Our 2009 Holiday card mirrors the year itself: creepy, uncomfortable, and pretty lame, but in the end, somehow bright and cheery too. We’ve also posted some outtakes on our site for those of you that watched movies like “The Exorcist” or “Drag Me to Hell” without flinching.

As designers, we love getting down and dirty. While the computer is a great tool for designing, our hearts lie in being able to touch our work.

So last Saturday, the designers of Gravity took the opportunity to attend the Silkscreen 101 workshop at the Vera Project in Seattle Center. » Read the rest of this entry «

If you’ve been one of the fortunate group to have received our holiday cards in the past, you’ll be uneasy to hear we’ve got another one in the works that should be delivered to your door (fingers crossed) well before Christmas.

This year we pulled out all the stops and crafted one of the finest, most businesslike cards we’ve ever done. The illustration above is just a teaser…the actual card is much more, um, wigged out.

And if you’re not on our mailing list, just post a comment here with your email or address and we’ll be sure you get yours.

Whether you’re jacked up on java or jack frosted on iced tea, your travel mug should be decked for the holidays with Caffeine Couture.

So those merry elves at Gravity have created 4 original illustrations for you to show your good taste wherever you go. Visit our Caffeine Couture page to choose your favorite festive design, then download and print templates sized to slip into one of two create-your-own tumblers from Starbucks or Aladdin. Links to purchase tumblers are on the site as well as other delightful diversions. Cheers!

Letterpress is such a passionate and heartfelt craft shared by many in the design and printing world. It has a long legacy and history starting from its inventor Johannes Gutenberg in the mid 1500s to our current day heroes such as Jim Sherraden at Hatch Show Print in Nashville. In recent years, letterpress has become more mainstream due to its popularity in the stationery industry—now the general public has been exposed to this great artistry. It is one of those things that you never get tired of looking at and touching. The impression, its depth, the ink saturation, and tactile quality all stir a warm fuzzy feeling for those who love this timeless craft. I do not know of any designer wouldn’t want to do a letterpress piece.

Recently we were looking for a letterpress vendor in town (Seattle) for our design firm’s promo book and I came across some very talented craftspeople. Our job had a very short run of 250 so I was looking for a small letterpress printer that didn’t have the overhead of the full service shops. We were looking for a one- or two-person shop that had the passion for the deep impression. » Read the rest of this entry «