We worked with Erica to create our wedding invitations and she went above & beyond to help us! She…read morewas able to take our very high level vision and help make it a reality. I appreciated her responsiveness and ability to guide the decision making process so it wasn't too overwhelming. I would absolutely recommend Erica for her painting & calligraphy services!

Erica was simply amazing to work with. Fast turn around, amazing service, and easy communication…read more Simply flawless. Every bride should be so lucky to use her services!

Stacey is a magical paper fairy. Stationery and paper goods feel like an easy thing to overlook…read morewhen wedding planning, but you have no idea what Stacey can do. Steracle's services from Save the Date envelopes to our wedding invitation to all the day-of goods made a tremendous impact on our wedding, and we had numerous guests praising the attention to detail throughout our events. A large credit for that goes to Steracle. First off, we were trying to use Minted for our Save the Dates, and when they messed up all of our envelope addressing, Steracle was able to quickly turn around custom envelopes. That remained a constant theme throughout. The team was extremely responsive, turning around many many revisions very quickly as we proofread every single comma. Second was our wedding invites. We had this crazy idea to try and create a book for the invite, similar to special editions of famous books that evoked memories of fairy tales. It was just a vague concept, but Stacey and team took that idea and ran with it, creating the invitation of a lifetime. We actually cried when we saw it, and it will be forever placed on our bookshelves as a memento. Numerous guests sent personalized praise for these invites. A quote from one of them: "This is so refreshing in the days of e-invitations. Very very beautiful and elegant design. What a GORGEOUS wedding invitation!!!!!! The invitation reminds me a lot of the fairy tales I used to read growing up. The invitation brought back the romance of weddings. Nowadays people try to save time and (especially) money by sending e-invitations and those make me sad because there is something special about receiving an actual invitation. And this one blows all invitations out of the water. It sets the stage for a royal wedding." Needless to say, the bar had been raised for the rest of the paper goods, and somehow Stacey and Steracle met them. We had four separate events, and the team crafted unique feels for each event. They took certain themes and motifs and blended them across all events while maintaining the unique identity of each of them. Stacey kept coming up with brilliant ideas that made every element feel personalized, creative, and completely unique. Our wedding menu somehow had a 3D butterfly effect, and she took our love of fantasy books and created a completely custom fantasy-inspired map for the food stations at our reception. There were so many other brilliant design choices that we can go on and on about the quality and craft that Steracle illustrated. We want to keep all of these items as mementos, and we are probably going to be using our bar menus in our home going forward. It might be easy to overlook stationery as a crucial part of wedding planning, but trust us, if you go with Steracle, you will see the impact it can have and how it can elevate your entire wedding. Plus, you'll get to work with Stacey, and that's reason enough.

We loved working with a local stationer for all of our wedding paper goods. From start to…read morefinish--Stacey, Ruby, and Dvorah helped make the design process easy and created an invitation suite we were really happy with! Our day-of paper goods were also perfect - everything had a cohesive feel to it. Everything felt bespoke with the use of their original artwork and custom monogram of our initials! Already looking for another reason to work with them!

Unfortunately this location has been closed due to COVID. Their location in Glencoe is open…read more Always great service and quality work!

$7.00 minimum for print jobs. Great service by nice people…read more Might not be the ideal place to print off a few pages for a permit application for City Hall, but it's close and convenient. Located on 2nd floor.

Best invitations ever! Ellen is very nice and does good invitations! Overall this is the best place…read moreto get invitations!

Ellen did an outstanding job creating our wedding invitations and other paper items. She is…read morecreative, friendly and patient. Highly recommend and would use her again for other invitations!

Fantastic. Eco friendly, quality printing, great service…read more I used these guys for a large banner job three years ago and they did a wonderful job. They helped me get exactly what I need, and everything worked out fine. Today, looking for a different type of signage for another client, boom - I thought of them. I was still in the system, got my same rep and he had a quote to me in 10 minutes. This is how customer service works!

Digital hub is a great print shop. The shop is staffed with extremely knowledgeable staff with…read moregreat paper options and color registration. They were even able to messenger a proof to me at my office. Be sure you get a quote in writing that is signed by both parties. Be sure you know what you are talking about and what going rates of short runs and offset printing are. They are a good printshop if you know what you are talking about. It can turn south if you get in over your head.

I was referred to papa graphics from several people. And when I went to their shop they were…read moreeverything and more !!! The custom invitations were AMAZING!!! One was prettier then the next. I had a hard time deciding what to choose for my daughter's wedding and wedding shower cause there were so many beautiful designs. I can't wait to mail these out to the people on our wedding list!! Everything is just beautiful from the paper, the font, and the beautiful broach we chose on our invites they will for sure make an impression on all my guests!! Thank You Papagraphics for making our events beautiful with your unique and beautiful designs on our invites. Donna S.

I called and am reviewing solely on my phone conversation. The arrogance was unreal. Then after the…read morerude conversation I was told she had no appointments in the near future available. I had a friend call later and she gave her two available appointment times for the next morning or the morning after that. Couldn't believe it.

A bit of a belated post but still highly relevant. We came across Starshaped press during an art…read morewalk in Ravenswood. I did a secret project / present for my 1 year anniversary, "the paper anniversary " . I wanted to give a surprise Christmas present to my wife and had the idea for a concept. Reached out to Jen and she got back very quick, and we had a call to price out . I was able to give her a proof of concept to develop the unique paper print and she turned it into a forever treasure that is hung up in our home . A very cool unique thing but we gave our Chinese characters of our last names and she made it into a press and we got to keep it as a keepsake. Please consider her for projects like that but also cards and invitations . Wonderful experience

I love small letterpresses. I love the creativity; the history; the art; the passion of those who…read moremake this their craft. Every once in a while I do a search online to see if there's one I should follow on Instagram, because I love buying cards, and I like to support small businesses, so that works out pretty well, right? I've searched for letterpresses in Chicago more than once. More than once in the last couple months, even, when I was trying to decide where I wanted to purchase my holiday cards. Somehow I've only come up with one or two, and Starshaped Press was not one of them--though I live less than half a mile from where it's located. I lucked out and found Starshaped two days before their annual open house. Perfect timing. The studio is in this really awesome Art Deco building that of course I've seen in the neighborhood but have never had reason to enter. We got there right at noon so we could beat the crowd, and Jen was a gracious host. She had samples of her work out, consisting of pieces decorating the studio as well as prints and cards for purchase. (I ended up spending... way too much money). She also had delicious cookies for us too! She was so open to any question we had, and showed us how the press worked. She had set up many examples of the letterpress dies set in various designs, and they are so incredibly intricate. There may be hundreds in a single print of all sizes. I loved seeing those set up with an example of the pressed item next to it. Starshaped Press also has a print club, which is a subscription service where you get printed goodies from the press on a monthly basis. There are a few different options so you can choose based upon your budget. I signed up for the print club and will get my first this month (January 2022), and can't wait! It was suggested that I might want to get my own holiday cards printed at a letterpress--perhaps Starshaped Letterpress--and I find that idea quite intriguing. Review 641 - January 23, 2022 22/2022

I walked by this door too many times before noticing it's an actual stationery store and printer's…read moreshop! Just browsing is fun. They have so many different kinds of journals, cards and letter writing supplies. They even have a regular letter writing Meetup. What a great way to get unplugged in a digital world! They also offer printing services. Check their website for the full list of services.

Tons of stationery items. You'll find something you like!…read more They have their own screen print studio in the back. Super cool! The owner is a graphic designer so it makes sense. Only bummer is the aisles are kinda narrow so you have to squeeze by a lot of it's super busy but otherwise it's nothing that should keep you from visiting!