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The design was minimal and clean on this invitation project, but we pulled out all the stops on the production.

We duplexed a highly textured pale gray paper to give these cards some serious heft. We printed the type in a matte navy and turquoise foil stamp and alternated the colored, bevel edging so that it was the opposite color of the type on each card. Navy, turquoise. Turquoise, navy. Navy, turquoise ……

This particular save the date combined a wonderful botanical print of an orange blossom with metallic gold edging, lush cotton paper, letterpress printing and digital printing. The end result is a beautifully textured and organic piece fitting for a Southern Cali wedding.

We love how fresh these classic seashells look paired with a bright white and vivid turquoise. A perfect invitation for the Pacific coast!

Check out this festive save the date for a December wedding … and note the hand painted, glittered, beveled edge.

We worked with the truly spectacular, Toby Ellen Sarna on this project, event planner extraordinaire:
http://www.tobyellensarna.com/Home.html

This wedding invitation combined all the hallmarks of a classic look; Crane’s Ecru paper, black ink, letterpress printing and a freshly designed monogram for the bride and groom.

A birth announcement, a baptism invitation, and fabulous matching thank you notes, if we do say so ourselves.

Check out A Day in May’s work on Style Me Pretty today

http://www.stylemepretty.com/2011/06/23/napa-valley-wedding-by-laurie-arons-special-events/

We consider ourselves truly lucky to have worked with the team at Laurie Arons Special Events many times over the years. Laurie has a gift for pulling together spectacular design details which culminate in an original, beautiful and seamlessly executed event. The real wedding documented on Style Me Pretty today is a perfect example. See below for an eye into our work for this delightful bride and groom and check out Style Me Pretty for the full picture.

EVENT PLANNER – http://lauriearons.com/

CALLIGRAPHER – http://www.barbaracallow.com/

PHOTOGRAPHER – http://www.megsmith.com/

FLORAL DESIGN – http://kathleendeerydesign.com/

Eve’s newest design creation is a website for STRENING ARCHITECTS. The morph from concept to reality is an inspired view into the architect’s world.

Check out the live site:
http://www.streningarchitect.com

Check out the ad we just designed for New York based event designer, Sofia Crokos. You can find it soon in Unveiled Magazine. Her talents are truly extraordinary. We had a wonderful time leafing through the photographs of her past events as we designed. And speaking of photography, all photos in the ad were shot by the fabulous, Allan Zepeda.

http://www.sofiacrokos.com/

This new logo is just the first step towards a brand we are helping to build.

Stay tuned …. more to come.

A DAY IN MAY was honored to have one of our wine label designs selected for the MOMA San Francisco’s recent wine exhibit; “How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now”. Pretty cool. Check out our “Donkey and Goat” label which is currently on the wall at the museum.
And in other wine news, our very charming new label design is hot off the press …. “Lucinda & Millie” organic wine. On sale now at Whole Foods everywhere (well, actually only in the States that allow wine in grocery stores). Drink up!

NYC looks outstanding in silhouette, in black & white, and of course in letterpress.

Lately at A Day in May, we’ve been loving foil stamping. The end result has a similar effect to letterpress, in that the printing is recessed (pushed into the paper) but with foil stamping we have the option to create a bright and shinny effect. Check out some recent works below!

This playful and modern invitation suite was created for a wedding at the Bowery Hotel in downtown New York City. We love working with color at A Day in May so this project was particularly fun for us. It also allowed us to use some of our new digital printing techniques which look gorgeous on luscious Crane’s letterpress paper.

This project was done in collaboration with Sofia Crokos a fabulously creative event planner in NYC that we love:

http://www.sofiacrokos.com/

585 Wine Partners in Sonoma California contacted us to design wine labels for their new brand, L’Attitude.  In addition to their excellent grape growing conditions, Sonoma, California and Burgundy, France share almost the exact same latitudinal coordinates (39 and 47 degrees respectively).  585 Wine Partners was looking to create labels that were not only classically French in appeal, but also graphically communicated their similar latitudinal parallels. Below you’ll see the end result …. chardonnay and pinot noir labels embossed on a lushly textured cream paper. Cheers!

This lush invitation in a sophisticated neutral palette was the perfect way to kick off Ranee and Nir’s wedding in NYC. For more details on A Day in May’s design process follow this link:

http://www.adayinmay.com/blog/category/general/design-process/

This year Eve and Lesley helped to make the holidays a little sweeter with these gingerbread hangtags to accent the chicest holiday gifts.