The Distillery

I am beyond impressed with the exceptional craftsmanship, professionalism, and attention to detail. The team went above and beyond to ensure my business cards were nothing short of perfection, creating a design that perfectly captured the essence of my brand. The final product is a stunning testament to their skill and expertise, and I couldn't be happier with the results. Special thanks to Sharon for turning my vision into a beautiful reality!

Professional and patient. Christabel was knowledgable, attentive and went above and beyond to make sure our product was top quality. Even shipping custom paper in from another city – legend. My company Supersolid will definitely be using The Distillery again.

I cannot recommend The Distillery highly enough. I have used them for two complicated personal gifts now, and each time they went above and beyond expectation! Everyone is knowledgable and professional and really helped me craft my projects.

this is a place you go if you are detail oriented and are able to trust the various working parts of a team that are dedicated and enthusiastic; not only to help you realise your project, but educate you in their process. of which techniques are perhaps unknown, but explained with patience and grace. Sharon and Finn have both shown kindness and tolerance in working with my vision and helping a first business card become tangible. i will be a returning client. :)

Having our wedding invitations done by The Distillery was an easy experience. We dealt with Elle the entire time and she was lovely and so helpful. We needed extra invites last minute and her and the team were able to quickly accomodate us with a fast turnaround. I would definitely recommend friends and family to The Distillery. Our invites are beautiful and of the highest quality.

The Distillery did a fantastic job on our wedding invites from start to finish. Our creative consultants, Hayley, was lovely and looked after our every request from the very beginning. We couldn't be happier with the final product - our wedding stationary is elegant, beautiful and very personal to us. The Distillery are top of their game and we highly recommend them.

Nathan, Hayley and the team at the Distillery have been providing me with awesome branding and business collateral for over 8 years now! I recently got married and they created our wedding invitations. At all times the team at the Distillery deliver with professionalism and promptness with an exceptionally high quality of work. They have a great eye for detail and creativity. These guys are great at bespoke letter press and luxury stationary. I trust them wholly in all aspects of design, from creation through to execution!

Loved working with The Distillery! My business cards turned out beautifully and I've had so many comments about how unique and high quality they are. And it was great going in for a press watch and being able to provide real time feedback about the ink and impression.

They said letterpress was dead. Well, it was. Technically speaking, the trade died, and although there are a few letterpress tradesmen still hanging around telling stories, for the most part it is a thing of the past. High-speed offset litho whirred in, and printers retrained or got out of the industry entirely. But then the strange gentrified world of darlinghurst and surry hills produced this thing we call "hipsters" ... or was it the other way around? Bit of a chicken & egg scenario there ... but essentially ... everything low-fi, old tech, steam punk and retro has had an incredible resurgence amongst the inner city trendoids. I'm not telling you anything new here. And look, I know I'm not immune to the fashionable allure of retro heath robinson typeathings, so I can't really separate myself from this, critically. But I'm also a historian who spends a lot of time researching the printing industry. So you can imagine how weird it was to find myself inside an honest-to-goodness - functional letterpress business. Boom! It's a gorgeous place - attractively laid out, but presented in a way that you can see the presses at work. The men and women that run these machines are not tradespersons, they're just artistically minded people who were lucky enough to get jobs running letterpress and embossing machines. They do a good job, too. The Distillery still use old Heidelberg Cylinder presses, and they have an old Ludlow machine. (That's a typesetting machine used for large-type ... like for posters or headers.) Unlike letterpress techniques in the past - at the Distillery, the raised plates are often made of plastic, not metal, and the system for producing the plates is more-or-less computerised. I don't fully understand that side of things. But the actual printing method is proper letterpress, using thick cotton stock, and indenting the paper in that satisfying way that old-school letterpress printers would never dare do. You can get expensive luxury printing done here: wedding invitations, business cards, stationery, poster prints, and so forth.... It's not cheap, but what the hell, it's letterpress. And it's beautiful.