The Eighth Friendsgiving
Vendor guide — 27.11, Apartment 5B
If you are reading only one part
- Whoever prints it
- One ink. Risograph. Not offset, not digital "to save a plate",
and definitely not four-colour. The variation where the red presses harder is the process being
honest — please do not correct it.
- Anyone making signage
- The welcome sign goes on the apartment door, in a hallway with
one working bulb. It has to read from the top of the stairs. That is the whole spec.
- Photographer / anyone posting
- Everything drawn on these pieces is a real object that will
be in the room — the turkey on the oval platter, the bottle with a ribbon on it, the serving
spoons, the good glasses, the squash. There are no photographs anywhere in this suite, of
food, of people, of anything. Please keep it that way.
- Anyone helping on the night
- It is a potluck and the assignment is the point. Each guest's
card carries their own line — what they are bringing — and the menu names the person, not the
dish's provenance. Do not tidy that into a restaurant menu.
The event
- Date
- 27.11 — Friday, the twenty-seventh of November 2026
- From
- 4:30, and it is 4:30 out of pure superstition
- Where
- Apartment 5B
214 Vandervoort Avenue, Brooklyn
- The room
- A fifth-floor railroad apartment in East Williamsburg with a kitchen you cannot
fit two people into, and a front room that gets an hour of low orange light at four o'clock in
November. Two tables.
- Guests
- 22
- Dress
- Come as you are
- Replies by
- 13 November
The visual identity at a glance
Typefaces: Chewy for the loud line, Caveat for everything you read, and
Sriracha for names.
One ink, on paper the colour of the butcher paper the tables get covered with. Where the red presses
harder it goes deeper — that is risograph doing what risograph does. There is no second colour and
nothing metallic, and there is no calligraphy of any kind anywhere in this suite.
Match to the printed piece, not to these squares. These are screen values, and risograph in
particular never matches a screen — the ink sits on top of the paper and shifts with how hard the drum
pressed. If you are matching anything, hold the real card.
Stationery arriving
| Piece | Trim | How many |
|---|
| Invitation | 5 × 7″ | one per household |
| Envelope | A7 | as invitations |
| Save the date | 5 × 7″ | as invitations |
| Menu card | 4 × 9″ | 25 |
| Place card | 2 × 3.5″ folded | 25 |
| Table marker | 5 × 7″ | 2 — there are two tables |
| Welcome signage | 24 × 36″ | 1 |
| Bring-a-dish card | small card | 25 |
| Leftovers tag | small tag | 25 |
| Thank you card | 4.25 × 5.5″ | one per household |
Counts are 22 guests plus a margin.
Envelopes are hand-addressed — allow spares, because hand-addressing spoils more than printing does.
Day-of notes
- The gap
- There is a real gap left on the invitation on purpose. Junie writes a line
by hand on every single one. Do not fill it, centre the layout over it, or trim it out.
- The date
- Written 27.11, because that is how Theo writes it. It is not spelled out
formally anywhere and should not be — it is a Friday afternoon in an apartment, not a ceremony.
- The menu
- Names the person where a person brings the dish — Priya's dal, Rosa's stuffing,
Theo's cornbread. The turkey line is honest about being carved badly, and that joke is the whole
tradition; it must survive into print. Do not make it sound like a restaurant.
- The welcome sign
- On the apartment door, in a hallway with one working bulb. It has to
read from the top of the stairs — that is why it is as loud as it is.
- The objects
- Everything drawn is real and will be in the room: the turkey on the oval
platter Junie's mother gave her, the bottle somebody always turns up with a ribbon on, the serving
spoons, the good glasses, the squash. If you add anything, it has to be something actually on the
table.
- Material
- Risograph, one ink, uncoated natural stock, hand-addressed envelopes. No
embellishment of any kind — and it is not supposed to look expensive.
Please do not
- No calligraphy of any kind.
- No gold, no copper, no foil, no metallic.
- No monogram, no crest, no laurel, no wax seal, no ribbon-as-graphic.
- No watercolour, no botanical illustration, no pressed flowers.
- No plaid, no gingham, no burlap, no chalkboard lettering, no kraft-and-twine.
- No falling-leaf border, no cornucopia, no pilgrim anything, no Americana.
- No photographs — of food, of us, of anything. No second colour.
- Nothing that could be mistaken for a wedding invitation, and nothing that looks expensive.
The client's own list, and her own standard: “I want it
to look DRAWN, not designed — a felt-tip pen on the back of a menu.”
Questions about anything on this sheet
Ask the studio rather than working around a detail —
hello@evorrah.com. Artwork and files for anything listed here
can be sent to a supplier on request.