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Client Feature: STIR Creative Group
Over the past few years we’ve worked with Greensboro, NC creative agency STIR on a number of print projects. Today we’re featuring some of our favorites — designed by STIR and printed by Parklife. Holiday Cards for Tom Stringer Design Partners5.5″ x 8.5″ card on 600g Pearl White Lettra with Rounded CornersMatching A9 Lettra Envelope…
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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 and Halftone Screens
What prints best with letterpress? The short answer is: Text, line art, and fairly small areas of solid color. A few typical examples… Does that mean you can’t use tints of your chosen ink to create shading within one design? Or do color mixing of any kind? Not at all. It just requires a different…