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Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
We have been so fortunate to have Carolyn Fraser from Idlewild Press on the Guest Blog this week and we have loved every minute of Looking into Letterpress with her. A big thank you Carolyn for such a beautiful week! Remember to check out Carolyn's blog here and if you are interested in a hands-on letterpress experience Carolyn runs classes too! - Jenny x
Everyone should have a calling card. Not a business card, but a personal card with just enough information for someone to find you again. In the 18th and 19th centuries, elaborate etiquette governed the use of calling cards in social visiting. Turning down the upper left-hand corner of your card vs. the lower left was the difference between sending congratulations and expressing condolence. We moderns often bemoan confusing sms-speak (a friend only recently learned that LOL does not mean Lots of Love), but the 19th century was a social minefield as well, and the calling card was one of its primary technologies. These days, a calling card is a welcome respite from having to remember someone's e-mail address or their Twitter name. And gentlemen, let me tell you: it's a very classy way to introduce yourself to a dame. I'd be checking you out on Facebook, for sure.
If I wasn't a printer myself, I'd be asking James Taylor at Taylor'd Press to make my set. Letterpress is a side-line to James' offset printing business, and he combines the two in ingenious ways. Here are some lovely examples of his work:
Offset solid backs, grey letterpressed fronts onto Stpehen Chilled white 330gsm card. Designed by Monkey C.
Business cards letterpress printed on drink coaster 390gsm. Designed by Phil Campbell.
Letterpress printed on Stephen Smart White 330gsm card. Business cards perforated, bound into books of 30′s with a wrap-around cover. Designed by studio worldwide.
Offset printed 2 sides and Black Letterpressed front onto Drink Coaster 390gsm. Designed by The Design Baker.
Letterpress printed on Drink Coaster 390gsm card. Designed by Maythorpe.
Offset black printed then Blind Letterpressed on Stephen Smart white 330gsm card. Designed by Light Creative.
- Carolyn x
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