Over the last week, I have spent many a late night playing with AI image generation on Midjourney with what can only be described as frenzied compulsion. Since my friend Winston showed me that you can set up an account on Discord, join a chatroom called Newbies, and type the phrase /imagine…to have a machine spit out a visual of whatever you imagine in less than a minute…I’ve been amazed, amused, addicted, impressed, and inspired beyond all measure.
Incidentally, the last time I remember feeling this way was exactly a decade ago, when I was sitting in the incredible bookstore Arcana in Los Angeles…and beginning to vaguely form in my mind what is today known as The Letterist. The wave of ideas and possibilities and imaginations of everything I could and would create was intoxicating. I’ve longed for that feeling ever since, and I never imagined something called Artificial Intelligence would turn out to be what did it for me.
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The Letterist 2024 Letterpress Desk Calendar
Thrilled to share the latest edition of our beloved letterpress desk calendar is now available in the online shop. Page per month, blind embossed months in a downright sexy typeface, and two letterpress ink runs for the days, months and inspirational quotes. Resting on a custom made acrylic holder in dark grey, and packaged in a sleek bubble mailer. In 2024 we will celebrate ten years of Love on Paper and in honor of the anniversary, this edition is truly our most special one yet.
Read MoreA Verdant Kind of Love; Scottish Highlands Elopement featured in Magnolia Rouge
We know the city elopement imagery well. The couple gets ready in a hipster design hotel in downtown New York, LA, London, or Paris…there are some intimate moments in front of city hall, a stylish walk to their favorite coffee shop, bakery, or pizza place…some laughter, some kisses, a few amused onlookers, great sunglasses, and inevitably, two sidewalk-served pretty coupes of champagne.
But now its time for something a little different. Moody and dramatic landscapes, verdant autumnal florals, all the warm and woody shades of terracotta, and just enough wind to blow you back into the pages of Wuthering Heights. There is something decidedly romantic and cinematic about this elopement in the Scottish Highlands, (in what was once the holiday home of Constance Spry), and yet all the details are strikingly modern, minimal, and right on trend.
A little sip of scotch in Ferm Living’s ripple glasses, Kamperett’s iconic wrap around Adelaide gown, Laure de Sagazan’s romantic angora gilet, Moss Floral’s effortlessly composed Ikebana-inspired bouquet, and our most minimal stationery collection, The Curator, offering all the white space, blind embossing, vellum layers, and soft nude tones to complement and balance out the richly verdant landscape and moody color palette. All this captured by one of our favorite wedding photographers, Taylor and Porter, on 35mm film.
Scroll down, fall in love, and discover this dramatic yet simple way to say I Do.
Project X for Design and Paper's 10th Anniversary
Last year, we were honored to be commissioned by Europapier to create a work in celebration of the 10th anniversary of their online magazine and inspiration resource, Design&Paper. Having worked with the Europapier Design Papers catalogues for half a decade, and found in them so much inspiration for countless projects and color palettes, I was immediately tempted to reimagine their catalogue, curate our very own famously “colorless” Letterist edit of tones and textures, and gift it back to them in a bound and framed block. As Dieter Rams wrote, “Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.” We then laser cut an X (Roman Numeral 10) onto the front…which wonderfully added one more sepia nuance to the mix. A big thank you to the team at Europapier for inviting us to participate, and to the many hands, printers, bookbinders, and framers that made it happen. Read more about the process and this project in the the full article on Design&Paper here.
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