Monthly Archives: June 2009

Jun

2009

Birds of Sadness Letterpress Poster

We designed and letterpress printed this poster for the Sweet Hair poster show featuring 37 Minneapolis artists. All prints are hair-inspired, handmade and created just for this show. A portion of proceeds benefits Locks of Love. It hangs at the Art Minion Gallery in Northeast Minneapolis until mid July. If you love hair, check out [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Completely Unrelated, Design, Letterpress, Printing Tips and Tricks | Tagged 220lb, art minion, birds of sadness, chinese, deep, Design, edition, hair, hand lettering, impression, Letterpress, lettra, line, locks of love, poster, printer, printing, proverb, sweet hair, thick, thin, type, typography | Comments (14)

Jun

2009

Serious Foodies Business Cards

We just love folks that can blur the line between the disciplines of design and illustration. Jessica Hische is certainly one of those rarities. Be sure and check out her site for more great hand lettering and typography. She designed these business cards for new project by Mischa and Jacob DeHart called Culinary Culture - [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Letterpress | Tagged 220lb, business, card, cards, cotton, crane, culinary culture, Design, edge, edge coloring, edges, handlettering, heavy, illustration, jessica hische, Letterpress, letterpress business cards, lettra, painting, printer, printing, serious foodies, thick, tipping, type, typography | Comments (11)

Jun

2009

Round Juggling Business Cards

Fuel is a great creative shop in Iowa that sent us this unique business card design for Whatsup Juggling. It is letterpress printed on thick 220lb Crane Lettra cotton paper. The inks are orange, blue and a custom contaminated opaque white. The card was then die cut into 2.5 inch circles. We then tried to [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Letterpress | Tagged 220lb, blind, blue, business, cards, circle, contaminated, cotton, crane, Design, die cut, diecut, double, double sided, Fuel, fuel inc, impression, ink, inkless, iowa, juggling, Letterpress, letterpress business cards, lettra, orange, round, thick, two sided, unique, whatsup, white | Comments (2)

Jun

2009

Old Red Hat Letterpress Business Cards

Scott Ray uses his favorite lid as his design monicker. He designed these cards using a colored paper stock and two inks. This card represents a couple really good ways to use ink on colored paper stock.
Using a colored paper is a great way to get a solid splash of color in a letterpress project [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Letterpress | Tagged 200lb, business, cards, colored, Design, duplexed, effect, french, hat, ink, Letterpress, letterpress business cards, metallic, my old red hat, opaque, paper, poptone, printing, red, scott ray, stock, transparent, unique | Comments (8)

Jun

2009

Shine Flashlight Box - Ephemera Redux

Shine Advertising Co. in Madison, WI designed this flashlight box wrapper as a promotional piece for their agency. The look is a pretty sweet 1800’s ephemera inspired style and inside is a mini Maglite flashlight. We letterpress printed in four spot colors on Smart Genisis Husk 110lb C - 100% PCW. There are three tones [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Completely Unrelated, Letterpress | Tagged 110lb, 1800, advertising, blue, box, cuts, Design, ephemera, genisis, husk, Letterpress, madison, package, packaging, PCW, press, press check, printing, red, shine, shine advertising, Smart, smart paper, type, typography, WI, wisconsin | Comments (7)

Jun

2009

Painted Pretzel Packaging - Kisscut Labels

Yael Miller designed these beautiful labels for a new company called the Painted Pretzel. She is also a contributor at another site we love - thedieline.com And these hand crafted gourmet pretzels are worth the letterpress labels. Here are some details on the production:
We printed an 8.5 x 11 sheet of Strathmore Ultimate White Wove [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Letterpress | Tagged crack, crack and peel, creative, Design, die cut, diecut, dieline, fine, food, halftone, label, labels, Letterpress, miller creative, packaging, painted pretzel, peel, printing, reverse, seal, sticker, strathmore, tiny type, typography, yael miller | Comments (8)

Jun

2009

Patterned Bliss Wedding Invitation

A simple pattern goes a long way with letterpress printing. This is a design from the bride that uses a contemporary geometric pattern with a refined gray and yellow color palette. It is pressed on Crane Lettra 110lb Cotton stock with a matching Lettra envelope. The pattern even comes across the flap of the envelope. [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Letterpress, wedding | Tagged bride design, California, contemporary, design texture, details, flap, geometric, invitation, invitations, invite, LA, Letterpress, letterpress wedding invitation, lettra, los angeles, modern, pattern, printing, simple, square, wedding, yellow | Comments (6)

Jun

2009

Botanical Garden Wedding Invitation

We recently finished this rather large letterpress wedding system designed by Priya Patel. Check out her fashion forward blog Love Made Visible. We asked her about the design:
Priya: “The background for the design is that the couple are to be married in a botanical garden and the bride Neerja was really inspired by traditional Indian [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Letterpress, wedding | Tagged botanical, canaletto, cards, cotton, Design, enclosure, garden, grana grossa, indian, invitation, invite, large, letter press, Letterpress, love made visable, navy, overlay, painting, paintings, pomagraita, priya, reception, reply, sangeet, traditional, typography, vellum, wedding | Comments (13)

Jun

2009

Falling Deer Cards

A little design and print job we just wrapped up. Robot Deer. Enough said.
Rotate an eyeball towards that real small type on the front- 1.5 point type, whew.

By Erik | Posted in Design, Letterpress | Tagged crane lettra, design services, Letterpress, pearl, pearl white, sof design, tiny type, warm gray | Comments (0)

Jun

2009

Lucky Cat

Fresh cards sent in from the good dudes at LovelyMPLS (who’ve got a real solid portfolio of design/screenprinted work). Two color print with ultra-bright day-glo pink and metallic silver on the good old 220lb Crane Lettra make for a very impressive and striking card, to say the least.
Check out that fine pattern work on the back- [...]

By Erik | Posted in Client Focus, Letterpress | Tagged 220lb, day-glow, flourescent pink, Hairline, letterpressed, lettra, Linework, LovelyMPLS, metallic ink, pattern, registration, Reversed Out, tight | Comments (3)

Jun

2009

Black + Blotter Business Cards - Space150 v23

Space 150 changes their identity every 150 days. And with an identity process and look all their own, today marks the 23rd version of the Space 150 brand. This is a business card project we’ve managed the letterpress print production on for several versions now. Designed by Ned Wright at Space 150, this simple looking [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Completely Unrelated, Letterpress | Tagged black, blotter, business, business cards, cards, Design, duplex, edge color, edge coloring, edge painting, foil, foil stamped, impression, ink, Letterpress, minneapolis, ned wright, printing, silver, space150, stonehenge, typography, unique | Comments (12)

Monthly Archives: June 2009

Birds of Sadness Letterpress Poster

Serious Foodies Business Cards

Round Juggling Business Cards

Old Red Hat Letterpress Business Cards

Shine Flashlight Box - Ephemera Redux

Painted Pretzel Packaging - Kisscut Labels

Patterned Bliss Wedding Invitation

Botanical Garden Wedding Invitation

Falling Deer Cards

Lucky Cat

Black + Blotter Business Cards - Space150 v23

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