No. III · Wedding suite · Lake Como
Rougelips
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A single lipstick kiss, screen printed in three passes of vermilion, over a torn terracotta brushstroke. Bold, romantic, faintly scandalous.
The kiss is real. The bride pressed her lips to a sheet of tracing paper; we scanned it at 1200 dpi and kept every crack in the lipstick.
Three screen passes build the vermilion up until it sits proud of the sheet — you can feel the mouth with a fingertip.
The terracotta sweep on the left is pulled by hand with a wide brush, so every one of the ninety cards has a different edge.
“Ninety kisses, none of them identical. That was the design.”
Specification
- Client
- Amelia & Julien
- Year
- 2025
- Paper
- Handmade cotton, four deckled edges
- Technique
- Screen print, 3 passes
- Pieces
- 90 invitations · RSVP · map
Materials
- — Vermilion pigment ink
- — Cotton rag paper
- — Hand-brushed terracotta
In the detail
Close-up of a red lipstick kiss printed on textured cotton paper.
Photographed in the workshop