The Journal

Be inspired by wedding invitation design, letterpress, and other pretty paper goods.

Mise En Place (Everything In Its Place, Including Your Guests)

This is part thirty-one of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! So, our final post today is going to explain how “place cards” differ from escort cards, which we learned about yesterday. Escort cards, as we know, includes a guest name […]

Read On

Big Little Details: Escort Cards

This is part thirty of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! Welp, we’re down to our last two one-a-day’s in May! We wanted to explain these last two terms close together because they are often confused with each other but they […]

Read On

Find Your Seat!

This is part twenty-nine of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! One design element of modern weddings that has creatively evolved the most over the years is the seating chart. The requirements for a seating chart are simple enough, some sort […]

Read On

Signed, [Wax] Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours!

This is part twenty-eight of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! Dating back to the middle ages, wax seals were originally used to seal important documents and letters for secure passage to their addressee. Heated wax was poured over the seam […]

Read On

Pantone is the Dewey Decimal System of Color

This is part twenty-seven of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! Pantone is a universal color classification system used by graphic designers, stationers, and many other artists around the world. The system assigns numeric values for every color (there are over […]

Read On

Letterpress: The OG of printed word.

This is part twenty-six of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! Letterpress printing is a technique that involves relief printing on thicker paper where the design is pressed into the paper with a printing press. Letterpress printing is the oldest traditional […]

Read On

What do you mean when you talk about a printing “plate?”

This is part twenty-five of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! In the early days of professional printing, typesetters accumulated huge collections of tiny wood- or metal-carved letters. They would gather all the letters and punctuation required for a sentence or […]

Read On

What does a foil-pressed invitation look like?

This is part twenty-four of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! Ever see a dark card, maybe black or navy blue, with a beautiful, almost-glowing, gold design on it? I can say with almost 100% certainty that it was created using […]

Read On

White-Ink Printing: There’s more to it than you know!

This is part twenty-three of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! White-ink printing is becoming increasingly popular due, in some part to trends, but also because there are more ways than ever before to achieve this beautiful effect. White-ink printing was […]

Read On

© 2024 knapp design co. 

info@knappdesignco.com
Made with ❤️ in Denver, Colorado
Be nice & don’t steal. 

Site Map