Tag Archives: business card

Your Business Card Is Crap

We watched this last week and haven’t been able to stop pulling quotes from it.

One Card For Three People

The esteemed fellows at Wilderness in Portland sent us an unusually simple business card for letterpress printing. Rather than load up the card with four telephone numbers, an email, a fax, a twitter, etc - they all simply share the same card. A nice solution for keeping cost down too. Wilderness is the new design [...]

A Tasty Food Stylin’ Business Card

As the name would imply, a stylist has to have style. This morsel was designed by Westwerk Design and was just featured in the Minnesota AIGA award show. And check out Lara’s site for some really succulent looking food photography.
The letterpress printing is tasty too. The card was printed four colors on the front and [...]

Trajectory: Shapely Cards With A Punch

The folks over at Cue don’t mess around. They designed this seriously good card with a cartouche-like outer shape. We printed a single color letterpress on each side and die cut the cards with a small punch in the center.
When you are printing a business card with letterpress on each side, usually one side is [...]

Rhymesayers Cards - Metallic Color and Heavy Ink

These guys are certainly one of the hottest Minneapolis record labels. Rhymesayers Entertainment sent us this business card design for a raw and painted letterpress look.
Production turned out sweet, but it has some letterpress challenges.
Colored Metallic Ink on Black Stock
This card is printed on a custom duplexed paper - French Construction Black glued to French [...]

Murphy & Co - Offset & Letterpress Business Card

This well crafted card was designed at VO2 Media in Minneapolis for Murphy & Co. Design, designers of exceptional residences. But don’t let the simple look of this business card fool you. It’s design subtlety has layers of complexity in production. Here’s how:
The impression is not very deep and the paper is not overly thick. [...]

Conor Lawrence - Rhino Stationery

What could be better than a letterpressed rhino ready to charge? One with wings? Ok, here it is.

This is a two color letterpress stationery set for artist rep Conor Lawrence designed by Aurora Whittet at Red Organic. The printing is red and silver metallic inks on Neenah Classic Crest Solar White. The cards are on [...]

Hey, Nice Ensemble

You know what they say about too much letterpress - you’ll eventually go blind. That is exactly what happened to our design friends at Spunk Design Machine. They created this stationery system for Ensemble with a beautiful and subtle pattern that we letterpress printed blind (a plate striking the paper with no ink). Imagine, a [...]

Portsmouth Tea Stationery - Letterpress Identity

An identity system need not have enough colors to choke a horse. Letterpress printing makes the understated shine. This system for Portsmouth Tea Company is magnificently elegant and simple. Just a single color - metallic silver. And premium materials - Crane 100% cotton paper. Notice the custom converted policy style envelope incorporating the shape into [...]