two concurrent exhibitions showcase a breadth of contemporary ceramic practices: 'pure clay', featuring collaborative works by lee ufan and young sook park; and the 'contemporary clay' group show, including pieces by ai wei wei, sterline ruby, and jeff koons.
through extensive research of fossil and anatomical records, humeau attempts to resuscitate the sounds produced by extinct animals by reconstructing their vocal tracts and connecting the works to an artificial breathing apparatus.
responding to the wasteful culture of convenience and consumption, rebecca wilson elevates the paper cup into an art object, with hand-drawn patterns and produced by slip-casting techniques.
measuring just 50 m2, the cafe and bar encourages informal seating arrangements by incorporating a bench-like step into the architecture.
the spinnable double chairs are designed as urban seating, offering a space to rest while encouraging social interaction among both friends and strangers.
Today I’m super excited to feature the wedding invitations from Whitney of Gus & Ruby Letterpress! Whitney and Samantha are two seriously talented stationers, so when it came time for Whitney’s own wedding I was dying to see the invitations! Whitney worked with Love*Jenna Calligraphy, incorporating Jenna’s beautiful script into a bright and colorful invitation suite inspired by dahlias and the bridesmaids’ wedding attire. Cyd from The Sweetest Occasion is featuring the full wedding today, so check out all the beautiful details right here. But now, time for the invitations and coordinating wedding stationery!
From Whitney: The entire wedding was planned around the color of the bridesmaid’s dresses (a vibrant, warm purple shade) and shoes (a bright shade somewhere between peach and coral) and the invitations were no exception. I felt strongly that while I wanted our invitations to be different, I didn’t want to do something so over the top that it didn’t mesh with my and A.K.‘s personalities, which are laid back and fun, but not flashy. This was a struggle for me as a designer, printer and owner of a stationery boutique, but I think I succeeded in the end. Overall I wanted the invitation suite to set the tone for the wedding: a fun, backyard garden-party with saturated mid-August colors.
We used dahlias as our main flower and I created abstract versions of them to use as the design for the paper goods. I didn’t want them to be obvious flowers so I spread them around the invitation at varying sizes and heights so they would feel celebratory – almost in the way fireworks do. We chose Jenna Hein from Love*Jenna Calligraphy to write choice words for each piece because of her playful, whimsical style that also has traditional undertones. The muslin bag came into play because I have never been a big fan of opening an invitation envelope and having numerous pieces fall into my hands. The bag housed all of the pieces and also tied in to the numerous textures we used throughout the wedding.
The biggest challenge aside from the number of runs through the press (most pieces were 4-color) was hand-mixing the inks to match the fabrics. None of the colors I ended up with were actual PMS colors!
In addition to beautiful wedding and rehearsal dinner invitations, Whitney created several coordinating day-of stationery elements, including letterpress ceremony programs that honored the memories of family members, beautiful table numbers, and fun cake menus. And of course, as a stationer, Whitney couldn’t forget to print herself some matching thank you cards!
So pretty! Congratulations again to Whitney, and don’t forget to check out her beautiful wedding right here!
Design and Letterpress Printing: Gus & Ruby Letterpress
Calligraphy: Love *Jenna Calligraphy
Photo Credits: Brea McDonald Photography
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"My husband returns from his deployment exactly three weeks – I can’t wait to have him back home! I’ve mentioned some of the house projects I’ve been trying to finish up before he comes home, and today I thought I’d do something a little different and share the inspiration for our bedroom!
Somehow the bedroom received the least amount of decorating attention after we moved into our apartment in early 2010, so my husband’s 6-month deployment seemed like the perfect time to take the entire room apart and put it back together, bit by bit. So far I’ve painted, ordered the fabric for the curtains, and am in various stages of accumulating the right furniture for the space. We already have two antique dressers and bamboo roman blinds in the room, so the overall look will be on the eclectic side, but I’m really happy with the way everything is coming together.
The headboard is a longer term project that won’t be finished before my husband comes home; eventually I’d love to DIY our own in a style similar to the Room and Board headboard above, but in the Hable Construction fabric that I’ve always loved. Of course, my favorite part so far has been finally getting to hang some amazing artwork that I’ve been accumulating over the last few years. It makes me so happy to see pretty things up on the wall!
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