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Please Use a Coaster

We printed a ton of these amazing coaster last year and it’s not even humid here! If you want to take a few of them off my hands, shoot me an email with your mailing address.

The detail is pretty damn nice. For the front we started with a transparent tinted letterpress background floral pattern, then layered white gloss foil and then a metallic foil — color variable depending on the paper. For the back we used the same floral pattern plus a dark gray letterpress ink on 100% post consumer white folding board.

Oh, and the little chipboard packets are letterpresses as well.

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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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Botanical Green & Gold Wedding Invites
Wedding invitation with letterpress and gold foil on green paper

We worked closely with Samantha and Devon to come up with this invitation design for their New York Botanical Garden wedding. The color scheme and primary typeface are nice and bold, but the tonal letterpress details are super delicate. We printed on thick custom duplexed Colorplan stock so that it would hold up nicely to the heavy impression.

PAPER Custom duplexed 700g Colorplan Forest
INK Tonal letterpress
FOIL Gold Satin

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Rose Gold In Rhode Island
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The simplicity of this beautifully modern bride-designed invitation set is deceiving! The production of this 5-piece suite required letterpress ink, foil stamping, inkjet printing, and duplexing.

The invitation features a mix of serif and san-serif letterpress text along with a small floral motif that we added in an inkjet run.

The reply postcard is a bit trickier, created from two 300g sheets, one letterpress printed and one inkjet printed and then foiled over the top. Then we duplexed and trimmed to create a single thick 600g card.

On to the agenda card! This one's printed with letterpress ink on the front and inkjet on the back of a single 300g sheet.

Finally, the reception card, travel insert, and envelope were more straightforward. Simple gray letterpress ink on 300g paper and a 120g cotton envelope.

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