New shop in town....

As most of you know we took part in the amazing Shoestring Collective pop up shop, which closed it's doors two weeks ago. But we are delighted to announce that we will be supplying a new pop up shop currently open in the Kloof Street Lifestyles Centre. It is called PRESENTspace and will be open until February next year. I think it is a great place to do Christmas shopping, as it has long opening hours.  Have a look at their facebook page:www.facebook.com/PRESENTspaceCT


Another wonderful shop that has just opened, that we are supplying is called SAM (South African Market). It opened it's doors last week and is situated at 107 Bree street, just above La Parada. www.facebook.com/SouthAfricanMarket.
They have a whole host of South African designers involved and it's a very cool space.
They have a wide range of our stock, including some of our last 2014 Artist's Almanacs.

Bon Journals 2.0

Our new Bon Journals are finished!

This year we went for pink and olive with blue and red stiching. We hope you like it.

finally: new artworks

The first of the new artworks are finally for sale at our store.

 Here is some detail from "eclipse" which is a lined artwork by Ben Grib. Selling for R 230.

Printed with coal black ink on Natural evolution paper.

New Artworks

We have designed a whole host of new artworks to celebrate being back at work.
Here is a little sneak peak...

 

They are available on our store store.essieletterpress.co.za

 

Facebook page

We finally have gotten round to starting a very much needed Facebook page.
Address is:
.facebook.com/EssieLetterpress

have a look!

Our new Logo

It has been 6 exciting months since Essie Letterpress went on maternity leave, but all good things come to and end.
To mark our return we decided to give ourselves a bit of a spit and polish. So we got hold of Jordan Metclaf, one of South Africa's premier typographers, to spin some of his magic our way.

The results came our clean and crisp with a lovely classical whimsy splashed all over it.

We hope you like it, we sure do.

Artist Almanac 2014 Line up

I am happy to announce that we have found our 13 artists for the 2014 Almanac. We have a lovely mix of upstarts, superstars, illustrators, artists and typographers.

Here they are:

Cover	Muti
Jan	Hanno van Zyl
Feb	Jason de Villiers
Mar	Alex Latimer
Apr	Bruce Macay
May	Hylton warburton
Jun	Nicolas Rix
Jul	Lize Marie Dreyer
Aug	Nina Torr
Sep	Christi Du Toit
Oct	Lauren Fowler
Nov	Fanakalo
Dec	Andres Pallavicini

Good luck to everyone involved.

Coast to Coasters

We are launching an exiting new project soon called Travel Coasters. It is a set of 9 coasters, each celebrating a different province in South Africa. All the design work is done and now its up that mountain called Printing.
 Here is a preview

A new arrival....

As most of you will have realised we have a little bun in the oven due to arrive any day now.... and we are super, duper excited!

We have designed and printed the Baby shower invites, and will hopefully do the same for the Birth Announcements, although who knows if I will have the time for this?

I will be on Maternity Leave from now until the beginning of August, and as a result will not be able to help you with any printing needs. Ben will however still be available to offer a Design service for those of you who would like to get invites etc designed by us. You can contact him on ben@gribholm.co.za

We are really looking forward to this special time in our lives, and I look forward to getting  back to work later in the year.

Our online store will still be operational during this Maternity period.

Clare and Richard Wedding Invitations

These are the most recent wedding invitations that we have designed and printed.

The bridal couple wanted a Wild Olive Tree to be the central icon of the invitation, with a decorative border around it.

They went with an A6 size, landscape format printed on a textured Cream paper in a handmixed Lilac and Sage Green.

                                                 

Hanneke & Abrie wedding invites

These are our latest printed wedding invitations. They were designed by the Bride, Hanneke, who is a designer.

We paired up a handmixed Sage Green with our Cool Grey, and printed the A5 invites on a textured, Cream paper that is 250gsm thick. The bride opted for brown Manila envelopes to complete the look.

Megan & Waldo wedding invites

We recently printed these A6 size wedding invitations, designed by the bridal couple, who are both designers.
http://meganduplooy.co.za/

http://waldobuchner.co.za/

We hand mixed a light teal and printed them on an Ivory cardstock.

Simone and Jaco Wedding Invites

We printed these wedding invites and envelopes at the end of the year last year.
They were designed by Charle Van Der Walt, a friend of the bride.

We used our Musky Purple on a Cream card stock. Size is A5.

We particularly like the 'Crest' design on the envelopes.

Yellow Submarine Baby Shower invites

This is the baby shower invite that my talented husband designed for our little bundle of joy, who is due to arrive on the 1st of March!

The theme for the little Sir is Yellow Submarine (with a hint of Steve Zizzou).

Here is the electronic Save the Date:

We mixed our own blue and yellow. A picture of a very pregnant me doing the printing.

And the final product....

Happy New Year!

We would like to wish all of our loyal followers and any new visitors to our site very Happy New Year! We hope that it's an exciting and successful one.

We are very excited for the coming year and are hoping to introduce some new products and ranges and to grow Essie Letterpress in the coming year, so watch this space!

Markets

Room Online, one of our online stockists is taking part in the Annual Sanlam Food, Wine, Design Fair held in JHB, which starts today and runs through to Sunday. So if you are in the area, pop in.

foodwinedesign.co.za


We are also taking part in the Treasury Christmas Market in Stellenbosch next Saturday, 1st December from 9am until 2pm. We will be selling the last of our Artist Almanacs, Bon Journal notebooks and various artworks, as well as some Christmas tags and cards. Pop in for some early Christmas shopping.

Wedding Invites

We recently printed these simple, yet elegant Wedding invites for Far and Wide Design

We managed to get a lovely, deep impression. Printed in Cool Grey ink on an Ivory Cardstock, 330gsm thick.

Julme Baby Shower Invites

We printed these adorable baby shower invites a while ago, but I am posting them now, as the suprise baby shower was this past Saturday.

The expectant mom-to-be's sister approached us to design something for a boy in Teal with a hot air balloon on it.

It is printed on our Cream, Rives Tradition paper, and has the image on the front cover, the wording on the inside page and then a little section for the guest to write a message to Julme to attach to the gift on the inside opposite cover.

Bon Journals

We have just got our lined notebooks back from the binders and are so excited!
We have got two different designs, printed in Delft Blue and Tiger Orange respectively. They are both lined with 100 pages each and have a lovely gold foil on the cover.
We will be launching these at Kamersvol Geskenke next week.

Final Artist Almanac preview

Next week we will start to show you how the printing came out