In keeping with the theme of the latest issue of HOW magazine we wanted to post a little "self-promotion" blog about our award-winning "self-promotion" foil notebooks.
Our design team created these foil notebooks to showcase our new foil stamping technique. The set of three notebooks -- in gold, silver and copper -- were designed as a set and belly-banded before being gifted to our favorite customers.
As we often say around here, "go team"!
Earlier this week on The Fine Print, we showcased Cinderella stamps which we designed and printed for the Absolutely Best Cotton Deluxe Envelopes Fancy Guide (or ABCDEFG for short). This guide was the clever party favor for the Correspondence Salon sponsored by Crane & Co. at the opening of Alphabetilately at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum.
The guide's airmail imagery and color scheme were a perfect tie-in to an exhibit about the collecting of stamps and the sending of mail.
The contents of the slipcase were postal as well, a series of cards each profiling a different envelope size in the Crane offering.
The guide also received a Merit Award from Print Magazine.
Spring has finally hit everywhere around the country and this week we’re highlighting an invitation from our Dauphine Press custom collection that is the embodiment of spring itself: Citron.
This award-winning design was created by Katrina McHugh and prints in three colors: buttercup, leaf and espresso. On press, we capture a very high level of detail in the lemon branch image which derives from a vintage engraving. The Citron invitation won an International Design Award from How Magazine in 2009.
The Citron invitation sprung from a project we did for the esteemed Paula LeDuc catering in Emeryville, California. Paula wanted a bonbon box as a takeaway for their tastings and events. The company’s identity and stationery was restrained and classic, they had never before used a graphic image on any branded materials. But the lyrical lemon branch image resonated with Paula, and we designed the bonbon box that first introduced the image to their clients. We later developed an invitation for an event Paula le Duc held at Beaulieu Garden which evolved into our Citron wedding invitation.
Inspiration comes from so many unexpected places! We hope your spring brings new inspired ideas to your world.