Tag: black
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Business Cards for Claire Vyverberg
For Australian freelance makeup artist, Claire Vyverberg, we printed these slick but pillowy cards on 500g Somerset paper. From Claire’s Instagram post about her rebranding… Launch Day!✌🏼️ With a timely delivery of my seriously beautiful #letterpress business cards & the completion of my official website- the new look Claire Vyverberg Makeup is now finito! Massive…
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Artisan Business Cards for Chad Gorges
Check out these business cards and display cards for Chad Gorges, a Kansas woodworker and furniture builder. We printed both on thick 600g Fluorescent White Lettra with black ink and a custom Periwinkle. Chad’s work is really amazing. A few photos are below, and a bunch more are at his website, www.chadgorges.com.
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Business Cards for Jory Brigham Design
We first worked with Jory in January when he asked us to print a display sign for his award winning ping pong table. For that project we used gold ink on 4-ply museum board (about 60pt thick). A few months later, Jory game to us for business cards. We again went with a gold-on-black look, but…
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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.
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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 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…
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Letterpress Business Card Roundup
Time for another business card roundup! After you’re done here, you might want to check out previous roundups from 2013, 2014, and just this past January. Canadian designer and photographer Amanda Benincasa (benincasadesign.com) designed these cards, complete with a letterpress QR code. We printed them with custom green and gray inks on thick 600g Fluorescent White…
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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…
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PDX Sports Fan Letterpress Coasters
Looking for the perfect gift for your beverage-sipping Portland sports fan friend? Well shoot, these aren’t for sale. But if they were, they’d be perfect… if not a little pricey. We printed the Timbers side with two inks on 300g Fluorescent White Lettra. On the opposite side, we printed a modified Trail Blazers logo with silver and red inks on…
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Soiree for 70th
This was a fun invitation set to print. Designed by graphic designer Sarah Scott, it was a festive and classy way to invite guests to Suman’s 70th birthday. Guests opened the outer envelope to find a sleeve — an Envelopments Portable Pocket with charcoal linen exterior and ecru linen interior, overprinted with fog ink –…