Worth its weight in paper: I love stationery – in pictures

In honour of National Stationery Day, a new book celebrates some inspirational craftsmen and women from across the globe, working in paper and card, detailling their techniques and design preferences
  
  


I Love Stationery: Anja Jane
By Anja Jane, UK
This owl card was created from a limited-edition screen print. The image was first drawn in pen and ink and then scanned and tidied up to made into a screen. it was then screen-printed using two layers.
Photograph: Jacqui Small
Photograph: Action images
I Love Stationery: Belinda stationery
By Belinda, USA
Each card Belinda creates starts with an image or a phrase. Vong then hand draws the image onto the card before stitching it. She uses only white thread on coloured card. The text is typed out on an electronic typewriter, cut out, and then glued in place.
Photograph: Jacqui Small
I Love Stationery: Corrupiola & Thereza Rowe
By Corrupiola and Thereza Rowe, Brazil/ UK
The illustrations were created first as rough pencil sketches and then drawn in more detail using a graphic tablet and Adobe Illustrator. The notebook was screen printed by hand on acid-free Pollen 90gsm stock for the body and Duo 300gsm design paper for the cover.
Photograph: Jacqui Small
I Love Stationery: Gemma Correll stationery
By Gemma Correll, Germany
Both of these cards were created for a collaborative group project called "Love to Print" and were produced and sold for Valentine's Day. The original hand-drawn images were scanned and imported into Adobe Photoshop to be prepared for printing on a Gocco printer.
Photograph: Jacqui Small
I Love Stationery: Heidi Burton stationery
By Heidi Burton, UK
Burton works with Tombow double-ended pens or Rotring or Pilot fineliner ink pens. She also uses 2B or 3B pencils for her sketches and drawings. She applies colour directly onto the paper using brush pens or watercolour paints.
Photograph: Jacqui Small
I Love Stationery: Old Tom Follery
By Old Tom Foolery, USA
These cards were printed on a cylinder press by San Francisco-based Dependable Letterpress using Van Son Rubber Base ink and Reich Paper 118lb (320gsm) Savoy Natural White stock.
Photograph: Jacqui Small
I Love Stationery: Plurabelle stationery
By Plurabelle Calligraphy, USA
Molly Suber Thorpe created the lettering for these stamps using a pointed pen with black ink on white paper. This was then scanned and cleaned up in Photoshop.
Photograph: Jacqui Small
I Love Stationery: Ruby Wren Designs
By Ruby Wren Designs, UK
These greeting cards were inspired by birds, animals, wildlife, and nature in general. Each was hand cut using a scalpel and coloured paper was then glued to the inside.
Photograph: Jacqui Small
I Love Stationery: Snap & Tumble
By Snap + Tumble, Canada
The journals feature letterpress-printed type and were made with a simple binding technique, using a cover-weight cardstock, bond paper, waxed thread, an awl and bookbinding tape.
Photograph: Jacqui Small
I Love Stationery: Sunlight on Closed Lids
By Sunlight On Closed Lids, UK
The illustrations on these greeting cards were created by hand, employing a variety of methods. "I like to use superfine black gel pens for the initial illustrations and enjoy using collage, coloured pencils, gouache paints, and screen printing to create patterns and textures," says founder and designer, Kate Holliday.
Photograph: Jacqui Small
I Love Stationery: The Hungary Workshop
By The Hungary Workshop, Australia
The cards are printed on a Heidelberg Windmill platen press using hand-mixed Van Son Rubber Base inks and Stephen Smart White 330gsm Australian-made, 50 percent recycled stock.
Photograph: Jacqui Small
 

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