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Posts in the category Letterpress

Get Yer Sweetheart Cards Here!

Love is in the air, or at least the smell of ink and California Wash.  Yes!  We’ve been busy bees in recent weeks, designing and printing a fabulous collection of sweetheart cards. From Top Left Clockwise: Loves Me/Loves Me Not, Mini Love Blind, The Girls, Mini Sweetheart Note Set Varied in style and sentiment, there [...]


Posted
8 December 2011

Categories
Letterpress, News

We’re in a Show! New York Writes Itself

In June of this year, we were invited to participate in a letterpress show for a project called New York Writes Itself. New York Writes Itself (NYWI) is an amorphous creative production where the inspiration is created not by one person, rather an entire city of potential scribes. Overheard conversations, glimpsed interactions or in-your-face encounters all [...]


Posted
24 June 2010

Categories
Letterpress, News

Knot Practical

Have you ever wondered how you might survive in the wild? Well, we at Swayspace certainly have: where the closest thing to the natural world are the mosquitoes that divebomb from the Gowanus in the summer. What could we urban soldiers and keyboard jockeys do if we had to camp out in Central Park if [...]


Posted
24 May 2010

Categories
Letterpress, News, Studio

We’re in an Art Show

We are excited to announce Swayspace’s participation in a show highlighting the work of master craftsmen and artisans working in New York City. The show is part of the LVMH-sponsored project The Art of Craftsmanship Revisited: New York and opens this Wednesday 26 May. The show will be open to the public June 5 – [...]


Posted
6 May 2010

Categories
Letterpress, News

The Feltron 2009 Annual Report : Behind the Scenes

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 [...]


Posted
10 February 2010

Categories
Letterpress, News

Preview : 2009 Feltron Annual Report

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 [...]


Posted
1 December 2009

Categories
Ephemera, Letterpress

Holiday Cards

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.


taking care of business cards

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 [...]


Posted
29 October 2009

Categories
Letterpress

Rainbow Roll

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:


Posted
22 October 2009

Categories
Ephemera, Letterpress

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