I LOVE this quote they featured about architect Le Corbusier by colleague Jerzy Soltan: During these early August days, I learned quite a bit about Le Corbusier’s daily routine. His schedule was rigidly organized. I remember how touched I was by his Boy Scout earnestness: at 6 AM, gymnastics and . . . painting, a kind of fine-arts calisthenics; at …
Atelier Thursday: New Landing Page!
Unveiling our new landing page! Its been something I’ve wanted to do for awhile. I felt that the old landing page while having the suspense quality that I wanted, did not reveal enough of what the studio does. This new and improved version has more information (in a nutshell, of course) about our products and services as well as a …
Envelope Flap Easel for Save the Date!
Here’s a new video from our Youtube Channel demonstrating how the envelope flaps of our Jane invitations/save-the-dates can be formed into a self-supporting easel. No additional materials, glue or wastage!
Atelier Thursday: Simple Pleasures
An ongoing calendar project of the little things in life that makes me smile. This is a snapshot of the past year’s pleasures…. What are your simple pleasures in life?
A little inspired Monday….
I found this little leaf that I drew a few weeks back and wanted to share it, it made me smile!
Wedding Charette: A Story of Fate
Nick originally wanted letterpress-ed invitations on a simple, rectangular classy card to go with the elegant wood-panelled banquet halls in the exclusive English-styled club where the wedding dinner would take place. After a tricky bout with printers and concern over time, budget and quality, he wanted to explore possible alternatives and presented me with his dilemma. Early inspirational images included …
A Wedding Charette: A Thai Buddhist Wedding for an Irish couple from Australia!
This latest charette was most intriguing and captivated me from the start. A couple after my own heart, with a wedding and a story that spans three continents and crosses 2 cultures! Claire and Stephen (or Digo and Joycer) hailed from Ireland and met and fell in love at a local music festival. Fast forward to today, they now live …
Did you know you can schedule an Initial Consultation with us?
How do you know if custom artwork invitations are your thing? Here’s the good news, not many realize that we offer initial consultation charettes, either through Etsy or our official website. It is buried within our services so I have decided to bring it up to the front page. There is a $95 fee, fully creditable towards the final package …
Atelier Tuesday: of Books, Gardens and Sunflowers
A little peek into the latest wedding storybooklet creation for KC and Greg inspired by Mrs Spitzer’s Garden, cheerful sunflowers and little sweethearts. Pen and ink and watercolor custom illustration and printed on lovely Japanese washi paper in an accordian fold-out style. Comes with a thick classic Baronial-style envelope handmade from Nepalese Lotka paper! There is a wonderful little quote …
Atelier Thursday: Romancing the Letter…
Remember The Jane post here? Well today, I glued, wax sealed and return-address stamped (custom calligraphy) 130 of these individual hand-folded envelope ‘letter’ save the dates, the old fashioned (well, almost) way! It makes me want to gather my hair up in curls, don a long lace dress and put my feet in dainty satin slippers!