01/21/16 Kicking-off the second year of SIFT‘s quarterly conversation with interdisciplinary artists, designers, and crafts people exploring the intersections where sequence, image, form, and text converge…Close Quarters is thrilled to present Nancy Sharon Collins, stationer extraordinaire. Close Quarters is often held at an artist’s studio allowing close-up, hands-on examination of work with lively and engaging dialog. On Thursday, January 21, […]

Turn to page 58 for a look at our hand engraved monogram on our very proprietary onion skin letter papers. Not only is the monogram first drawn by hand (with a real pencil a real paper), it is then engraved—by hand—onto a half-inch thick steel die. After this, a 2-hour “makeready” is required on the

Watch Mrs. Collins’s 2014 TypeCon presentation on the language of calling cards, Codes and Cards: Symbology from Victorian-era to Mid-20th Century Calling Cards. The first 10 minutes are a bit slow going with loads of calling card visuals, context, history, etiquette, behavior and use. Then the it revs-up to a spectacular (and funny) ending. Though

Monograms: Your Very Own Custom, Hand Drawn Personal Logo Saturday, Nov. 14 from 10am-noon at Gallier Historic House in New Orleans French Quarter: Experience the classic process of creating a custom monogram through an immersion in vintage lettering styles, monograms, crests, seals, calling cards, and more. In this hands-on class examples of vintage monograms, lettering