Beast Pieces » pantone http://www.beastpieces.com Studio On Fire // Design & Letterpress Blog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:28:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Electric Green Edges http://www.beastpieces.com/2009/04/electric-green-edges/ http://www.beastpieces.com/2009/04/electric-green-edges/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:15:19 +0000 admin http://www.beastpieces.com/?p=1167 _0003_dohmen__cards_edge_colored_stacks

Edge coloring is an amazing addition to a letterpress project. These are a couple thousand cards stacked up, just completed for GS Design in Milwaukee. They designed these for their client Dohmen. The radial dots are a nice contemporary design on the face of the card and the sides are a matching vibrant green. They are printed in two PMS colors on thick 165lb Neenah Solar White.

We can match edges to any printed PMS color. And the effect looks at it’s best on stock 160lb or thicker. It’s taken us a few years of practice to get the edge coloring production process just right, so we are purposefully a bit elusive about exactly how we do this. It has something to do with unicorn tears and hens teeth. ;) The effect is much more subtle when seen as a single business card and always makes people take a closer look.

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House of Monks is one of our favorite cards using this process. Her design takes the color printed on the face of the card and matches that same color on the edge. So simple and modern, we call that sweeeet.

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