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a. favorite design
Categories
Books & Stationery
Hours:
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 5pmDriving Directions:
We are on the West side of Kedzie Ave, just South of Sunnyside and North of Montrose.
About Us
Friendly, Neighborhood Stationery Shop filled with handcrafted letterpress greeting cards, specialty pens, fun office supplies, stickers, journals, gift wrap and useful goods. a. favorite design's mission is to encourage long distance warm fuzzies through snail mail and is the core value for their monthly Letter Writing Meet Ups. Visit afavoritedesign.com for more info.
Events
For the Love of Local
- valentine event, shopping, chicago makers, jewelry, chocolate, flowers, tea, valentines
- Saturday Feb 8, 2025
Rep/Contact Info
View Personal BioAmber FavoriteAmber Favorite attended a vocational high school and learned the basics of graphic design and running a printing press. In college, she was introduced to letterpress printing. The antique machinery, individual letters, smell of ink were magic to Amber! After college, she worked for an agency, then for a large corporation. She was restless and dreamed of working for herself, so she started freelancing. She realized freelance was feast or famine finances, to help she found a job at a local stationery shop. While there, she learned of letterpress classes and enrolled, volunteered, spent as much time as possible learning letterpress and fine-tuning her craft. Amber always had a passion for design and typography; letterpress printing became a magical, creative world filled with both. She quickly learned people liked her style, which inspired her to create a line of greeting cards and stationery, the beginning of a. favorite design.Tell a Friend