The Card Designer Highlight is a collection that includes impartial makers whose greeting playing cards you could find in Paper Supply shops. Meet and be impressed by a brand new designer each month on our weblog!
2024 was a yr stuffed with stunning stationery! We realized how 12 uniquely artistic card designers make their artwork come to life by means of totally different processes and inspiration. One thing that every of those designers have in widespread is that their playing cards have been deliberately created whether or not that’s for particular moments or evoking emotion of their recipients.
As we enter a brand new yr, let’s remind ourselves how one can be extra intentional in our everyday life from the experience of our featured playing cards designers and their playing cards that make us really feel extra linked!
1. Quilling Card Co. reminds us that the method is definitely worth the final result.
Every design is fastidiously created and crafted with love and care by our extraordinary crew of designers, illustrators, and artisans. The event of every design is really distinctive in the place the inspiration originated, the artistic execution, and its rounds of enhancements resulting in the ultimate design. Whenever you give a Quilling Card, you aren’t simply giving a greeting card, you might be gifting a handmade murals.
2. Heartland Playing cards reminds us that placing your self on the market might be rewarding.
I discovered myself making greeting playing cards at my desk for co-workers, and ultimately for his or her associates. I designed a tiny line of playing cards and confirmed them to a paper retailer across the nook from my condo in Brooklyn. The store proprietor bought some playing cards! In success, a buyer that bought a card from the shop contacted me on etsy to make a child bathe invite… and the invite was for a purchaser from Anthropologie. I despatched the client samples, she bought a pair playing cards, and my line and enterprise grew and grew. Quickly after, Paper Supply discovered my work by means of a submit on Design Sponge. I’ve been so fortunate and I like what I do, and I hope it reveals.
3. Shorthand Press reminds us that generally curiosity can lead us to our subsequent journey.
A few years in the past, I discovered myself drawn to this little retailer in Seattle. I might go in and simply take a look at the greeting playing cards, really feel the paper, learn the phrases, take a look at the again to see who made them, after which attempt to discover out extra concerning the firm and one who had made the playing cards. I realized that the printing technique that I noticed on these playing cards that I used to be so drawn to was known as letterpress printing. I discovered a category and realized how one can print on a letterpress, purchased my very own press and began printing enterprise playing cards and wedding ceremony invites.
4. 2021Co reminds us that we will all the time be studying from the individuals and the wonder round us.
(Nicole) For me, inspiration comes from the human expertise. How are individuals feeling? What messages are most in want and the way can we make them stunning and accessible. (Emily) I discover inspiration in all places, and I’m consistently snapping photos and taking screenshots. Issues you could find in my digicam roll: distinctive coloration combos, lettering, sample and foliage! That mentioned, phrases are critically necessary in each card we create.
5. Gotamago reminds us that generally essentially the most particular moments can come from the smallest gestures.
Over time, I’ve come to grasp that playing cards are an especially democratic method to share artwork. Whereas authentic work will not be reasonably priced for everybody, a greeting card makes for an accessible and versatile piece of decor. When our prospects share their pictures of playing cards framed on their partitions, I’m heartened to know that my artwork is part of their on a regular basis lives.
6. Paper Baristas reminds us to help causes which are necessary to us.
In a world stuffed with digital communications, the artwork of handwritten notes and customized stationery holds a novel appeal. We draw inspiration from various sources, however on the coronary heart of all of it are the tales of our staff and the causes we help. From selling psychological well being consciousness to advocating for environmental sustainability, our merchandise function a canvas to amplify these necessary messages.
7. Brittany Paige reminds us to find time for our passions.
Born out of an obsession with popular culture and whereas navigating early maturity in New York Metropolis, I began my enterprise with simply six greeting playing cards (all centered round break-ups). In the course of the nights and weekends of my company design job within the vogue trade, I began illustrating playing cards that mirrored my private pursuits and social traits. Aspect hustle ultimately turned full-time gig, these six OG playing cards have grown into the stationery and present enterprise that you simply see as we speak — a model that creates items for the women that get it.
8. Ramona & Ruth reminds us to take pleasure in our personal journey.
I’m happy with how I’ve constructed my enterprise steadily and slowly. Generally it’s laborious to go searching and see different’s successes and the way they’re rising at a faster price than you, however wanting again, I’m completely happy I took it sluggish. This has allowed me to construct a robust enterprise basis whereas additionally permitting me to be current with my household. I’m actually proud to consider how far I’ve come!
9. Amy Heitman reminds us to unfold pleasure every time we will.
I’m so grateful for the chance to have the ability to create and see my concepts come to life, and to create one thing others can use to unfold a bit of affection and pleasure on the earth. My favourite factor is listening to somebody acquired certainly one of my playing cards and I like that folks select to ship them to these they love stuffed with considerate phrases.
10. Little Could Papery reminds us to go away room for every day enjoyable and playful moments.
I discover my inspiration for Little Could Papery within the candy and easy moments. I like utilizing puns and phrase play, in addition to giving little personalities to inanimate objects – like a smiley cup of espresso or a pizza slice with legs and arms. I like to weave that silliness into my designs. There’s one thing so beautiful a couple of card that makes you smile, cry or giggle out loud. I wish to mix these playful touches into my designs, creating playing cards that permit for connection and add a contact of caprice to on a regular basis moments.
11. Verrier Handcrafted reminds us to show one thing bitter into one thing candy.
At the moment, I believed I used to be on my method to be a designer with the blessing of my clothes being positioned subsequent to Marc Jacobs. With out getting too gloom-ridden, there was the sting of the monetary disaster in 2008 that hit the style world laborious. That offered a dilemma, as a younger designer, to get artistic with reinventing myself. Curiously sufficient, this problem discovered me revisiting the a part of vogue design that I loved essentially the most – drawing vogue….I refashioned a few of these paper vogue gals into playing cards I might ship to my grandmother. She truly instructed me to contemplate a greeting card enterprise.
12. Gray Road Paper reminds us to search for consolation once we want it to maneuver ahead.
I like figuring out that my artwork and concepts carry consolation, pleasure, and happiness to individuals’s lives. One in every of my favourite card designs is a sympathy/help card impressed by a saying from my grandma. Every time I mentioned “goodbye,” she would all the time reply, “It’s not goodbye, it’s so lengthy for now!” This card will probably be accessible in Paper Supply shops in 2025. It means a lot to me that her phrases will carry consolation to others.
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