Yummy Stationery
This graphic caught my eye. Recently I’ve been overwhelmed by a letterpress stationary oppression — everyone who is anyone bought a press and is printing away. Done right, letterpress is gorgeous, elegant, understated. Done wrong, it seems fussy, pretentious, expensive.
So I was relieved and surprised to see this simple card letterpress card from Crane’s — a retailer I don’t associate with letterpress at all. In fact, I most strongly associate Crane’s with the first round of thank you cards I had to write in a miserable year of looking for my first job. M. and I were in different cities but searching for job in the same economic downturn, with the same unrealistic goals: WGBH or Harvard Business Review for me and Vanity Fair or the New Yorker for her. We interviewed with anyone who would met with us and then agonized over the thank yous: what to say and what to write it on. I ended up with the first card below, a simple flat card, but not after being puzzled (which I remain to this day) with how to handle the folded card.
Eventually we landed in the right jobs for us and were relieved to leave the thank you notes behind us. Five years later, it’s my turn to receive these notes from interviewees, some painfully self conscious and some who nail it. But, I always appreciate the time, and assume when I don’t get a thank you that the candidate really doesn’t want the job. So, I suppose our agony long ago wasn’t wasted.
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April 3rd, 2007 12:07
Hm. I could sort of see this being a baby announcement. how cute !!! thanks go go abigail