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Article: The stationer: "menus have become very elaborate. I do a menu-place-card combination that is really a tour de force.".(ASK THE EXPERTS)(Interview)
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- June 22, 2007
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For 25 years you did lettering for advertising, record albums, and the like. Five years ago, you began doing custom work, including wedding stationery. Why? My friends were getting married and they didn't like any of the stationery they saw. Gown design, catering, and event design were getting better, but stationery was just dull. So I set out to create the most beautiful stationery I could imagine.
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Describe your work. My primary lettering--Script Style--fuses eighteenth-century European copperplate with American Spencerian styles, modified to keep it historically referential yet modern. I have three styles, all of which are based ...