Design + Print: earth-friendly wedding stationery
July 22, 2009 by Jenni · Leave a Comment
Leigh found Lunalux while searching the internet for wedding stationery that is both sophisticated and earth-friendly. She wanted invitations printed on 100% recycled paper but didn’t want them to look crafty. It was a fun challenge to work with a long-distance client who had very specific needs! Leigh found a shower invitation on our website that was almost perfect (click here to read our post about it from last February). She loved the composition, but knew that her botany-wise relatives would hassle her for using seasonally inaccurate dogwood blossoms on invitations for a August wedding. Because all Lunalux invitations are custom-designed to suit our individual clients, I assured her it would be no problem to replace the dogwood with a different floral graphic. I created an illustration of trumpet vines and sourced heavy 100% recycled card stock and envelopes from Michigan’s earth-loving French Paper, staying in touch with Leigh every step of the way via phone and email. The trumpet vines are incorporated into the invitation, RSVP cards, thank-you notes and place cards in deep, saturated shades of orange and turquoise. When Leigh received the finished product, she was thrilled – and we were thrilled by her enthusiastic thank-you. “The invitations are perfect! Now everyone will see that is IS possible to have environmentally friendly invitations that are elegant.”
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Design + Print: gladiolus wedding invitations
May 13, 2009 by Jenni · Leave a Comment
We started working with Kate and Nick late last year, when they ordered a bunch Lunalux quote postcards to use as their save-the-date announcements. They got in touch with us again a few months later, excited to work on custom-designed invitations for their Big Day. With little direction aside from “We like glads,” we developed a few different concepts for the New York couple to consider. The winning design features a bunch of gladiolus in full bloom, exploding from the base of the invitation. The vibrant violet and green inks, letterpress-printed in natural white wove-finish card stock, are ideal for a summery wedding. The full set also included RSVP postcards and matching thank-you cards. Click on the photo above for a larger view.
The postcard they used for their save-the-dates featured a quote by poet James Tate. This design was originally created as a Valentine’s Day promotional postcard back in 2006, but all these years later, we still adore the lovey text unexpectedly paired with an image of an old rooster weather vain. The ruby red and cyan blue inks really pop off the bright white card stock. It’s gratifying to know that it was re-purposed as a wedding mailer, and think it was upstaged only by the invitations that followed!
Click here to read more about our graphic design and printing services. Or browse our blog archives to see other recent wedding stationery projects.
Scratch pad fever
October 25, 2008 by Jenni · 2 Comments
When we have interesting scrap paper and some free time in our production schedule, we love to make scratch pads to sell in the studio store; it gives us a low-pressure opportunity to make something cool, and it’s nice to have a constantly rotating selection of pads for sale in the store. In recent weeks, we’ve gone a bit overboard in this department, so we have a ton of great new designs for sale. My favorite was created by John, who used cool vibrant ink colors for overlapping floral silhouettes, printed on bright white textured card stock. These pads are bigger and more elaborate than most of our other designs, so we’re selling them for the top-shelf price of $6.
We’ve also got pads featuring images of bicycles, bunnies, Mexican wrestlers, sunflowers, golf balls, owls and our fine neighbor to the north, Canada! Most recently we printed the state of Minnesota in three colors (red, blue and dark charcoal) on light gray felt-finish card stock. These we’re selling individually for $4 each, or in bundles of three pads (one of each color) tied with a satiny bow for $12 – we think the set makes an excellent present!
All of our pads are letterpress-printed on high-quality papers here in our Loring Park studio, and for sale exclusively in our store for $3-$6 each. They’re so nice and so inexpensive, once you try a Lunalux Deluxe Scratch Pad, you’ll never settle for anything less. Have we infected you with scratch pad fever yet? The only cure is for you to come to our shop and buy some pads. Check out our store page for hours and directions, or read more about recent store news in the blog archives.
Wildflower notes for Stationery Saturday
October 10, 2008 by Jenni · 2 Comments
We’re looking forward to a fun day at the Lunalux studio store tomorrow. Not only do we still have many great deals on our sale table (Moleskines! Canvas totes! Fancy pens! Great greeting cards!), but we’re also hosting Stationery Saturday! John printed a popular wildflower graphic on folded notecards for me yesterday, in pretty yellow ink. All day we’ll be customizing these cards for our customers, using dark gray ink and chubby wood type (lower-case letters only). 10 personalized notes letterpress-printed while you wait, with 10 matching yellow envelopes, for only $29 – how cool is that?!? You’ll find all the details on our Stationery Saturday page. And don’t forget, anyone who spends $25 on regular or sale-priced merchandise will receive a free goodie bag valued at $25!
Design + Print: dandelion letterpress stationery
September 16, 2008 by Jenni · Leave a Comment
When Joyann, a freelance fashion/style editor from NYC, searched for business card designers on the internet, she found Lunalux. I was tickled that someone from such a high-fashion industry was drawn to our work (“I love your designs!” she exclaimed in an introductory e-mail), and excited to work with someone who has a serious sense of style. I asked intern Katie to channel her East Coast Fashionista (she spent a few months in New York interning at Harper’s Magazine) and assemble a package of samples to send to our potential new client. She picked some pieces of work that I was very proud of, and others that I would not have selected. But I trusted her experience and sent the samples off for consideration.
Well, good thing Katie helped – Joyann loved a dandelion motif that I never would have thought to include in the sample selection (click here to view the wedding invitations in which we first used this graphic). She also found some paper, ink and typeface examples that suited her. Through phone calls and e-mails we refined the design and created just what Joyann wanted: a lovely suite of business cards, notecards and envelopes, all letterpress-printed on 100% cotton papers in blue and black inks. Because the cards would be used primarily for work, it was important that everything look very professional. But since she’s a freelancer, her printed collateral could show off her personality, too. Click on the above image for a larger view of the finished product.
We used super-soft Lettra 110# cover for her business cards, while the A6 notecards are on a smoother 134# cover (same color, better texture for hand-written notes). Most importantly, we got the cards to her just in time for a business trip to The Other Coast. Interested in learning more about our custom-designed business and personal stationery? Check out the custom page of our website, or read about other recent projects in our blog.
