NobleHeart Gallery: Love Letters Art Show Exhibit

This past Friday night Paprika Letterpress was part of the “Love Letters” themed art show exhibit. The gallery exhibit was presented at The Nobleheart gallery in Jenkintown, PA. The show featured a variety of artists ranging from tattoo artists, calligraphers, and contemporary illustrators all making items by hand using different mediums; the core theme of “love letters” was creating pieces using art and letterforms. 

Paprika Letterpress contributed three framed letterpress pieces and had a blast attending the exhibit’s opening last week. A big thank you to Jason Maybruck owner of the Noble Heart Gallery and Tattoo Studio and Steven Wright, artist and curator of the show.  Thanks to the Studio for inviting us to be part of such a diverse group showing event.

To learn more about the Nobleheart Gallery and to see other works from the show visit their Facebook page here: http://on.fb.me/17giGnx   

If you are tattoo enthusiast, check them out at the Tattoo Convention this weekend (Feb. 14) at Convention Hall, Philadelphia.

Visiting Jenkintown, PA over the next month? Make sure to stop by The Nobleheart Gallery. The Love Letters show will still be up and it’s definitely worth checking out.

Custom Printing: Hang Tags for Bombshell Bands

We recently just finished a collaboration with Suzanne Martinelli, an entrepreneur owner of Bombshell Bands a custom product within Suzanne's Bombshell Beauty products line. The product Bombshell Bands is unique headband designed female athletes and gym goers. When Suzanne reached out to us, she already had a graphic symbol of a girl with ponytail as a brand image but asked us to further enhance her graphic trademark into a more recognizable logo for her product. After some digital edits to the art we successfully provided a better graphic symbol that connected Suzanne's original logo to her Bombshell Bands brand.

Afterwards we letterpress printed the new graphic symbol on kraft stock paper with a custom die cut hole at the top of each print. These prints have now become tactile product hang tags for Suzanne's products. 

Provided through the following photos are samples of the hang tags we created and packaged for Suzanne.

To learn more about Suzanne's Bombshell Beauty products, check out here products via the following websites.

Bombshell Beauty Official Website: http://bombshellbeauty.com/

Bombshell Beauty on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BombshellBeautyCompany

And of course, make sure you look out for these headbands at your local stores and gyms!

Good luck to Bombshell Bands and for any other entrepreneur's looking for unique design and printing assistance, make sure to talk to us about your next project.

AIGA Philly: Pop-Up Shop 2014

The end of 2014 brought a wonderful exposure and selling opportunity to the Paprika Letterpress & Design studio. Our studio was featured part of the AIGA Philadelphia chapter's holiday season Pop-Up Shop. The Pop-Up Shop was housed at AIGA Philly’s Old City gallery called SPACE. The event showcased a diverse collection of one-of-kind art and design related goods created by the AIGA Philadelphia chapter members. 

We had a great time meeting other AIGA members at the Pop-Up shop's kick-off party that was part Old City Philadelphia's December First Friday celebration. Last weekend marked the Pop-Up Shop's closing, but we look forward collaborating with AIGA Philly again in the near future. Many thanks to the AIGA Philadelphia chapter and Gaby Heit for letting us be part of such a wonderful event in such great company.

Provided with this posting are is a photo of our setup at the 2014 AIGA Philadelphia Pop-Up Shop.

To learn more about the Philadelphia AIGA chapter and their Pop-Up Shop, gallery and other events for creatives, visit them online here: philadelphia.aiga.org.

Holiday House Tour- we were there!

Last Saturday Paprika was a stop on the Greater Woodbury Garden Club Holiday House Tour. Lots of fun and plenty of holiday spirit. We demonstrated our C&P and printed a Merry Christmas gift enclosure for tour patrons. Beautiful tour with many unique properties and plenty of decor inspiration!

'It's the season! Visit us at the Reading Terminal Market- Fridays and Saturdays in December. Lots of cards and prints for the holidays.

Letterpress at Eastern Market, Detroit

We Stopped by Signal return and Cedar and Salt- 2 letterpress shops in the Eastern Market complex of buildings, outdoor vendors, burgers, produce, music, plants and cool vintage finds. 

This was part of a workshop being presented by the amazing, amazing, so talented, Chicago based letterpress company-Starshaped press. 

Paprika goes the extra mile for our clients.

We are working on a beautifully designed  wedding invitation and these colors were chosen. The project prints on a beautiful Crane, 100% cottonpaper-Ecru. Ecru is a French vanilla white (my words) Because inks can change on paper depending on the color printed , (inks are largely transparent) we provided these ink samples to our client to be certain that the PMS colors were perfect.