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 went to town doing them in 4 colors. We did 3 main color changes, along with some miscellaneous trials to essentially print over a dozen colors.

what follows are various shots of the month long process:

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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:

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Makers Market Cards

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)

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Type Around the Studio

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 themselves are just lovely.

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Letterpress Lately

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.

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Patrick’s Neon Bicycle

Our pals over at Lite Brite Neon recently created a bicycle out of neon tubes inspired by Patrick’s ride, which was designed and manufactured by Alternative Needs Transportation. It’s for the Sony Madison Avenue store.

last market + field trip

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 in this typeface.

more pictures from the market and a special field trip after the jump

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preparation anticipation

The Market at the Old American Can Factory

This Sunday from 11am–6pm Swayspace will be participating in The Market at the Old American Can Factory. We will be selling sets of our antique handset Thank You stationery as well as custom-printing-while-you-wait stationery.

1. Set of 6 folded Thank You notes – $15
2. Set of 20 flat customized notecards – $40
3. Set of 20 folded custom notecards – $45

Here are more details and directions to our building. Come on by and support Brooklyn craft and manufacture!