We’ve been getting questions about “reverse letterpress” lately and I wanted to show you this effect. Usually, images printed by letterpress are made by pressing a raised image (i.e.: type or a polymer plate) down into thick, fluffy paper. The surrounding background, then, is whatever color the paper is. With reverse letterpress, the background is [...]
Archive for the ‘Business Cards & Stationery’ Category
Photographer Gavin Wade’s “Reverse Letterpress” Business Cards
Posted in Branding for Wedding Photographers, Business Cards & Stationery, Uncategorized, tagged 600 gsm Cranes Lettra Paper, Business cards for wedding photographers, Fabulous Letterpress!, Letterpress Business Cards on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Wedding Photographer Susan Stripling: Ultra Less-Is-More Business Cards and Stationery by Studio Z Mendocino
Posted in Branding for Wedding Photographers, Business Cards & Stationery, Business Cards for Photographers, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Business Cards for International Photographers, Letterpress Stationery Wardrobe, Letterpress Thank You Notes, Script Cards, tagged 600 gsm Cranes Lettra Paper, Business cards for wedding photographers, Business Stationery, Couture Business Cards, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Script Cards on May 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Susan Stripling is a wedding photographer whose astonishingly beautiful images, skill, inspired imagination and devotion to the craft have landed her in the midst of some of the most amazing nuptials ever. She just had Studio Z Mendocino do her new business cards and stationery. Susan has photographed weddings throughout the US, the Caribbean, South [...]
Love By Serena: Letterpress Business Cards With Pearl Foil and Tiffany Blue Edge Painting — Baltimore Photographer Meets Studio Z Mendocino!
Posted in Branding for Wedding Photographers, Business Cards & Stationery, Business Cards for Photographers, Business Cards with Edge Painting, Letterpress Printing, tagged 600 gsm Cranes Lettra Paper, Branding, Business cards for wedding photographers, Edge Painting on Business Cards, Fabulous Letterpress!, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Printing on February 24, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I’m hardly even going to say anything about these cards because Serena Severtson made such a complete and articulate blog post about branding as it relates to business cards this morning. I am just going to let that do all the talking: click HERE for her post. These are photos Serena took of the beautiful [...]
Anything-But-Basic Black-on-Black Business Cards for Dallas Photographer, Mike Tseng
Posted in Black Business Cards with Foil Stamping, Business Cards & Stationery, Business Cards for Photographers, tagged Business Cards, Business cards for wedding photographers, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Printing, Silver Foil on Black Business Cards on February 20, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Mike Tseng‘s fabulous new black-on-black business cards take “basic black” to a whole new level. Super-thick black museum mount in a slim rectanglular shape provides the foundation for the black gloss foil-stamped swirling background pattern designed by Flosites, and matte charcoal ink for his name. Though everything is subtle, it is also somehow extravagant and [...]
STUDIO TRAN meets STUDIO Z — WoW! Black, Silver and Hot Pink Business Cards that Cannot Be Ignored
Posted in Black Business Cards with Foil Stamping, Branding for Wedding Photographers, Business Cards & Stationery, Business Cards for Photographers, Business Cards with Edge Painting, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, tagged Black Business Cards, Business Cards, Business Cards for Children's Photographers, Business cards for wedding photographers, Couture Business Cards, Edge Painting on Business Cards, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Cards, Silver Foil on Black Business Cards on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Corine Tran of Studio Tran, in Louisiana, called me before Christmas with a vision and a hope to get some awesome business cards made up for her photography business. After a couple of emails she casually mentioned, “I can’t believe you’re in Fort Bragg.” Mystified, I asked her why that was amazing to her — [...]
Torch Jazz and My Baby’s Love Letters Exhibit and Moving and Graphic Design and Letterpress Printing and New Real Estate Magazine and Me
Posted in Baby Gift, Bed & Breakfast Branding, Branding for Wedding Photographers, Business Cards & Stationery, Christmas Gift, Logo Design, Mendocino County Real Estate, my baby's love letters, Newlywed Gift, Real Estate Magazine, Wedding Client Gift, tagged Business Cards, Business Cards for Children's Photographers, Business cards for wedding photographers, Couture Business Cards, Fabulous Letterpress!, Graphic Design, Logo Design, Wedding Invitations on October 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Sheesh. Am I a dilettante or just diverse? So, today’s post is about many topics and me me me, I guess. But I have all these things going on right now that are so exciting and fun that I want to tell you about, and, after all, this is MY blog, right? First: My beautiful, [...]
Fabulous and Chic Letterpress Business Cards for Meier Ferrer, LA Furniture Designers
Posted in Buckslip, Business Cards & Stationery, Graphic Design, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Identity Campaigns, Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Printing for Graphic Designers, Letterpress Thank You Notes, Script Cards, tagged 600 gsm Cranes Lettra Paper, Business Cards, Business Stationery, Couture Business Cards, Fabulous Letterpress!, letterpress, Letterpress Business Cards on September 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Meier/Ferrer designs contemporary, modernist furniture that has been featured in a slew of national and international magazines. Their look is clean, hip and ultra-chic, which matches perfectly the design Andrew Cinnamon did for their business cards, and which Studio Z Mendocino printed on our venerable 1952 Heidelberg letterpress. It’s that meeting of the centuries that [...]
When the timing doesn’t allow for letterpress but you still want a showstopping business card and branding to tide you over…
Posted in Business Cards & Stationery, Graphic Design, Letterpress Business Cards for International Photographers, Logo Design, tagged Branding, Business cards for wedding photographers, Graphic Design, Identity Programs, Letterpress Printing for International Clients, Logo Design on September 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Recently I was contacted by a photographer from the Velvet Strand, in IRELAND [I love the modern world]. David McNeill is a wonderful photographer who wanted a new look, new brand, new, new everything that would actually reflect the kind of work he is doing now. He had a DIY logo that was very outdated [...]
TRIBE! Seth Sirbaugh’s Incredible Charcoal-Gray-&-Orange “Sandwiched” Letterpress Business Cards
Posted in Black Business Cards with Foil Stamping, Business Cards & Stationery, Business Cards with Edge Painting, Couture Letterpress Invitations, Graphic Design, Graphic Designers and Letterpress Printing, Identity Campaigns, Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Printing for Graphic Designers, Logo Design, Uncategorized, tagged 600 gsm Cranes Lettra Paper, Black Business Cards, Business Cards, Couture Business Cards, Edge Painting on Business Cards, Fabulous Letterpress!, Graphic Design, Identity Programs, Letterpress Business Cards, Letterpress Cards, Letterpress Printing, Logo Design on September 7, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Seth Sirbaugh is a terrifically talented graphic designer whose new letterpress business cards carry the message of the new “tribe” brand he’s developed, in the most stylish way imaginable. We did two versions, which you see pictured above. The first was the more complicated. We used French’s Gray Durotone 80# cover, a mottled, slightly gnarly-in-a-chic-kind-of-way [...]
