Parklife Press

Custom Letterpress and Beyond

Tag: duplex

  • Foiled & Monogrammed

    We love type-only designs. This one’s got a simple monogram in Italic Garamond along with text in Neutra Light and Sloop Script. We used a custom paper — two sheets of Dark Gray 350g Colorplan duplexed to create a nice, thick 700g stock. The card was printed with silver foil, finished with silver edge paint, and…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Lavender & Mint in Scappoose

    Here’s a lovely wedding set for Parklife’s favorite brother and his favorite new wife. For the save the date we used two custom inks on thick 600g ecru paper. For the invitations, we carried through the same inks, paper, along with a few variations on the Gotham typeface. On the back of the invitation we added…

  • Growing Businesses, One Card at a Time

    You know how sometimes you have to move thousands of pounds of antique machinery from one edge of the country to another, and then get it all set up properly so you can keep your business running? Wait, you don’t? Ah … count yourself lucky. Parklife Press moved from lovely North Carolina to beautiful Portland,…