Parklife Press

Custom Letterpress and Beyond

Tag: edge painting

  • Square Cards for BRIGHT DESIGNLAB

    Duplexed, edge-painted, blind-debossed business cards for Portland’s BRIGHT DESIGNLAB. Since the subtlety of the blind-pressed pattern on the front of the card is crucial, we couldn’t press both sides of the paper. So we printed the front and back on separate 300g sheets, the glued, trimmed, and edge-painted.  PAPER 600g Pearl White (Duplexed)INK Black, Blind debossEDGES Black

  • Flourished Black on White

    Simple black on white with beautiful calligraphy from Pier Gustafson. PAPER 600g Fluorescent WhiteINK BlackEDGES Gold

  • Tigers & Lemons

    These oversized square invitations feature our Tungsten letterpress ink along with a digitally printed “tigers & lemons” wedding seal provided by the couple. As they put it, “Tiger” is the bride’s term of endearment for the groom as he is the fourth Shoemaker to hold “Tigert” as his middle name. “Lemons” is the groom’s term…

  • Fluorescent Festivities | Neon Nuptials

    These might be my favorite client-designed invitations this year. The bride, Nisha, designed three different invites for her various California wedding festivities. All three have a common feel — employing the same border art, black ink, and copperplate type. But Nisha used different title art for each and we printed them with three different fluorescent letterpress…

  • Biz Cards by Floc5

    Here we’ve got a couple of sweet business cards designed by Sarah at Kansas City’s Floc5. Connect with them on twitter (@floc5) or at their website. The first is for Floc5 Homes — printed in rich black ink on thick, bright 600g Fluorescent White cotton stock. Next we’ve got skinny cards for Amy Slattery of the…

  • Golden Black Squares for MA Allen Interiors

    Another awesome duplexed card. This one’s for interior design firm, MA Allen Interiors. We actually printed wedding invitations for the firm’s founder back in 2010, and she came back to us for business cards after opening her Raleigh firm. On the front we’ve got gold foil on 30pt black museum board — and on the…