A Gold-foiled Whirl

For Courtney and Ben's set, we started with our popular Whirl invitation, but added gold foil and edge paint for some extra pizzazz.

The original Whirl uses gold ink, which has just the slightest hint of metallic shimmer. But gold foil is something else entirely — it's extremely shiny with a reflective mirrored look. And if you'd like something in between, our gold satin foil is a little less intense than the gold shine used here.

For paper, Courtney and Ben went with our thick and textured soft white 600g Arturo in a 5x7 size with rounded corners. We finished out the set with our euro-flap Arturo envelopes and a gold foil + black letterpress flap.

wedding invitationsTravis FriedrichMay 10, 2016gold, foil, rounded corners, edge painting, Arturo, black, whirl, soft white, Burgues Script, Mrs Eaves, reply card, envelope flapComment

Holographic Foil For Bakedown Cakery

We first met Jen back in 2014 when we printed the wonderful invitation set she designed. Since then she's been hard at work building her cake-baking empire at Bakedown Cakery.

Check out her work below, and if you don't get too distracted by the cakes, scroll down to see the awesome duplexed letterpress + holographic foil business cards we printed for her.

business cardsTravis FriedrichMay 3, 2016Parklife Pressblack, pink, fuchsia fireball, rising museum board, foil, holographic, Astrobrights, duplexComment

REBLOG: Studio Photos by Gritchelle Fallesgon

Right around the same time Parklife Press was making the move from North Carolina out to Portland, Gritchelle was packing up her San Francisco apartment and heading up to Portland as well. We ended up just a few blocks from each other. As part of a portrait project capturing creative Portlanders in their element, Gritchelle photographed me during a press run this January. Her blog post is here, and I'm reposting a bunch of her shots below.

studioTravis FriedrichApril 6, 2016Parklife Pressstudio, letterpress, photos, photographyComment

Minty Cards for Northbourne Architecture + Design

These striking cards for Melbourne architecture firm Northbourne were printed on 600g Fluorescent White Lettra with a blind impression on the front and black and custom mint ink on the back. Finished with mint edges match. Printed by Parklife and designed by JT at A Door Ajar.

Letterpress Business Cards with Edge Paint

business cardsTravis FriedrichMarch 15, 2016blind deboss, fluorescent white, Lettra, edge painting, mint, black Comments

Business Cards for Dixon Kirby

Another G Brand design, this one for design and builders Dixon Kirby. These are duplexed cards, printed with two inks on Pearl White Lettra for the front, and one ink on Adriatic Colorplan for the back.

business cardsTravis FriedrichMarch 8, 2016lion, duplex, colorplan, adriatic, blue, gray, pearl white, Lettra Comment

A Golden Hex

Bax's cards presented a special challenge. Normally, to create an odd shape (basically anything non-rectangular), we'd make a die and die-cut the cards. But Bax wanted edge paint — and a die-cut edge isn't crisp enough to paint cleanly. So we (very carefully) knife-cut these 600g fluorescent white hexagons with our 19th century guillotine cutter, then edged them with metallic gold paint.

business cardsTravis FriedrichMarch 1, 2016hexagon, edge painting, gold, fluorescent white, black, 600gComment

Ostrich Invitations

At the time of this post, a Google image search for "ostrich wedding invitation" turns up not a single invite with a full ostrich. Ostrich feathers, sure. But no full birds. Chia and Kendall sought to change that, and we were happy to help.

Using our Fountain invitation as a template, we added a confidently-posed custom-drawn ostrich to the top, and carried the artwork through to website cards and thank you notes (notes regrettably not pictured).

wedding invitationsTravis FriedrichFebruary 23, 2016ostrich, fountain, black, pearl white, 600g, 300g, brick, red, reply card, website cardComment