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Oooh, Ornithology Overprinting

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:53:32 +0000

We printed these for New Found Original – a new online shop selling a carefully selected and ever changing collection of graphic products. They commissioned artist and designer Ryan Todd to design a set of four luxury letterpress coasters for their first collaboration project and introductory collection. The coasters are now for sale at NewFoundOriginal.com and Ryantodd.com

These were letterpress printed in two colors on extra heavy 60pt blotter stock. With the colors common to all four coasters, they were printed together and die cut four up out of the press sheets. We were really happy with how well the overprinting colors actually create a much darker third color. This is overprinting at it’s best – when the illustration is really planned to make use of that third color. Complementary colors do that best.

Katie Kirk – Office Letterpress Print

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:36:08 +0000

Katie Kirk illustrated this fantastic little print to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Eight Hour Day. You can buy one of the edition in their etsy shop.

We printed it in two color letterpress on French Paper Muscletone Pure White 140lb C, at an 8.5 x 11 size.

OrangeSeed Design Holiday Tea Card

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:11:42 +0000

This is a holiday card about appealing to the sense – it looks, smells and feels just right. OrangeSeed Design created this card for their holiday message plus a cup of orange tea. We letterpress printed the cards on French Paper Poptone Sweet Tooth, 140lbC. Also included were string tags for the tea bags on the same press sheet. The card was die cut with a slit to hold the tea bags and scored into tri-fold panels.

Mix Tape Letterpress Wedding Invitations

admin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:58:11 +0000

This invite pumps up the jam with an old school boom box and mix tapes. We love it for it’s fun factor and unique departure from most wedding stationery. The horizontal size is different, the illustration is super fun and the couples initials are even in the speakers of the boom box!

Adam Ramerth at Lark designed this set. He did a fantastic job with the theme. And we must say, this is a demanding letterpress printing job. The registration is TIGHT. The two yellow and blue colors align critically over one another to create the green as they overprint. The large graphics with small type make balancing ink density a challenge. We printed the cards on Crane Lettra 110lb C 100% cotton paper with inks matching to the envelope colors chosen from the French Paper Poptone paper line. The format uses a No 10 square flap envelope rather than the standard A size invitation envelopes. The horizontal format is perfect for the boom box theme both on the cards and the outside of the envelope. We printed it all together on a single press sheet and delivered it to a super excited bride and groom.

This design is available for customization. Email us if you are interested: numbers_at_studioonfire_dot_com

New Note About This Set: We get a lot of inquiries about this invitation. Cost for this custom invitation suite starts at around $1000. However, we are also available to produce other custom invitation suites for the more budget conscious client. Please let us know what you are thinking.