Thursday 18 April 2013

Wedding Invites

It's fair to say I have a bit of a thing about letterpress. I love print in general, but there is something about letterpress in particular that fascinates me. Last year I visited the amazing St Bride Foundation in London, and a few years ago I even looked into building my own press. Looking back, that seems wildly optimistic given my complete of DIY skills and available space, but I'm allowed to dream!

When it came to designing and printing our wedding invites it didn't take us long to decide that letterpress was the way to go. Luckily enough my friend Lucy Bainbridge of Bainbridge Studios put me in touch with a very talented illustrator and printmaker called Emma Lee Cheng who has done a beautiful job on our invites. The tactile quality of letterpress has really brought the design to life and we're so pleased with them. Really we ought to be sending them out first to our friends and family before I start banging on about them on the internet, but I couldn't resist a little sneak preview...


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