I’m honored to have been asked to be the guest judge for the most recent Smock Paper Design Contest. The contest is a semi-annual celebration of Smock’s favorite retailer customizations, and this time around I had the chance to choose my favorites, too. Let me tell you, it was very difficult to pick my top [...]

I’m so excited to welcome Sweet Harvey Letterpress as the newest advertiser on Paper Crave. I’ve been a fan of Sweet Harvey’s letterpress lovelies for some time, and I always look forward to what Brandi Powell, the owner and creative behind Sweet Harvey, will design next. Adorable baby shower invitations and birth announcements, wedding invites, [...]

I love it when I can see peeks at the techniques used to create fantastic paper goods, and I’m absolutely enthralled by the new collection of letterpress greeting cards from Starshaped Press. The Blox series features four designs, each created by painstakingly hand setting each little block (as in the photo above —yep, every little [...]

I have to say that The Social Type’s letterpress baby congratulations cards are probably the most swoonworthy baby congrats cards that I’ve ever seen. The combination of letterpress and foil stamping (silver foil for boys and gold foil for girls) is absolute perfection, and I’m completely taken with the lovely typography and star and stripe [...]

I’m amazed by these Virtues of Man letterpress prints from YASLY, a Florida based design collective “comprised of fellow musicians, leather craftsman, letterpress artisans, house wives and carpenters”. The imagery in these prints is so powerful and brings to mind Freemason imagery and da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. White Pewter Black And I’m in complete awe [...]