Open Sea Design Co.

Open Sea Design Co. Open Sea is a creative boutique in Brooklyn, NY. Open Sea is a creative design studio based in Brooklyn, that helps build brands from the ground up.

We specialize in branding, packaging, print collateral, and website design. In 2017, we launched Open Sea's first and very own line of stationery. We decided to create a line that showcased some of the things we love the most: flowers, the ocean, type, and beautiful old (and slightly esoteric) things. Things that inspire us daily, and fill our spaces and lives with beauty. Our intention with Open Sea Fine Paper Goods is to do just that: add a little more beauty to your life.

Back in stock! Our Lover’s Locket and Eternally Yours cards are back in stock and ready to ship 🖤
02/18/2025

Back in stock! Our Lover’s Locket and Eternally Yours cards are back in stock and ready to ship 🖤

❤️We are thrilled to announce a luxurious, triple-threat giveaway package for the season of love. Have a romantic night ...
02/02/2025

❤️We are thrilled to announce a luxurious, triple-threat giveaway package for the season of love. Have a romantic night in with your partner to celebrate rituals of caretaking and passion. Each package includes one small, dripped pillar candle from , one bar of Bouquet cold-process soap from .co, one To One I Love greeting card, one Rose Oval greeting card, and one Triumph of Venus art print from .

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💌Details
Candle—Limited edition Mithras Red candle handmade with 100% beeswax and vegetable based dye. Orders for this color have CLOSED and if you missed out this is your last chance to snag one until next solar cycle.
Soap— Handmade, cold-process soap blossoming with rose, geranium, lavender, and peony. Made with natural oils and potentiated spring water in the Catskill Mountains, it is the perfect way to activate Venusian energy within your body.
Paper—Two A2 oval cardstock cards with matching red and cream envelopes respectively and one 11x14 in. art print on cardstock.

Terms
Giveaway closes February 4th, 2025 at 11:59PM. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open to legal residents of the 48 contiguous United States (excluding AK and HI) including D.C. (“U.S.”), must be eighteen (18) years or older to win. Giveaway begins on 02/02/15 and ends on 02/04/25 at 11:59 pm EST. One winner will be chosen at random on 02/05/25 and notified via DM. By entering, you agree to the Giveaway Rules. Not affiliated with Instagram.: https://openseadesignco.com/pages/giveaway-terms⁠

🇲🇽Today is Mexican Independence Day. 🇲🇽My country may be imperfect, but it is rich in culture, spirit, and people. Even ...
09/15/2024

🇲🇽Today is Mexican Independence Day. 🇲🇽My country may be imperfect, but it is rich in culture, spirit, and people. Even though I’ve lived in the US for many years now, my bond to Mexico continues to run deep. Not just because I go often to visit my family, but if you look close, you’ll find bits and pieces of Mexican folklore, history and magic in the work of Open Sea. It’s also why I named my company Open Sea: after the healing, turquoise blue waters of my hometown of Cancun.

And living in NYC, a city that runs on the hard work of immigrants, I never feel too far from home. And I’m grateful to live in a city that cares for and values its immigrant population.

Que viva Mexico!

We’re ready for you at 🖤
08/03/2024

We’re ready for you at 🖤

🖤🔮NEW COLLECTION 🔮🖤This new collection is a bit of everything we love at Open Sea: spiritualism, botanical prints, 14th ...
07/17/2024

🖤🔮NEW COLLECTION 🔮🖤

This new collection is a bit of everything we love at Open Sea: spiritualism, botanical prints, 14th century alphabets, books, and skulls. We’ve always got to sneak in a skull.

Our brand new black oval folded cards, feature two iconic fortune telling tools: the crystal ball, and the original planchette. We’ve also redesigned and updated our original A7 botanical ovals, and created a sweet ode to the magic of books. Two brand new occasion cards have loving sentiments set 14th century lettering, framed with delicate florals.

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Our Calaveras prints are a tribute to Mexican Day of the Dead sugar skulls 🖤💀🖤 Each calavera is encircled by an ornate s...
10/19/2022

Our Calaveras prints are a tribute to Mexican Day of the Dead sugar skulls 🖤💀🖤 Each calavera is encircled by an ornate silver foil frame and decorated with colorful blooms.

Calaveras are small molded skulls made out of cane sugar, typically used during the Mexican Day of the Day as altar decorations meant to represent our passed loved ones.
 
Their history dates back to pre-hispanic times. The people of Mesoamerica saw death as another cycle in a person’s journey of life, not as final and eternal judgment. It was common practice to use the skulls of passed loved ones in death rituals, as well as in the Tzompantli, which were large racks used to display the skulls of war captives and sacrificial victims. 
 
But these practices were forbidden after 1519 when the Spanish arrived on the shores of Mexico and began brutally imposing Catholicism. As is so often the case, the indigenous people found ways to incorporate their old traditions to their new ones. Usually in more palatable ways. 
 
It is thought that the calaveras themselves are based on the Spanish tradition of alfeñiques, which are molded candy made with sugar. 

The four elements oval greeting cards 🖤 “There are four elements, and they are the primary foundation of all corporeal t...
10/06/2022

The four elements oval greeting cards 🖤

“There are four elements, and they are the primary foundation of all corporeal things: fire, earth, water, and air. All inferior bodies are composed from these elements, not by heaping them together, but by transmutation and union. Then, when corrupted, they are dissolved into elements.

However, none of the sensible elements are pure, but are more or less mixed, and are transmuted into each other, just as earth is dissolved into mud in water and then hardens and thickens with earth. But with heat, it evaporates and crosses over into air, then when inflamed into fire, and when extinguished reverts back into air.”

Excerpt From
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa & Eric Purdue

Our Halloween poster, and collection, are now live on our website 🖤🔮🖤This special correspondence poster continues our co...
10/03/2022

Our Halloween poster, and collection, are now live on our website 🖤🔮🖤

This special correspondence poster continues our collaboration with Melissa Madara, author of The Witch’s Feast. We invite you to lose yourself in the depth of knowledge and symbols celebrating our favorite time of the year. Use this as a guide in the season ahead, to anchor your soul in a time of spiritual turbulence. 

Earlier this year we had the pleasure to collaborate with .archive and on graphics for the FW22 collection 🖤 The collec...
09/30/2022

Earlier this year we had the pleasure to collaborate with .archive and on graphics for the FW22 collection 🖤 The collection also includes artwork by and 🖤 And it’s finally online on the .archive website!

It’s quite the departure for us, but it felt right. .archive is a fellow woman (and Hispanic!) owned business, and their deconstructed Victorian aesthetic tugged at our heart strings right away. 🖤 We will eventually offer a few select pieces on our website, but the entire collection is available on the .archive website 🖤. I hope you check it out!

Earlier this year we had the opportunity to collaborate with ANNOTHER [ARCHIVE]] and on their FW22 collection. 🖤 And th...
09/30/2022

Earlier this year we had the opportunity to collaborate with ANNOTHER [ARCHIVE]] and on their FW22 collection. 🖤 And the collection is finally live on the ANNOTHER [ARCHIVE]] website! The collection also features artwork from the ridiculously talented and 🖤

Each piece is carefully and slowly made in Spain.

New cards coming October 1st 🖤
09/28/2022

New cards coming October 1st 🖤

Our skull Vanitas card set is now available online. 🖤 Photo by
09/19/2022

Our skull Vanitas card set is now available online. 🖤 Photo by

Our new Treasure prints, inspired by 17th century Dutch still life paintings 🖤 Available now on our online shop 🖤 ...
09/16/2022

Our new Treasure prints, inspired by 17th century Dutch still life paintings 🖤 Available now on our online shop 🖤

Halloween correspondence poster 🖤 We collaborated once again with the wonderful .jayne on this special correspondence po...
09/15/2022

Halloween correspondence poster 🖤 We collaborated once again with the wonderful .jayne on this special correspondence poster for our favorite time of the year 🖤 These, along with other special goods will be Available October 1st 🖤🔮🖤

Our cathedral window prints are now available on our shop 🖤 Photo, as always, by
09/14/2022

Our cathedral window prints are now available on our shop 🖤

Photo, as always, by

The newest addition to our Herbarium notebook series: Mugwort 🖤Have you ever used Mugwort? How do you use it? I like to ...
09/05/2022

The newest addition to our Herbarium notebook series: Mugwort 🖤

Have you ever used Mugwort? How do you use it? I like to spray a little bit of mugwort essence on my pillow at night to encourage lucid dreaming.
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Our Mugwort notebook has a black cover printed with pale green foil, and blank interior pages.

We can’t wait to see you all in December for the 🖤 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in NYC. So many wonderful vendors will ...
08/30/2022

We can’t wait to see you all in December for the 🖤 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in NYC.

So many wonderful vendors will be there including:

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