I think my goal was mid-October, and definitely I had many more holiday designs in mind, but! I did it – as of today we have a wee Etsy store and are selling two cards and DC coasters online.
The newest holiday card is above. Since it looks like two designs will be my limit [...]

A simple postcard I made as a change of address card for a colleague, with photopolymer and lead on a smooth brown paper. Because we weren’t going to use an envelope, I was afraid Crane’s Lettra, which I’ve used for most projects, would get smudgy in the mail, so I decided on this paper. A [...]

Here’s Lauren & Russ’s baby announcement, described earlier in Monkey Evolution. It was sent out long ago but I’m just getting around to posting it. Love the ampersand in Bernhard Modern.

I’ve got a backlog of new work to post, but have to start with these. Quite some time ago the striking similarity between the the shape of DC and the shape of a paper coaster dawned on me, to the tune of The Magnetic Field’s song Washington, DC. I think there are a lot of [...]

This is actually the first project where I’ve centered type instead of left-aligning. It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be to space out on each side and get it locked up.

It looks neon on the press, but it’s actually a really great green – I lightened it and took a lot of blue out of the original tone.

In my latest project, a birth announcement for good friends, the design of the main graphic has evolved in a really nice, organic way.
Lauren and I started talking about the tone they wanted to strike, and we liked the idea of being a little funny. They’re funny and sarcastic people – not the type to [...]

I’m really proud of this holiday card – actually both the holiday cards Wes and I made this year, because we relied solely on our lead type and ornaments.
All those stars are itty bitty individual pieces of lead type, aligned and packed together tight. I’m not at all opposed to photopolymer and will use it [...]