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Mai’s Watermelon Invitation
Production Method
Letterpress
Design
draw&explore
Photography by Felis Sarcepuedes
Printing
At Saint Gertrude
It’s nice to see a non-digital party invitation for a kid, and heck, this one is even carefully letterpessed. This kid is on the right track, and one day she will understand the quality of the flooding and the care taken with registration.
Client
Michael and Tanya Caputo
Quantity Produced
120
Production Cost
$450
Production Time
1 Week
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
–
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
–
Number of Colors
Letterpress, 1
Giclee, 2
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
Hand-lettering
Project Description
The brief was to create a hand lettered invitation that reflected one of Mai's favourite foods, watermelons. I decided to combine letterpress and lettering as they go well together. The concept behind the lettering was to create the drop shadow to reflect the flesh of the watermelons with the seeds.Production Lesson(s)
I love to experiment with different effects with lettering and letterpress. I'm very lucky that all the projects that I've letterpressed myself, I have the guidance of Amy of Saint Gertrude. One of the main struggles with this particular project was registration of the letterpress plate and troubleshooting when the print isn't solid. I've learnt that when the print isn't solid, I need to add more padding between the paper and the plate.
Post Author
Bryony Gomez-Palacio
Editor of FPO and co-founder of UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
March 14, 2016
Filed Under
Invitations
Letterpress
Tagged with
duplex
giclee
hand-lettering
invitation
letterpress
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