Holiday Cards

Posted 1 December 2009 by Willy
Categories: Letterpress

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.

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Taking Care of Business Cards

Posted 24 November 2009 by Willy
Categories: Design, Letterpress, News, Studio

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.

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what follows are various shots of the month long process:

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these colors are my favorite combination

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the full set, fronts and backs, finally realized

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Rainbow Roll

Posted 29 October 2009 by Willy
Categories: Letterpress

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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This is a Public Service Announcement

Posted 22 October 2009 by Willy
Categories: Ephemera

Makers Market Cards

Posted 5 October 2009 by Willy
Categories: Letterpress, News

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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We're also starting an exploration in printing business cards with the metal type for smaller business card runs that'd be a little more cost effective if you're just interested in some nice letterpress cards done in the metal fonts that we've got handy. Drop us a note (studio@swayspace.com) if you're interested in learning more!

The first color/lockup on press

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second color lockup

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fin.

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