{ black and white }

So glad you’re here! This blog is officially brand-spankin-new, but it should be updated regularly and produce lots of content and hopefully some inspiration for all of you, so be sure to bookmark us and keep checking it out. Features we will be talking about include our home (interior design), the studio (letterpress) flashes of life with our adorable son Cameron, as well as our home town of Chico. Well, enough on that for now (more to come later) in the meantime, let’s get down to busy-ness:

Here is our first officially-printed-for-a-client’s-wedding invitations. We’ve designed and printed a few already (the Annie Bidwell, the Japanese Maple and the Pinstripe, to be precise), but this was our first rubber hits the pavement, it’s for real wedding print job. Kevin and Kristin are getting married this fall and wanted to keep it simple and elegant. Their reception location, the Firehouse in Sacramento, has a bit of a New Orlean’s Courtyard, old-world French feel to it. They had no wedding party, so no official wedding colors. Enter black and white, the versatile, never goes out of style pallette. I designed them a monogram originally (a “K” inside the main swirly scrolls you see above), playing off of their matching initials. This was inspired by the beautiful scrolling balconies that you can see everywhere in the French Quarter of New Orleans – with the family’s crest worked right into the iron design. It’s very ornate and very cool. They modified it to remove the initial, and we replaced it with a tribute to the gas street lanterns of yore, which will be present in the wedding ambiance. The main invitations were printed on double-thick (600 GSM) 100% cotton paper (tree free!) and the RSVP and thank you cards on thick and luxurious single-ply 100% cotton. The envelopes are a black with a custom white/silver ink combination. I’m pretty happy with how it all came together!

Here are some photos of it getting packaged and sent off to the couple:

Sniff, sniff – I’m going to miss it, but it sure was a lot of fun. And only one three a.m.-er, amazingly. We’re learning!!