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The first wedding invitation Jessica Spring designed was her own in 1990 - and she's been designing smart invitations ever since. Both a letterpress printer and a designer, Jessica fully appreciates the meticulous craftsmanship that letterpress demands. She loves working with not only vintage metal type and handmade papers, but also with her heavy-duty printing equipment (such as her Vandercook Universal One, a 1-ton press which she recently moved thousands of miles across the country to her new West Coast home).
The proprietor of Springtide Press in Tacoma, Washington, Jessica also designs and prints unique artist books featuring handmade paper and letterpress printing. Her books range from Dogs I Know to Collectors' Tales ( a collection about our obsession to collect, identify, and display objects of desire) to Spiceography, a comparison of typography and spices. She occasionally collaborates on printing projects with her seven-year-old son Jack, who she fondly calls her "printer's devil," a slang term for printer's apprenticeship.
Jessica has an MFA from Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper, and her work is collected by the Newberry Library, Northwestern University, and The Art Institute of Chicago. She's also been exhibited throughout the U.S. and in Canada and London.
Bella Figura would be overjoyed to customize any of the following designs for personal stationery, baby announcements, or Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah invitations.
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