After about two months, the Feltron 2009 Annual Report is officially completely printed! I don’t think anyone quite understood the magnitude of the job until it was well underway. It’s the biggest job Swayspace has printed, and in the end it was definitely worth the massive effort by everyone involved. You may have viewed the [...]
Most projects that come to Swayspace by way of letterpress are either wedding invitations or business cards, but every once in a while something different gets thrown into the mix. We were incredibly excited when friend of Swayspace, Nicholas Felton, decided to have us letterpress print his Feltron 2009 Annual Report. The report is sixteen pages [...]
Happy Holidays from Swayspace! In preparation/celebration/anticipation of the holiday season, we’ve been printing some holiday themed stationery to be sold at the Makers Market here at the OAC Factory on Sundays.
Having been the ironic printers without business cards for some time, it’s incredibly exciting to finally have fresh sets in our hands. It was a long process of Patrick doing several designs and everyone voting on their favorites. We finally settled on a design and what followed was another long process of printing. We really [...]
Patrick has been designing business cards for kids so parents can set up play-dates. It’s part of a new business card system we’re starting with pre-made designs and colors (shoot us and email: studio@swayspace.com if you’re interested). Of course, for kid-business cards, you gotta break out the rainbow roll:
A quick hand-set type project for The Market that we’ve been peddling our stationary at on Sundays. (This is what we pulled those fonts out for)
The other day, we pulled out a bunch of foundry type for a lead type project (post on that to come later). We were looking for some Futura, but I don’t think we ended up finding the right size. In anycase, lots of other type goodness came out of storage. The labels on the fonts [...]
Remember Ben’s teaser post, preparation anticipation ? It turned into this: The shop has been pretty busy the past couple months, here’s a bit of what that side of Swayspace has been up to.
Some pictures from the last ‘Makers Market’ at the Old American Can Factory I decided to branch out from the usual thank you notes, and went with some gold and a lovely purple for my set that day. Here’s the setup for the last card I printed—of course I had to go for ‘howdy’ if [...]
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