I designed this logo for Louis Bock, Chance Creek Winery‘s owner/winegrower many years ago, but only recently turned the design into a business card for the busy Redwood Valley entrepreneur. I used a black/white duplex paper (the back is white) and gold foil, which gleams like a little piece of jewelry. Here are several more [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Chance Creek Winegrower’s Gold Foil Letterpress Business Cards on Black Duplex Paper
Posted in Business Cards & Stationery, Graphic Design, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Printing, Logo Design, tagged Business Cards, Couture Business Cards, Fabulous Letterpress!, Graphic Design, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Printing, Logo Design, Silver Foil on Black Business Cards on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Comparison of Ink and Various Foil Colors on Very Thick Letterpress Business Cards
Posted in Business Cards & Stationery, Business Cards for Photographers, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Business Cards for International Photographers, tagged 600 gsm Cranes Lettra Paper, Business Cards, Fabulous Letterpress!, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Cards, Letterpress Printing, Silver Foil on Black Business Cards on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s very incredible how different media can change the mood and tone of a business card’s message. In this post you can see the same design, Kim Ashley’s AK Photography card, in many guises. The view above shows black ink that had to be run very heavily for coverage, on 600 gram white Cranes Lettra. [...]
“MY business card…just sold me a job!” Letterpress Printed Business Cards: the Best Selling Tool You Can Own
Posted in Business Cards & Stationery, Business Cards for Photographers, Graphic Design, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Identity Campaigns, Letterpress Business Cards for International Photographers, Letterpress Printing, Logo Design, Uncategorized, tagged Business Cards, Business cards for wedding photographers, Couture Business Cards, Fabulous Letterpress!, Graphic Design, letterpress, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Cards, Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Printing for International Clients, Logo Design on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
MY business card…just sold me a job! An artist hired me because of your artistry. Thank you forever. Big hugs & love, Cathy Simplicity itself. Cathy’s cards were printed in turquoise and gray inks, front and back, on Somerset Watercolor Paper The rave review I just got from Cathy Carpizo, my friend and client who [...]
Matt Land Photography — Super-Thick, Black, Silvery Letterpress Business Cards Take a Trip to Mexico
Posted in Black Business Cards with Foil Stamping, Business Cards & Stationery, Business Cards for Photographers, Graphic Design, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Business Cards for International Photographers, Letterpress Printing, tagged Business Cards, Business cards for wedding photographers, Couture Business Cards, Fabulous Letterpress!, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Cards, Letterpress Printing, Silver Foil on Black Business Cards on January 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
We recently had the pleasure of working on business cards for Seattle photographer Matt Land. The cards we printed for him echo Matt’s hip, true-life, documentary style, and he designed the typography himself. We used a silver foil next to an opaque white foil on super-heavy Museum Mount paper that is over 1/16 inch thick, [...]
Interior Designer Stacy Naquin’s Understated “Bling” Letterpress Business Cards
Posted in Black Business Cards with Foil Stamping, Business Cards & Stationery, Graphic Design, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Identity Campaigns, Interior Designers' Business Cards, Letterpress Printing, Logo Design, tagged 600 gsm Cranes Lettra Paper, Business Cards, Couture Business Cards, Fabulous Letterpress!, Graphic Design, Identity Programs, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Cards, Letterpress Printing, Silver Foil on Black Business Cards on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Stacy Naquin’s photo shoot of her recently completed business cards is completely like… VOGUE or something. I love it that the “models” were created by me and Studio Z Mendocino printer Rhea Rynearson. Stacy said the silver foil often gets lost in photographs and she wanted to show the amazing thickness of the stock, so [...]
Roofing Company’s New Logo Design — Eco-Chic Letterpress Business Cards and Stationery
Posted in Business Cards & Stationery, Graphic Design, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Identity Campaigns, Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Stationery Wardrobe, tagged Business Cards, Couture Business Cards, Fabulous Letterpress!, Graphic Design, Identity Programs, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Cards, Letterpress Printing, Silver Foil on Black Business Cards on January 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Jeannie Chapman has been one of our favorite clients for many, many years. We loved working on her Buffalo Road Design business cards way back in the ’90s, which used brown ink and copper foil. When she called last year to have us design a new logo for her husband Kenny Groth’s new roofing company, [...]
MacDaddy’s Chic Black Letterpress Business Cards with Silver Foil
Posted in Black Business Cards with Foil Stamping, Business Cards & Stationery, Graphic Design, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Identity Campaigns, Letterpress Printing, Logo Design, What I'm Doing, tagged Fabulous Letterpress!, Graphic Design, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Cards, Logo Design on January 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Taylor Dutra, Fort Bragg entrepreneur, pizza house owner, daddy and, newly, MAC technician… Is there anything this guy can’t do? Taylor wanted us to make business cards for his new business that would stand out from the ordinary and make prospective clients want to keep them forevermore (rather than throw them out when they clean [...]
PerspectivEye Photography — Gabe McClintock’s Black & White & Red All Over Letterpress Business Cards
Posted in Business Cards & Stationery, Business Cards for Photographers, Letterpress Business Cards for International Photographers, Letterpress Printing, tagged 600 gsm Cranes Lettra Paper, Business Cards, Business Cards for Children's Photographers, Business cards for wedding photographers, Fabulous Letterpress!, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Cards, Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Printing for International Clients on January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We made Calgary photographer Gabe McClintock‘s letterpress business cards many moons ago but here we are in the new decade finally showing them to you. Gabe came to me with his wonderful PerspectivEye logo and business card design already in place so we just did the letterpress work on 600 gram Cranes Lettra. His web [...]
Zuma Weddings Letterpress Business Cards — Less-is-THE-MOST
Posted in Business Cards & Stationery, Business Cards for Photographers, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Business Cards for International Photographers, Letterpress Printing, Weddings, tagged 600 gsm Cranes Lettra Paper, Business Cards, Business cards for wedding photographers, Couture Business Cards, Fabulous Letterpress!, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Cards, Letterpress Printing on January 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Marin County photographer Dave Barber of Zuma Weddings had us make these chic, minimalist business cards last year. They were beautifully letterpress printed in black and deep red inks onto our favorite Cranes Lettra 600 gram stock, for maximum impression with no flicker on the back. The asymmetrical layout, no embellishment, less-is-definitely-more aesthetic trumpets Dave’s [...]
