Design + Print: Minneapolis skyline invitations

We created these skyline invitations last spring for a couple who was planning a downtown wedding. When they asked about the possibility of including an image of Minneapolis on the invitations, we had just finished printing notecards featuring a modified photograph of our downtown skyline (the cards were featured in our blog last March). So it was a breeze to translate this into a sophisticated urban invitation suite. The skyline and invitation text were letterpress-printed in sepia ink on 110# natural white Strathmore wove-finish cover. We created matching smaller cards for the hotel information and RSVP.

You can read more about our recent wedding invitation projects in our blog archive. If you’re thinking about custom letterpress-printed wedding invitations for your big day, click here for general information about our design and printing services.

September Stationery Saturday: Minnesota Buckslips

It’s Stationery Saturday time again. And you know what that means: personalized stationery letterpress-printed while you wait, for just $29.00. This Saturday, September 11, we’re offering note cards featuring four handsome motifs: a Minnesota silhouette, a Minneapolis stamp, a St. Paul stamp, and three stars. We’ll print the name or phrase of your choice (25 characters and spaces, max) in red ink using a newly acquired font of vintage Huxley Vertical lead type. These buckslips (that’s a 3.875×9.25-inch flat card that fits into a standard business-size envelope) are printed on 100# natural white Strathmore Pastelle felt-finish cover – it’s a hefty stock, feels very substantial, and takes the letterpress impression very nicely. Finished cards will be paired with matching deckle-edge envelopes, and packaged with ribbon and a letterpress-printed Lunalux tag. All the names/phrases on the cards shown here were chosen by our fans – we had a contest on the Lunalux facebook page, and the winners’ ideas were used to print samples. You can visit our Stationery Saturday page to read more about the event, see a list of other upcoming dates, and view photos of past Stationery Saturday designs. Or use the event listing on facebook to RSVP and tell all your paper-lovin’ friends about it too. Stationery Saturday runs 11a.m.-6p.m.; we’ll also have coffee and homemade cookies to share all day. We’re excited to hang out with all y’all!

For folks who are dying to get their paws on some of these limited edition cards, but geography or their schedule doesn’t permit them to visit our studio on the 11th of September, we now have a way for you to order Stationery Saturday cards online. Just visit the new Lunalux shop at feltandwireshop.com, a curated stationery marketplace, where you can view product listings for all four designs, and order your favorite. This is a new experiment for us, so we hope someone will try it out and we hope it goes smoothly!

Enter to win free letterpress stationery

We’ve just unveiled the designs for our September Stationery Saturday event, and we need to personalize some of each to use as samples. What should we print on these samples? You decide! Enter our contest for your chance to win one of four sets of personal stationery. Winners will receive 15 buckslip flats, imprinted in red ink with the name or phrase of their choice (one line of text below the image, up to 30 characters and spaces), featuring one of four designs: Minnesota silhouette, three stars, Minneapolis stamp or St. Paul stamp. The hefty natural white felt-finish notes will be paired with blank #10 envelopes.

To enter the contest, visit www.lunalux.com/saturday to read about Stationery Saturday and review the four design choices for September; then tell us about your favorite by writing on the Lunalux Facebook wall. Your post must mention a) which of the four buckslip designs you like best, b) what you want printed on the card, and c) how you will use them. We’ll pick four winners, one for each design, and post the results at facebook.com/lunalux

Entries must be live on our wall by Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 3:00p.m. CST. You can post an entry for more than one design. The winners’ personalized cards will be used to promote Stationery Saturday – we’ll put pictures of them on the web, and display them in our Minneapolis shop. We’ll ship the cards to you (or to a friend, if it’s a gift) after the September 11 event.

Lunalux in the Downtown Journal

Lunalux owner Jenni Undis is featured in the March 30 edition of the Minneapolis newspaper Downtown Journal. Look for Jenni in the bi-weekly column “From the desk of” – the story includes a photo of her desk, along with little factoids about some of the clutter you’ll see on said desk. The Downtown Journal is a free newspaper, available all over downtown Minneapolis. You can also click here to read the story on the newspaper’s website. You can also browse the Luanlux blog archives to read more about press coverage we’ve been receiving in other newspapers and magazines.