{ABOUT LETTERS LUBELL}

When Brooklyn-based stationery designer Kacy Mayer got hitched, her name wasn’t the only thing that changed: Throughout her own invitation design process, she fell in love with the elegant aesthetic and vintage properties of letterpress and saw potential in bringing her own youthful style to the medium.  So, as Kacy Lubell was born, so was her new luxe stationery line, Letters Lubell.

Back in 2007, Kacy was prompted—via an obsession with contemporary design, innate craftiness and mounting requests from friends—to launch her digital stationery collection, Bubble Letters NYC. Then, in 2008, her preoccupation with letterpress began: The arduous craft of pressing ink into paper via an antique printing press held a romantic mystique.

Today, she nods to the old-fashioned nature of the process, packaging girlie stationery with simple, organic-style brown paper bag envelopes, all tied with bows of striped baker’s twine.  But she also re-appropriates the often, prim medium for more style conscious girls like herself with unabashed florescent colors from teal to hot pink and patterns inspired by Mexican Aztec textiles, organic fronds, summers spent in the Hamptons, old-fashioned monograms and even ornate baked goods.

Whether custom-designed or from the ready-to-write collection, Letters Lubell’s original graphics—on items from recipe cards to notebooks—are printed on strictly eco-friendly 100% cotton paper stock with rubber and soy-based inks.

But, most importantly, the creator’s small operation offers a hands-on, bespoke, collaborative approach to stationery and invitation design.

In Kacy’s mind, handwritten correspondence on pretty stationery should bring the same sense of polished satisfaction as a fresh manicure, newly cleaned out closet or (for the organization obsessed) even a new label maker.  In choosing Letters Lubell, clients are signing on for unique personal attention from the designer herself.