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 [...]
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Also tagged 13 x 18, 220lb, business card, color, cotton, dark, DDC, Draplin, Field Notes, Heidelberg, Letterpress, letterpress services, lettra, Nakamoto, OR, pearl, Phemister, portland, printer, printing, solid, stock, typography, white, Wilderness, Windmill
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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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Also tagged 165lb, AIGA, award, business card, color, Design, flat, food stylist, ink, Lara Miklasevics, Letterpress, letterpress services, minnesota, neenah, offset, paper, printing, thick, westwerk
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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, Design, expensive, 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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Since letterpress doesn’t do a great job flooding a page with ink, designers must come up with production alternatives to bring in big areas of color. One of the things that can be done when designing for letterpress is combining different colored paper stocks. This works especially well for projects with multiple pieces that need [...]
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Posted in Letterpress
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Also tagged 220lb, business cards, colored, crane, envelope, envelopes, jason strong, Letterpress, letterpress services, lettra, offset, paper, space150, stationary, stationery, thick, two sided
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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 [...]
By StudioOnFire
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Posted in Letterpress
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Also tagged business papers, businss cards, card, Design, envelope, ink, letterhead, Letterpress, letterpress services, mucca, ocean house, offset, stationary, stationery
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