We were as excited to print this collateral for Swiss CosmoLabs latest venture, Renouve, as much as we wanted to try it out. It’s the worlds first anti-aging hand sanitizing lotion! We’ve tried it and its awesome, but not as cool as the print work we did for them. The collateral included letterhead, envelopes, mailing labels, business cards, and promo postcards. We used a mix of 1-color offset and foil stamping on all of the pieces, and added a full color photo on the back of the promo cards. To add an extra pop we also edge colored the cards to match the same offset ink.

Letterpress and foil stamping create a stunning effect.

Today we’ve got a letterpress and foil suite we recently produced for Mario Brathwaite of Brathw8 Studios. We’ve worked with Mario before on a custom set of letterpress business cards, but when he updated his branding he wanted to create new business cards and notecards to match. We love foil stamping as much as letterpress because of the unique look it produces – it can create truly shiny metallics and allows light colors to be printed on dark stocks.

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Using offset + letterpress for your business cards.

Today’s post is a quick update on some offset business cards that we printed for Stepanie of Stephanie Salo Photography, a Sacramento, CA based photographer. She worked with Brand Envy, a Seattle based design firm to develop the logo and layout for the business card. For this project we mixed offset printing with letterpress. The front and back of the cards were offset printed on Mowhawk Cougar 130lb and then duplexed together to create a 260lb stock.

Offset printing is much more capable of laying down even solids of ink than letterpress is. To add some texture to the design, a floral pattern was blind pressed onto the front of the cards which were then die cut with rounded corners. The photo above was taken by Stephanie Salo for her blog series I want to be a Food Photographer (part two).

For more information on using offset printing for your next project, email us at contact@dolcepress.com.

Yesterday we were happy to announce the start of our Type Card design contest (For more info: Submit your design. Get it printed FREE.) and today we’re back to business business cards as usual. Robert DeLeon is a graphic designer and illustrator based in California. His business cards were letterpress printed on 600gsm Lettra in two colors: Red / Gray. The clean design works really well with letterpress and helps to highlight the impression and the texture of the paper.

Today we’ve got business cards for Universal Diamonds, a jewelry and diamond dealer located in Atlanta, GA. The owners worked with Kelly May, a local graphic designer, on refreshing their branding and designing a new card that was both high-end and classic. The original logo was purple with a gradient, which doesn’t work well with letterpress. Instead they focused on more traditional colors like black, white, gray, and silver. Check out all of the photos after the break. 

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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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