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Wedding Invitations by Smock, II
Amy Stigler, designer of the fab new line of wedding invitations, Smock, has been sweet enough to share with us the inspirations behind her gorgeous designs…
From Amy…
Without sounding cliche, I do glean inspiration from just about everything. I am constantly snapping photos or drawing quick sketches of visuals that inspire me. I would say that much of my inspiration for the Smock wedding line came directly from nature. But I do try to offer a stylized ‘reading’ of natural objects — using line, shape & color to give the natural elements a bit of a graphic or modern edge.
Speaking of wedding stationery, I am so excited to introduce you guys to Smock…a brand new line of sustainable letterpress, recently launched at the National Stationery Show. Designed by Amy Graham Stigler who also founded Snow & Graham (a company that I have loved since the moment I saw their work, nearly 5 years ago), the invitations are pretty and sophisticated and yet, they are totally eco-chic. Love that.
In a nutshell, Smock designs are letterpressed sustainably on bamboo paper…they are the first print shop in the U.S. to print on a luxury bamboo paper, developing the process with a historic paper mill in Europe. Here is how the girls at Smock put it…
