Parklife Press

Custom Letterpress and Beyond

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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…

  • 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…

  • Calistoga Oak

    This design is a testament to inspiration and collaboration, and to taking aspects from different designs to create your your dream union of design elements. To follow that metaphor, this set is a sort of marriage of the Californian and Vignette designs, with some art adopted from an earlier set. The oak tree illustration is…

  • Perforation Perfection

    This was a really fun set. Designed by graphic designer (and groom) Derek Howles — who, incidentally, also designs these super-cool cartography poster prints — it was interesting and unconventional. And art-y! Which is fitting, since they got married at the North Carolina Museum of Art. The set was comprised of a save the date…

  • Drawing Inspiration: Art, Cultural Traditions, Local Pride

    From a creative professional’s perspective, Sneha and Dylan were dream clients. The did research, they “shopped local,” and they visited the studio — both to talk with Travis, and to see (and feel) letterpress samples in person. Most importantly, they had a solid design vision and provided concrete inspiration and references. Parklife Press did custom…

  • Timeless Black on White

    Michelle and Stephen weren’t familiar with letterpress when they began planning their black tie wedding, but a love of elegant invitations had been instilled in Michelle an early age. Her grandmother used to frame beautiful invitations she received, and Michelle had always admired those with simple black calligraphy on a white note card. Parklife’s Vignette…

  • Winter Wonder

    Trish Burton was helping her daughter plan a winter wedding, and was looking for winter-themed ​invitations. She was familiar with letterpress, as she had used it for her other daughter’s wedding, but was unable to find any designs in her area that felt right. After finding Parklife Press and communicating with Travis, she had the…

  • A Handful of New Letterpress Business Cards

    We’ve added some great new cards to our business gallery. Take a look… These double-sided cards for Cedarly, a media and web branding company in North Carolina, feature their logo printed with a tinted white ink. We could have just as easily blind-pressed the logo (no ink at all), but the tinted white helps it…