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, Design, flat, flood, food stylist, ink, Lara Miklasevics, Letterpress, letterpress services, minnesota, neenah, offset, 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, design services, edition, engagement, fold, folded, french, hard cover, Letterpress, letterpress services, lettra, metallic, 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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Posted in News
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Also tagged business card, cheap, complex, crafted, Design, expensive, flood, Letterpress, letterpress business cards, letterpress services, line screen, Murphy & Co Design, Murphy and Company, offset, 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, flood, jason strong, Letterpress, letterpress services, lettra, offset, space150, stationary, stationery, thick, two sided
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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, Design, die cut, duplex, engraved, engraving, foil, foiled, ink, jaime wickard, Letterpress, letterpress services, minneapolis, opaque, print, printing, production, silver, strategy, westwerk, white, white ink
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