Author: Travis Friedrich
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Letterpress Logo Notes for Sixgill
Sixgill’s logo uses a gradation of green — from light on the left to dark on the right. Normally that’s not the sort of thing letterpress does well. But using a fine halftone screen, we printed two shades of green on top of one another to achieve the gradation effect.
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Foil + Foliage in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
For Taryn and Adam’s wedding in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, we designed a custom foil + letterpress motif based on the garden’s Palm House. Take a look at the inspiration: We carried parts of the artwork through to reply cards, menus, programs, and even the envelopes. PAPER 600g Fluorescent WhiteINK Light CeladonFOIL Silver Shine
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Happy Halloween! (+ $100 Coupon)
Boo! This year’s Parklife Halloween card features black ink plus two shades of foil on a duplexed sheet: French Paper Speckletone Kraft for the front and Kraft-Tone Ledger Green for the back. Oh yeah, there’s a discount too. Just mention this post between now and the end of November to get $100 off an order…
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Christmas Cards for Adena Studios
Check out these stark and sinister Christmas cards for North Carolina creative agency and long-time Parklife collaborators, Adena Studios. We printed these with Black and Fuchsia ink on our 300g Fluorescent White cotton paper.
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Fluorescent Festivities | Neon Nuptials
These might be my favorite client-designed invitations this year. The bride, Nisha, designed three different invites for her various California wedding festivities. All three have a common feel — employing the same border art, black ink, and copperplate type. But Nisha used different title art for each and we printed them with three different fluorescent letterpress…
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Chipboard Cards for Fractal Farms
The cannabis cultivators at Fractal Farms have a great logo. And now they can show it off on slick new letterpress business cards. We printed these with our midnight ink on 400g chipboard.
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Purple Petal
For fellow Portlanders Nathan and Liene, we created a customized variation on our Petal invitation. We kept the round corners and multi-tone orchid art, but changed the fonts, orientation, and inks.
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50th Anniversary Surprise
After the overwhelming success of Elisa’s invitation set last spring, she’s back with party invitations for her parents’ anniversary.
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Washington Wine Reboot
Washington wine-makers and friends of Parklife, Force Majeure, have some new cards. This time we went thicker, bolder, and more tightly-registered (check out the precisely-placed scarlet ink inside the gray knockout). These are printed on our Ecru 600g Lettra paper.
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Letterpress Invites in the Santa Cruz Mountains
This is one of our favorite client-designed wedding sets of the summer. Elaine and Joseph’s invites mimic the lush forest that surrounded their venue in the Santa Cruz Mountains, complete with ferns, pinecones, and slugs. We mixed a custom dilution of our Light Celadon ink to let the deep impression of the artwork really stand…