A black and white design accented with red edge coloring.

These letterpress invitations were for the Martin & Jorg Annual Christmas Party in Norway. We stumbled across them in our sample room and had forgot how nice the bright red edge was. The invites were printed on handmade cotton paper that was about 620gsm using neutral black ink. The line on the invite was left so that each piece could be filled in with the recipients name, a personal touch. After printing, each invite was edge colored in a bright red.

If you like letterpress and edge coloring then you’ll be a fan of these card we printed for Nurture Athletics, founded by Jennifer Landis. Jennifer worked with Cainkade, a creative agency based in NYC. The cards are well rounded using just about every trick from offset printing, to foil stamping, letterpress, edge coloring and duplexing! Check out all of the photos after the break.

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Ecru white duplexed business cards with yellow edge coloring.

Barry Freeman (portfolio) is a California based photographer whose business cards we’re featuring on the blog today. As a photographer barry wanted to reference what he does in the design in an abstract way. While the original cards were designed on black stock, we worked with him to change the design and make it work on white stock. See more photos after the break.

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Add a pop of color to your card!

If you’re reading this you might be asking yourself, “what’s edge coloring?” It’s a special process we developed several year ago to add color to the edges of cards. Edge coloring has become a very popular finishing technique for business cards, wedding invitations, and social stationery. We we’re busy photographing print work this week and thought it would be the perfect time to highlight the process. More photos of colored edges after the break.

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We photographed some great cards for SightForStyle this morning, which were designed by Craig Leontowicz. We’re not stranger to Craig’s work, he designed cards for Tonic that we printed a while back (Hot Pink Business Cards). You can check out his portfolio on cargo collective here: cargocollective.com/leontowicz. The design for these cards took a different approach, they wanted to mix a modern and antique look

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Nothing is more indulgent than a letterpress coupon. Today we’ve got a project we printed for Network Redux, a web hosting and data service provider based in Portland, OR. These cards were designed by Rhonda Spencer, a designer at freshfruit creative - a creative agency also based in Portland. We spoke to Network Redux before posting these and they said the promo code is still in effect: NetworkRedux2011 – which is good for a $50 service credit. Check out more photos after the break. 

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Tight registration doesn’t begin to explain it.

Today we’ve got letterpress business cards we printed for Marcia Schneider. Marcia worked with designer Jeff Silva to create a card that represented her style and work in an elegant and modern way. Something unique about Marcia was her 36 year relationship and commitment to the San Francisco public library and community before her recent retirement. See more photos of the cards after the break.

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