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
Oversized letterpress wedding invitations for Kiera and Patrick’s fall wedding in NYC. We pressed tined white and black inks on thick 600g Lettra paper. Blind letterpress is an option here too, but the tint really helps the detail pop on the paper.
These duplexed business cards were printed as part of a larger suite of collateral we worked on for the Hattiesburg landscapers at Shade. Everything was designed by Whitney Miracle, and she picked out an awesome combination of Kraft-Tone papers from French Paper Company along with platinum and pale green foils.
PAPER Kraft-Tone Carbon Copy, Kraft-Tone Packing Chip
FOIL Platinum, Satin Apple
INK Tinted White
Wonderfully simple business cards for Jason Ham. Designed by the client and printed by us.
PAPER 600g Fluorescent White
INK Black, Tinted White
For the Portland-area phone lovers at PhoneLove we printed two-sided business cards on 600g Fluorescent White paper. Most featured purple on both sides, while select folks got a subtle tinted-white logo for a blind-deboss look.
We rounded out the set with some folded notes.
These cards, printed for Los Angeles cycling studio BESPOKE, are printed on thick 600g Fluorescent White paper with tinted white on the front and two inks on the back. We finished them with a bright orange-red to match the ink.
A couple shots of BESPOKE's LA studio:
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.