Rockport Publishers recently released Design for Special Events: 500 of the Best Logos, Invitations, and Graphics. The hardback book showcases several invitations designed at Elixir.

We hope you’ll visit, or revisit, the exhibition, which is up until April 26, at 550 Sutter Street, between Powell and Mason. While you’re out and about: The Hotel Rex, two doors up, has a peek-worthy elevator, decoupaged with vintage pages from San Francisco Social Registers. The hotel’s interior was designed by Elixir client Candra Scott & Anderson—whose logo is featured in our Communication Arts profile along with several invitations and other projects showcased at the exhibition.

Elixir again received the vote of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to create the materials for their annual bash. Artists Ball 7 presented a high-spirited platform for The New Party ’08, complete with a voter invitation pamphlet to the “political funraiser.”

Elixir designed invitations for the Academy of Sciences’ opening gala and dinners. The dinner invitation presents a cosmic perspective, starting with a chart of spirals created by prime numbers that holds a series of ultra-recyclable enclosures posing the Academy’s Big Questions.

Made in the Shade, Gump’s first-ever benefit, was a runway success. The fashion show and display of one-of-a-kind lampshades delighted the crowd, who were generous with their applause and their bidding paddles.

Elixir was delighted to design the save-the-date and invitation for Made in the Shade, Gump’s first-ever benefit for the arts. The event will support a newly endowed scholarship to the California College of the Arts. An array of artists, designers, and celebs have created one-of-a-kind lampshades that models will sport on the catwalk.

To herald the grand opening of its new building in June 2008, the Contemporary Jewish Museum planned a progression of events for supporters at various levels, for which Elixir developed a system of nesting invitations that mailed in a single envelope. The new building marries an early 20th-century San Francisco landmark to a contemporary steel-clad jewel. Architectural features inform the invitation package– from the blueprint used for the save-the-date to photographic perspectives on the actual invitations. The pairing of classic layout with modern typography echoes architect Daniel Libeskind’s stylistic synergy.