Parklife Press

Custom Letterpress and Beyond

Author: Travis Friedrich

  • REBLOG: Studio Photos by Gritchelle Fallesgon

    Right around the same time Parklife Press was making the move from North Carolina out to Portland, Gritchelle was packing up her San Francisco apartment and heading up to Portland as well. We ended up just a few blocks from each other. As part of a portrait project capturing creative Portlanders in their element, Gritchelle…

  • Minty Cards for Northbourne Architecture + Design

    Minty Cards for Northbourne Architecture + Design

    These striking cards for Melbourne architecture firm Northbourne were printed on 600g Fluorescent White Lettra with a blind impression on the front and black and custom mint ink on the back. Finished with mint edges match. Printed by Parklife and designed by JT at A Door Ajar.

  • Business Cards for Dixon Kirby

    Another G Brand design, this one for design and builders Dixon Kirby. These are duplexed cards, printed with two inks on Pearl White Lettra for the front, and one ink on Adriatic Colorplan for the back.

  • A Golden Hex

    Bax’s cards presented a special challenge. Normally, to create an odd shape (basically anything non-rectangular), we’d make a die and die-cut the cards. But Bax wanted edge paint — and a die-cut edge isn’t crisp enough to paint cleanly. So we (very carefully) knife-cut these 600g fluorescent white hexagons with our 19th century guillotine cutter,…

  • Ostrich Invitations

    At the time of this post, a Google image search for “ostrich wedding invitation” turns up not a single invite with a full ostrich. Ostrich feathers, sure. But no full birds. Chia and Kendall sought to change that, and we were happy to help. Using our Fountain invitation as a template, we added a confidently-posed…

  • Red Flooded Business Cards

    Solid floods of color can be tricky with letterpress. But if you play your no-pun-intended cards right, you can get great results. Lighter/brighter colors tend to print more evenly. And die-cutting the cards rather than knife trimming can help keep the raised unprinted paper from getting squished or scuffed. For these square cards we printed…

  • Within Interior Design

    Check out these beautifully understated two-color, two-sided cards for Norfolk’s Within Interior Design. For each of the eight women at the firm, we printed turquoise and warm gray inks on thick 600g Fluorescent White Lettra and added turquoise edge paint to match.

  • Antique Black Champagnium

    Back in April of 2015 we printed some excellent business cards for designer Amanda Benincasa. And then a few months later, she asked us to print her wedding invitations. The background floral image is actually just Pantone black ink — but when printed on the black Rising Museum Board, it creates a sort of bronze…

  • Business Cards for Virile Heart & Heritage

    For the New Jersey grooming gurus at Virile, we printed these thick two-sided cards on 600g pearl white Lettra with tinted white and black inks. We finished them with a rich brick edge paint. To help the impression pop, we like to use white ink tinted with a little bit of silver rather than print…

  • New Parklife Invitation Style: Paige

    Occasionally we design a custom invitation for a client, and we love it so much we decide to keep it for ourselves. This one, originally designed for Paige and Clayton’s January wedding, will soon be added to Parklife’s wedding collection. The new Paige invitation set is printed with black ink and a blind impression on…