Tag Archives: stock

May

04

2009

Black Tie & Black Paper: Wedding In Edinburgh

Setting the tone for a black tie event with rich black paper just seems logical. Black paper should actually be a requirement if you are having a reception in a castle. (insert jealous sigh here) This contemporary type and linear design is letterpress printed with silver ink on 250gsm Stonehenge Black Paper in a horizontal [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Letterpress, wedding | Also tagged black, black tie, castle, copenhagen, denmark, Design, dublin, edinburgh, field, fieldmice, ink, ireland, Letterpress, letterpress services, minneapolis, minnesota, paper, printing, reception, silver, stonehenge, type, typography, wedding | Comments (9)

Apr

20

2009

Electric Green Edges

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 [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Letterpress | Also tagged 160lb, 165lb, accent, bright, business, card, color, coloring, contemporary, cover, edge, green, heavy, Letterpress, letterpress services, paint, pantone, paper, pms, printed, printer, printing, stack, stain, thick, typography | Comments (11)

Apr

19

2009

Bingo, A Meat Raffle And Letterpress

If you aren’t sure what a “meat raffle” is you should really look it up to fully understand the heritage of this design. It’s good to see a fine establishment carry on this noble tradition. Our friends at Fame created this cuss-worthy design for

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Letterpress | Also tagged 60, 60pt, a10, bar, beer, board, brown, coaster, dark, darts, Design, dive, envelope, ephemera, Fame, fameretail, foos ball, gold, heavy, ink, invitation, invite, Letterpress, letterpress services, meat, metallic, minneapolis, minnesota, orange, party, point, pulp, raffle, Sam Soulek, sizing, thick, typography, vintage | Comments (8)

Apr

18

2009

Your Business Card Is Crap

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

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Completely Unrelated | Also tagged business, business card, card, crap, Design, humor, Letterpress, paper, video | Comments (14)

Apr

15

2009

Tuscany Semi Formal Wedding Invitation

Designer Aya Ikegaya created this beautiful invitation structure for a wedding in Tuscany, Italy. We produced this by combining letterpress printing with blind embossing. The outer sleeve is actually the invitation. Inside is a thick cotton card letterpress printed with

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Letterpress, wedding | Also tagged aya ikegaya, blind, copper, cotton, die, emboss, embossing, Formal, invitation, invite, Letterpress, letterpress services, lettra, no ink, paper, Semi, Tuscany, wedding | Comments (5)

Apr

14

2009

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 [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Letterpress | Also tagged 13 x 18, 220lb, business card, color, cotton, dark, DDC, Draplin, Field Notes, flood, Heidelberg, Letterpress, letterpress services, lettra, Nakamoto, OR, pearl, Phemister, portland, printer, printing, solid, typography, white, Wilderness, Windmill | Comments (2)

Apr

13

2009

Skin Of The Night By Deuce 7

One of the finest poster shops around is Art Minion in Northeast Minneapolis. We just completed a letterpress poster edition called “Skin Of The Night” they commissioned for artist Deuce 7. His fantastic illustrative style is influenced by train yards and riding the rails.
We completed the edition on a variety of colored stocks with an [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Letterpress | Also tagged 27, 7, art, art minion, copper, dark, deuce, edition, fine, gold, ink, Letterpress, letterpress services, metallic, minneapolis, northeast, poster, print, silver, train, twenty seven | Comments (1)

Apr

07

2009

Four Friends Letterpress Business Cards - Pt 1

This is a big post with lots of images so be sure and see Part 2 as well.
We’ve been an online friend with French designer Fabien Barrel for a while. He’s been kind enough to show our press work on his Graphic Exchange website. His site is a finely curated collection of designers and projects [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Letterpress | Also tagged blind, business cards, card, fabien barrel, france, fred dauzat, french, graphic exchange, heavy, impression, ink, Letterpress, letterpress services, limited press, minneapolis, minnesota, paper, so goods, thick | Comments (4)

Apr

07

2009

Four Friends Letterpress Business Cards - Pt 2

This is part two showing the production of business cards on our Heidelberg Windmill. Be sure and see Part 1 showing the finished cards.
We start with a high resolution film negative. The negative is used to expose the plastic plates. The plates are attached to an aluminum base and placed into the press. The press [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Letterpress, Printing Tips and Tricks | Also tagged 10 x 15, 10x15, blind, business cards, card, fabien barrel, france, fred dauzat, french, graphic exchange, heavy, Heidelberg, impression, ink, Letterpress, letterpress services, limited press, minneapolis, minnesota, paper, press room, printer, printing, so goods, thick, Windmill | Comments (4)

Mar

24

2009

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 [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in Letterpress | Also tagged 179lb, business card, cotton, cover, crane, cue, design cue, die cut, die cutting, Letterpress, letterpress services, minneapolis, pearl white, punch, trajectory | Comments (1)

Mar

04

2009

Secret Agent Man Letterpress Business Cards

The thickness of these cards allows them to also serve as a secret weapon. When your primary audience for business card hand off is art directors and designers, your card had better be memorable. A 55 point coaster board makes them fantastically textural and unstoppable. Clockwork Active Media Systems designed these for photographer rep Jeff [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in News | Also tagged 55 point, 55pt, board, business cards, clockwork, clockwork active media, coaster, cracking, jeff cerise, Letterpress, letterpress services, minneapolis, photographer, rep, salty, secret agent man, thick, ultra | Comments (5)

Mar

02

2009

Black Paper: White Vs. Silver Inks

Here is an image comparison of “opaque” white ink to silver ink. We did this little letterpress test to illustrate why opaque ink really isn’t opaque.

Note: The small type in these images is about 4 point serif type.
We offer letterpress services to designers around the country and are constantly asked to print white ink on [...]

By StudioOnFire | Posted in News | Also tagged black letterpress, black paper, business cards, card, colored, double, engrave, engraving, foil stamping, foiling, ink, letterpress services, metallic, minneapolis, opaque, silver, stationery, tip, white | Comments (8)