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  • Gold on Black for Nequette Architecture + Design

    Perhaps you’ve seen some of Chad Martin’s design work on this very site in the past (here, here, here, or maybe here). For this set, we printed cards for Nequette Architecture & Design along with some similar cards for Chad’s company, The G Brand. These mini 1.75″ x 3″ cards feature gold ink on 30pt…

  • A Gold-foiled Whirl

    For Courtney and Ben’s set, we started with our popular Whirl invitation, but added gold foil and edge paint for some extra pizzazz. The original Whirl uses gold ink, which has just the slightest hint of metallic shimmer. But gold foil is something else entirely — it’s extremely shiny with a reflective mirrored look. And…

  • Holographic Foil For Bakedown Cakery

    We first met Jen back in 2014 when we printed the wonderful invitation set she designed. Since then she’s been hard at work building her cake-baking empire at Bakedown Cakery. Check out her work below, and if you don’t get too distracted by the cakes, scroll down to see the awesome duplexed letterpress + holographic…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…