Illustrated in Adobe Draw. Digitally printed at a local print shop. A tomatoey holiday card, pretty self-explanatory.
My first love.
Stationery is where it all started for me. Little printed magic that is nested in a beautiful paper envelope, the intersection of words and visual, artwork that exists to be given to someone to say something that can’t be communicated another way, and that message can be held and kept. Maybe I was sad to outgrow the passing-notes-in-class phase of life and wanted to extend it into my work and personal practice.
But here we are, and here’s a smattering of the stationery I’ve conceptualized, designed, illustrated — sometimes printed myself — and mailed. Or that I was hired to make, which continues to be a dream.
Illustrated in Adobe Illustrator. Digitally printed. My end-of-the-year card celebrating another trip around the sun, for surviving pandemic life, and continuing forward with a little more light.
For Holstee. Illustrated in Adobe Draw. Two-color letterpress (with overlay) on cotton paper.
For Holstee. Illustrated in Adobe Illustrator. One-color letterpress + holographic foil on cotton paper.
Hand-lettered addresses on envelopes — with a little added pizazz.
For Holstee. Illustrated in Adobe Illustrator. One-color letterpress.
For Holstee. Illustrated on paper, scanned and edited in Adobe Photoshop. One-color letterpress.
Illustrated in Adobe Illustrator for Ipad. Digitally printed.
For Holstee. Illustrated in Adobe Draw. Two-color letterpress (split fountain process) on cotton paper.
Illustrated in Adobe Illustrator. Digitally printed with a local print shop. My 2021 end-of-the-year card, inspired by a Bill Withers song, celebrating the little loveliness of a regular ol’ day.
Illustrated in Procreate. Digitally printed.
For Holstee. Illustrated in Adobe Draw. Two-color letterpress on cotton paper.
For Holstee. Illustrated in Adobe Illustrator. Two-color letterpress (with overlay) on cotton paper.
For Holstee. Illustrated in Adobe Illustrator. One-color letterpress.
Illustrated in Adobe Illustrator. Digitally printed.
I created this set of postcards to send to my friends for Valentines Day in 2017. It felt right at the time to keep things real. The less provocative options were used to write letters to members of Congress who refuse to protect the civil rights of all, regardless of sexual identity, gender, race, socioeconomic status, religion, or immigration status, and others were turned into signs carried in protest marches.
Specs: 4x6” digitally-printed postcard in three designs.
Process: Drawn in Adobe Draw (Illustrator for iPad).