an extremely short timeline, and a desire to make little impact while spending little money, … we came up with a combination of photopolymer plates that I already had from previous jobs, French Co. 100% recycled paper that was off-cut from another project and my newly acquired vintage wood type for a fresh look on a low budget. We created something new, using what we already had! Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
Filed under: BirdDog Press,Handmaiden Papeterie,Letterpress | Tags: wedding, Jenna Walker Photography, cupcake flags, wood type, Katie Thurmes
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Two of my favorite clients of all-time, One FABULOUS wedding this past weekend. oh, speaking of that, wedding season is in full swing here and the BirdDog is swamped, so I have no time for more drooling & swooning over this phenomenal couple, but I will now let photographer Katie Thurmes of Jenna Walker Photography do the rest of the talking …
Just add snow! Here is the ingredients list:
photography Jenna Walker Photography / venue (St. Julien Hotel & Spa / hair & makeup The Face Lab / band Soul X and lighting by Starkey Productions / flowers European Flower Shop / cupcakes & sweets Tee and Cakes / wedding coordination and planning by Heather Dwight of Calluna Events
