Stationery Saturday: Two Rivers or Bust!

This month’s Stationery Saturday is all about the wood. We dug into our collection of vintage type, and designed folded notecards that showcase the giant wood letters. We’ve pre-printed with decorative borders; visitors can choose a gray diamond stripe or a red starred stripe, on either smooth natural white or textured bright white cards. We’ll print the text of your choosing on two lines, in overlapping gray and goldenrod inks. We’ll work the cards through both our Heidelberg Windmill and Vandercook SP-15 to complete the design, making this one of the most complicated letterpress-to-go designs we’ve offered to date. 10 personalized cards plus 10 blank envelopes set you back just $34. Aren’t you lucky!?!

Why are we all in a twist over the type? Our sights are set on a volunteer weekend at Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum later this month. The museum, an invaluable resource for lovers of type, printing, and design, is on the move. They’re leaving their historical home and headed across town to a new old building, a project that requires both lots of cash and lots of helping hands. When Jenni and Morgan hit the road to Two Rivers, Wisconsin, they hope to have a stash of cash to cover their gas and motel, plus some extra to donate to the Wood Type Museum. So we’re asking you to help the Ladies of Lunalux help Hamilton! $10 from each set of notecards sold on Saturday will go to our travel fund, plus all proceeds from our limited-edition Two Rivers or Bust prints (featuring super-sized wood-type, hand-inked by Jenni, making each print a totally unique piece). Hamilton Wood Type is an amazing organization, and we’re eager lend a hand, so we hope you will be too!

To add to the excitement of the day we’ve invited Mary Bruno of Bruno Press to join us for the day. She’ll be selling her makes-you-LOL letterpress-printed greeting cards and t-shirts. She’s an incredible printer who hails from St. Joseph, MN – so we don’t get to see her as often as we’d like to! But we think you will love to meet her, so make a point to chat her up while you’re here, OK?

Stationery Saturday will run all day on March 9, 2013. All are invited to stop in between 11a.m. and 6p.m. The ordering personalized letterpress-printed cards is encouraged but not required! We have an excellent selection of stuff in the store right now, including cards for the upcoming holidays (Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day), new greeting cards from 1canoe2 on Mr. Boddington’s Studio, and sweet sparkley springy notebooks, stickers, cards, and sticky notes from Papaya! As always, we’ll have coffee and homemade cookies to share. Check our Stationery Saturday page for all the nitty gritty details.

If you aren’t able to visit Lunalux this weekend, but want to order come cards or donate to our Hamilton fund, call or shoot us an email and we’ll take care of you that way. We can be reached at 612-373-0526 of info (at) lunalux .com

Design + Print: Varsity wedding invitations

One of our final wedding projects of 2012 was this show-stopping invitation for February nuptials taking place at the Loring Pasta Bar and Varsity Theatre in Dinkytown. Shannon & Sean, the betrothed, wanted a black and blue invitation suite that would reflect both Minnesota roots and contemporary aesthetics. While we tossed around a few concepts, their favorite idea was to include an image of their reception location. So that’s just what we did. These 5×7 invitations were printed on 130# bright white bristol cover, with the theatre’s distinctive marquee running up the left-hand side. Stylish but not too busy. Clean and simple and cool. The accompanying pieces included an information insert with travel and website invitation, envelopes with custom navy-blue liners, and a RSVP card featuring a rearranged marquee. Since the invitations hit the mail in November, the bride & groom report receiving lots of compliments their unique wedding stationery.

Best of the Twin Cities 2012

We’re thrilled to be included in MplsSt.Paul Magazine‘s Best of the Twin Cities issue again. It might be too late to pick one up on the news stands (it’s been out there since late November, actually) – but perhaps there’s a copy on your friend’s coffee table? Take a peek at page 78, along the bottom, ‘neath the headline “Kickin’ It Old-School.” The Lunalux studio has been tagged the best place to indulge in typography. We’re grateful to the editorial staff for including us in the list (and of course glad that some readers saw the mention and went out of their way to visit our shoppe).