Posts in business cards
Red Flooded Business Cards

Solid floods of color can be tricky with letterpress. But if you play your no-pun-intended cards right, you can get great results. Lighter/brighter colors tend to print more evenly. And die-cutting the cards rather than knife trimming can help keep the raised unprinted paper from getting squished or scuffed.

For these square cards we printed for Birmingham Developer, Ford Waters, we printed on separate sheets of 300g Fluorescent White Lettra, then duplexed and die cut. Design was done by long-time Parklife friend, Chad Martin of The G Brand.

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Business Cards for Virile Heart & Heritage

For the New Jersey grooming gurus at Virile, we printed these thick two-sided cards on 600g pearl white Lettra with tinted white and black inks. We finished them with a rich brick edge paint.

To help the impression pop, we like to use white ink tinted with a little bit of silver rather than print a completely inkless blind impression.

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Business Cards for Claire Vyverberg

For Australian freelance makeup artist, Claire Vyverberg, we printed these slick but pillowy cards on 500g Somerset paper.

From Claire's Instagram post about her rebranding...

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Artisan Business Cards for Chad Gorges

Check out these business cards and display cards for Chad Gorges, a Kansas woodworker and furniture builder. We printed both on thick 600g Fluorescent White Lettra with black ink and a custom Periwinkle.

Chad's work is really amazing. A few photos are below, and a bunch more are at his website, www.chadgorges.com.

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Business Cards for Jory Brigham Design

We first worked with Jory in January when he asked us to print a display sign for his award winning ping pong table. For that project we used gold ink on 4-ply museum board (about 60pt thick).

Love gold ink on black paper. This one's printed on super thick 60pt Rising Museum Board. #letterpress

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A few months later, Jory game to us for business cards. We again went with a gold-on-black look, but this time with thinner 2-ply museum board and metallic gold foil. We finished the cards with a rich orange edge paint.

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