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.
Espresso ink on Colorplan Harvest paper for Tyson Terrain.
Reflex Blue on 500g Brilliant White Savoy. Design by There There Co.
Gold Satin and White foils on Colorplan Ebony paper for Spring Mountain Vineyard.
White foil on Keaykolour Biscuit.
Black and tennis-ball green letterpress on Brilliant White Savoy
At long last! We created a beautiful and compact swatch book showcasing all the ways we can bring your projects to life. The pack includes a 20-page booklet full of our cotton, Colorplan, Gmund, and museum board stocks with a range of print processes and finishing techniques, all smartly bound with a (removable) Chicago post. Want one? Get in touch and we’ll make it happen.
A few standout capabilities we’ve featured:
Blind letterpress vs. tinted-white letterpress
Tonal letterpress
Letterpress overprints
Letterpress halftones
Metallic letterpress on black paper
Metallic and satin foil stamping
White foil
Tonal foil
Holographic foil
Foil stamping over digital printing
Die cutting
Blind embossing
Foil + emboss
Letterpress labels
Hole drilling & eyelets
Washington wine-makers and friends of Parklife, Force Majeure, have some new cards. This time we went thicker, bolder, and more tightly-registered (check out the precisely-placed scarlet ink inside the gray knockout). These are printed on our Ecru 600g Lettra paper.
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.
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.
Check out these beautifully understated two-color, two-sided cards for Norfolk's Within Interior Design. For each of the eight women at the firm, we printed turquoise and warm gray inks on thick 600g Fluorescent White Lettra and added turquoise edge paint to match.
Barry Mills served as president of Maine's Bowdoin College from 2001 until this past July. Upon his departure, the college asked us to print his manifesto as a 6" x 15" letterpress poster.
Since we use a Chandler & Price platen press, which isn't really designed for larger pieces like this, we actually printed this two-color piece in four separate runs. That way we could get a nice even and deep impression into the 600g Lettra paper.
