This is a CD package we designed and letterpress printed for Erik Brandt with illustrations by Andy DeVore. He put this CD together after spending a year teaching in Hungary. The structure houses both a fold up lyric sheet and a CD. We printed the packaging with two ink colors on 140lb French Poptone. The [...]
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Posted in Design, Letterpress
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Also tagged 140lb, andy devore, CD, compact, cut, die, diecut, dieline, disc, disk, erik brandt, french, Letterpress, minneapolis, Windmill
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Coming soon to an alphabet near you is a typographic mash up. Once again Spunk Design Machine created a simply amazing poster, this time for Chank. Be sure and check him out as he tours the design community.
And getting smashed comes easy for paper on a letterpress. Hot off our big Heidelberg cylinder press, these [...]
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Posted in Letterpress
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Also tagged chank, cylinder, Heidelberg, ksba, large format, Letterpress, letterpress services, machine, poster, printing, spunk, type, typography
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In the spirit of the freemasons, there exists a creative group called Levy 7. Not much is known - they describe themselves as, “a collection of like-minded individuals who, through their awesomeness and grace, elevate the larger group in any and every social and professional endeavor, making us simply the most dynamic advertising sleeper cell/social [...]
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Posted in Letterpress
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Also tagged BBDO, black, business cards, cigar band, designworks, die cut, die cutting, duplex, ink, labels, Letterpress, letterpress services, luxury, metallic, new york, paper, printers, printing, remoist, sleeper cell, typography
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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 [...]
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Posted in Letterpress
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Also tagged 165lb, AIGA, award, business card, color, flat, flood, food stylist, ink, Lara Miklasevics, Letterpress, letterpress services, minnesota, neenah, offset, paper, printing, thick, westwerk
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What does a really classy guy do when it is time to pop the big question? Buy a ring to be sure. But here is another little something - a small book of various emails between the couple, collected, bound and side sewn as a letterpress book. We designed this little gem as a request [...]
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Posted in Design, Letterpress
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Also tagged 80lb, black, book, book cloth, crane, design services, edition, engagement, fold, folded, french, hard cover, Letterpress, letterpress services, lettra, metallic, paper, sewing, side sewn, stitched, text
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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. [...]
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Also tagged business card, cheap, complex, crafted, expensive, flood, Letterpress, letterpress business cards, letterpress services, line screen, Murphy & Co Design, Murphy and Company, offset, paper, quantity, rub off, transfer, typography, uncoated, vignette, VO2 Media
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This uniquely shaped invitation was designed by us at Studio On Fire. It is one of the most interesting die lines we’ve created for wedding invitations - elegant and fun at the same time. It is a simple green one color letterpress on white paper with that same green printing on a green paper for [...]
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Also tagged belly band, buckled, clear bag, design services, die cut, die line, diecut, enclosure, invitation, invitations, invite, Letterpress, letterpress services, minneapolis, shape, shaped, wedding
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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 [...]
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Posted in Letterpress
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Also tagged blind, business card, ensemble, envelope, impression, letterhead, Letterpress, minneapolis, No. 10, pattern, printing, services, spunk, spunk design machine, stationary, stationery, system, Tea Slip, thick
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Our good friends at Mucca Design in NYC designed this beauty. A tight piece of typography with a punch of color to bring everything to life makes this system sweet.
The large color flood on the back of everything is offset printed. Then we printed two color letterpress. The paper is Monadnock PC100 throughout which gives [...]
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Posted in Letterpress
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Also tagged business papers, businss cards, card, envelope, flood, ink, letterhead, Letterpress, letterpress services, mucca, ocean house, offset, stationary, stationery
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Our blog was just selected by How Design as a “top 10 site for designers”. You found us. See the rest of the list here.
Thanks How!
This is a poster designed and letterpressed at Studio On Fire. It was for a gallery show called the Poster Offensive put on by our good friends at Spunk Design at the Frank Stone gallery in Minneapolis.
A couple years ago when this poster was designed, our countries leaders were talking about “exporting democracy”. I thought [...]
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Posted in Design, Letterpress
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Also tagged Ben Levitz, Benjamin Levitz, compassion, cotton, export democracy, large format, Letterpress, letterpressed, minneapolis, poster, poster offensive, printing, spunk design
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When we work with designers on projects we have conversations about “production strategy.” Sometimes letterpress is a good fit for the design intent, sometimes not. And often times we combine other production methods to achieve the effect being sought after. Black business cards present a range of production challenges. Flooding a white paper with black [...]
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Posted in Letterpress
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Also tagged antidote x, black, business cards, die cut, duplex, engraved, engraving, foil, foiled, ink, jaime wickard, Letterpress, letterpress services, minneapolis, opaque, paper, print, printing, production, silver, strategy, westwerk, white, white ink
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It started back in high school art class. I was a junior and there was this senior that sat in the back doing pottery and was always throwing frickin’ balls of clay at my head while I was trying to draw. Fast forward over a decade and both of us have design careers. Me - [...]
This is a promo piece designed by our friends at Swink. We had this job on press a while back and wanted to show the exquisite finished project. It was 3/2 PMS letterpress printing plus lasercutting. Note the overprinting blue and orange to create the brown. All this on a 220lb C. tree free, reclaimed [...]