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.