A while back we printed a bunch of letterpress samples for Gigi Press. We still get a kick out of the way edge painting can make a simple letterpress design look so cool.
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A while back we had the opportunity to print some letterpress business collateral pieces for Revival, including these letterpress hang tags. They are a cool combination of simple typography on recycled chip board, which we printed and then hole drilled for merchandising.
Dubbed The Scarlet Lettering, the third edition of the Cloudy Collection was amazingly cool to print. Appropriately enough, this series of illustrations was printed in a bright red ink and blind deboss with a hit of transparent white for a bold and graphic effect. For more information about the Cloudy Collection check out our interview with Cloudy Collection mastermind Dave Huyck. All of the prints in the Cloudy Collection series are available for sale on the Cloudy Collection website.
Printed for CardsInk, this cool XO greeting card is our idea of a sweet Valentine’s Day card. We’re with CardsInk on this one – while we don’t exactly know when, how or why XOXO came to mean hugs and kisses, we’re digging this quirky illustration.
In addition to having a whole lot of letterpresses in our print shop, we do have a few offset presses that we use for doing cool things like….flat printing custom envelope liners! We tried letterpress printing them at first, but the solids strained our presses, and with such a large form, we got such a light impression that it looked identical to flat printing anyway….so now we use our letterpresses for things that letterpress is good at (almost everything), and we use our offset presses for things like huge envelope liner solids! After printing the large liners, we send them through a die-cut run on our Heidelberg Cylinder and then hand-insert the finished liners into the envelopes. We fell in love with these bright red liners….
This letterpress business card was just a pleasure to print and photograph (we took about 30 pictures total – we couldn’t help ourselves!). The design was perfect for (3 color!) letterpress….we love the colors and the little accent of red. The back was flat printed in two colors. Vibrant and just a pleasure to hold. Printed for Jodi Boss of In Any Event.
Something letterpress sweet (with a really nice solid, I have to say!) from our print shop.