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Business Cards by Neiter Creative
Letterpress Business Card with tonal gray ink on dark gray paper

Has it only been six years? In 2020 we worked on our first project for Neiter Creative: a set of super simple but striking business cards for their client, NOVO, a Nashville design + build firm. Since that first job we’ve collaborated with Neiter on over 90 projects (!) — holiday cards, product tags, magazine sleeves, presentation folders, and more than anything else, business cards. In this post I’ll feature just a few favorites that capture Neiter’s minimalistic, powerful, but approachable aesthetic.

Novo

As with most of the pieces you’ll see in this post, Neiter Creative designed this as a duplexed card — two separate sheets of card stock letterpress printed first, then glued together, and then trimmed. That means the front and back can be printed on different stocks, and it also means there’s no hint of letterpress impression show-through on the opposite side of the card.

FRONT Tonal letterpress on 300g Keaykolour Sombre Grey (sadly discontinued!)
BACK Black letterpress on 300g Lettra Fluorescent White

KATIE DAVIS DESIGN

Another hallmark of Neiter’s business card design: European sizing. Notice that the ratio is a little more stout than an American card. To me this ratio feels more balanced, especially in a vertical orientation.

FRONT Pantone 645U letterpress on 320g Savoy Brilliant White
BACK White foil on 270g Colorplan New Blue

HOLLAND INTERIORS

I love this one, particularly the way that the swooping logo follows the contour of the tonal letterpress background impression.

FRONT Tonal letterpress + Bronze foil on 300g Gmund Chocolate
BACK Pantone 2449U letterpress on 320g Savoy Natural White

Kara Adam Interiors

Such a great paper color combo for this duplexed card: teal and navy stocks, both made by German paper mill Gmund. For the Kara Adam logo we used matte pigment foil instead of letterpress ink which gives a super opaque almost chalky look to the impression.

FRONT Matte Navy foil on 300g Gmund Dark Teal
BACK White foil on Gmund Dark Navy

Meg Lonergan

XL cards for Meg Lonergan Interiors. We printed a batch on pillowy 100% cotton Lettra Ecru and another on Gmund Sun Glow. Thanks to Jo Neiter for these amazing photos!

FRONT Black letterpress on 300g Lettra Ecru and 300g Gmund Sun Glow
BACK Black letterpress on 300g Lettra Ecru and 300g Gmund Sun Glow

Jay Baker Architects

The rare Neiter single-ply card! White and black matte foils on Gmund Used, a German-made 100% recycled paper.

FRONT Matte White foil + Matte Black foil on 300g Gmund Used Blue

NICOLE ZARR

This card for Nicole Zarr is duplexed with two layers of the same stock so that we’re not seeing any impression show-through and the impressions aren’t flattening each other.

FRONT Pantone 2320U on 300g Lessebo Sunflower
BACK Pantone 2320U on 300g Lessebo Sunflower

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Garden Variety Business Cards
Textured Letterpress Business Card

Letterpress and sunshine! Spring in Portland is no joke — vibrant like just about no other place I’ve been. And there’s nothing better than natural light to bring out the texture of our work.

Above we’ve got black and tinted white letterpress on pillowy 2-ply Lettra paper for SF design firm BAMO. More carefully curated springtime/letterpress pairings below.

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White Foil Duplexed Business Cards for Skornicka

Beautifully designed business cards by Sophia Studio. Honored to help execute the vision with white foil on Colorplan Stone paper for the front, off-black letterpress ink on Fluorescent White Lettra paper for the back.

White foil on colored paper is such a great choice when you want reversed text. Opaque white letterpress ink doesn’t tend to print crisply and it’s not totally opaque. And printing a color flood background with knocked out text can look uneven and can lead to scuffing. White foil prints crisply and has near 100% opacity.

Photos by Gritchelle
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Business Cards for Silvergrin and Sespe Creek Distilleries
Foil and letterpress business cards for Silvergrin Vodka

The first of two business cards we printed for clients of the incomparable designer Chad Makerson Micheal. This one’s kinda nuts: A duplexed card with three letterpress inks plus sliver foil on the front, three letterpress inks on the back, glued and die-cut. Super tight registration on the inks and foil all around.

PAPER Duplexed Gmund Matt 46
INK Black, PMS 2035U, PMS 2327U
FOIL Silver Shine
FINISHING Duplex, Die-cut

This next one for Sespe Creek is another duplexed card with three letterpress inks both front and back. Such an awesome level of detail in Chad’s designs — perfect for letterpress printing.

PAPER Duplexed Gmund Matt 50
INK Tinted White, PMS 3015U, PMS 2035U
FINISHING Duplex, Die-cut

Photos by Gritchelle
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Embossed & Letterpressed Business Cards

Embossed and duplexed business cards for Portland’s Wildwood House!

If you’re printing a two-sided business card and you don’t want to see the reverse of your embossed image on the back of the piece, we can duplex two sheets after embossing to hide the embossing. For this set, we embossed 350g Colorplan Pistachio, printed black letterpress on 300g Lettra Fluorescent White, glued the two together, and then die-cut to finish the card.

It’s also a good idea to die-cut an embossed & duplexed card rather than trim it on a standard guillotine cutter. That way the emboss doesn’t get mashed by the cutter clamp.

PAPER Duplexed Colorplan Pistachio & Lettra Fluorescent White
INK Black
FINISHING Die-cut

Photos by Gritchelle
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