Author: Travis Friedrich
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Four Inks on Black for Alex Jackson Studio
Letterpress printing on black paper can pose challenges. Most letterpress inks are transparent, so they’re not going to show up on a black background. One exception is silver. Silver ink is mostly opaque (about 80%), so if you’re sneaky, you can print a silver ink run on the black paper to create a lighter base,…
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Letterpress Posters for Bowdoin College
Barry Mills served as president of Maine’s Bowdoin College from 2001 until this past July. Upon his departure, the college asked us to print his manifesto as a 6″ x 15″ letterpress poster. Since we use a Chandler & Price platen press, which isn’t really designed for larger pieces like this, we actually printed this…
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Business Cards for Hime Hiko
Beautifully simple business cards for Hime Hiko. We printed these with our Midnight and Fire Truck inks on 300g Fluorescent White Lettra. Design work by Montréal firm Sept L’atelier.
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Golden Botanicals Wrapped & Sealed
If you thought the letterpress save the dates we printed for Randi & Ben this spring were cool, I think you’re gonna like the follow-up. This was truly a collaborative project. Randi designed the two-sided invitation and sleeve, and sent the specs off to us. We printed the front of the invitation on 300g Pearl…
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A Wedding Between Two Ferns
Last month we featured Luke and Robyn’s Mount Hood wedding invitation set. Sticking with the Oregon theme, this time we head south for Julia and Detlev’s wedding on the Umpqua River. Both the wedding ceremony invitation and the rehearsal dinner invite feature fern imagery – somewhat abstractly on the main invite and more realistically and delicately for…
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Blind, Edged, & Converted
We’ve been printing fancy letterpress business cards for Norfolk creatives Grow for a while now (check it out). Recently they asked us to print simple blind-pressed, edge painted notes along with custom printed and converted envelopes. To get the pattern on the inside of the envelope (called a “tint”) we first offset printed flat sheets with…
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Business Set For Force Majeure Vineyard
Washington’s Force Majeure Vineyard makes lovely Bordeaux and Rhone-inspired wines. We’ve been lucky enough to sample from their limited production and we think their wines pair beautifully with our custom letterpress stationery. We printed business cards, folded notes, and envelopes for Carrie and Todd using espresso and silver-tinted opaque white ink on Ecru Lettra paper.
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Foiled & Monogrammed
We love type-only designs. This one’s got a simple monogram in Italic Garamond along with text in Neutra Light and Sloop Script. We used a custom paper — two sheets of Dark Gray 350g Colorplan duplexed to create a nice, thick 700g stock. The card was printed with silver foil, finished with silver edge paint, and…
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Letterpress Business Card Roundup
Time for another business card roundup! After you’re done here, you might want to check out previous roundups from 2013, 2014, and just this past January. Canadian designer and photographer Amanda Benincasa (benincasadesign.com) designed these cards, complete with a letterpress QR code. We printed them with custom green and gray inks on thick 600g Fluorescent White…