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Tag: 600g

  • Business Cards for FREDDYOPHOTO

    Freddy Oropeza creates incredibly rich and vibrant photographs. But for his business cards, he opted for a simple, clean, monochrome aesthetic. We printed these on 600g Gmund Cotton paper with a light tonal ink on the front and a darker gray on the back.

  • New York Garden Wedding Whimsy

    It can be tricky to create a wedding invitation suite that’s colorful, playful, and exciting, while still conveying the sophistication of the event itself. While working with Terisa and Tom, the goal of maintaining that balance was always at the front of our minds.  Ok, sure, the save the dates leaned a bit toward the whimsical…

  • Ontario Blossoming

    Ontario Blossoming

    Gabriel & Aida saw two of our most popular wedding invitations, our Ontario and Blossom styles, and asked, “why choose?”. Why not Ontariossom? Or Blosstario?  With our help, they combined the modern typefaces and sleek black / white / silver color scheme of our Ontario style with the classic floral motif from our Blossom design.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • A Mount Hood Wedding

    Perhaps you saw our 2013 blog post detailing the underused letterpress technique of halftone screens. In short, we can use tiny dots and on-paper ink mixing to create the illusion of gradations and multiple ink colors. For Robyn and Luke’s Timberline Lodge wedding, we used just two inks (a very light gray and a dark blueish-gray) to…

  • Foil, Door Tags, and Alligators

    It’s great when we get to work with a wedding client from the very beginning – starting with the save the dates, moving on to the invitations, and then following through to the wedding day pieces. We did this for Elisa and Alexander, shifting the design vision slightly throughout the process while still maintaining a cohesive…

  • Anniversary Foil

    For us, 2015 has been the year of foil. Check out these awesome foil stamped employee recognition cards we printed for Canada’s Ian Martin Group. All six sets were printed with gold foil on 600g Ecru Lettra paper, then finished with gold edge paint.

  • Mid-Century Modern Floral

    This lively set was based on a 60’s style botanical motif printed in two shades of green. Designed by the bride (between her cake-baking sessions), the set was printed with two custom inks on 600g fluorescent white stock. First, a square save the date card — emphasis on the date. The playful greens grow inwards from all…