Invitation design

Now that I've begun thinking about what we're going to do for this First Tuesday brief, and obviously invitation and ticket design springs to mind so I got on 'the google' to see what was what. I found some really nice examples of invitation design in particular. Granted we are focusing mainly on tickets above invitations but I feel that this area still needs to be looked into. It's quite difficult to find ticket design without hitting thousands of websites advertising 'design your own tickets!' Which are pretty bad.

I am most definitely a type-based designer.  Yes I can appreciate image and think that it works really well, like the lovely teapot on the below invitation, but I don't like it as the main focus of a design. I'm not an Illustrator and definitely lean more towards a lovely bit of type when given the option.

I love love to see the rest of the range that goes with the below image, as I think it's a really nice piece of type design and I think that it works really well, setting a whimsical and fantastical sort of tone while still being quite 'proper'.

I love the format of this one and the fact that it comes in a tube, rolled up, and then rolls out into the massive long piece of type design that quite literally tells a story. I would be far more intrigued to receive something like this than the generic invitations that everybody receives.

Letterpress. I love letterpress, though I don't know how to do it. Yet. That's going to change very soon as me and Becca are going down to the Vernon street site to do a letterpress induction with Roger. I've wanted to try it for ages though haven't really had a reason too, and Vernon Street is kind of out of the way for me.

I think that letterpress is a way of making simple type look even more interesting, and I'm definitely one of these people who likes to touch. I love texture and embossing and so letterpress just combines both.

It works just as well in simple black and white as well as shockingly bright colours. I really like the long thin layout of the type on these pieces. This is definitely inspiring to step outside of general paper sizes like A-format and make something more interesting to behold.

I love this purely for the fact that it has a spoon on it, which adds somethign extra special to the invitation even if it is just a spoon.

And of course, more unusual invitations, like these wedding invitations placed in cans, which are then used to tie to the back of the wedding car so as well as being an invitation, an interesting one, the can itself has a second life.