From a consortium of handmade designers, to a single designer — handmade Monday has a dramatic range of scale.
Albertine Press is a Somerville-based, letterpress print shop run by Shelley Barande, “a sometime-architect who just loved paper more.”
Albertine Press’s first specialty is as a custom design and print studio. Shelley designs and creates custom save the date, wedding, baby, and other special and social events stationery. But since the shop’s inception in 2007, her work has spread to a collection of greeting cards, note cards, and coasters.
I particularly like the graphic quality of her work. And I have a very Patrick Bateman-esque love of the way Shelley’s pieces reflect the texture of the press against the paper.
