While I can enjoy the finely crafted, precise, and technologically awesome card, I have just as much love for low-tech printing. Here, the folks at Sassen Design created a rubber stamp to create their cards. Each one is slightly different, each one has a bit of the hand-crafted touch. via FPO »
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click for a larger view » Continuing in the theme of gorgeous letterpressed cards for photographers, I present you with the card for John Waire. Designed and letterpress printing by Dolce Press, this card features three colours pressed onto 600gsm cotton (tree-free) paper. The contact information was printed as a repeating pattern using transparent white [...]
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I’m a big fan of letterpress, and stickers, and hand-made elements like stitching. And this card for Toronto-based Photographer John Edgar has all three. Printed on 180lb Strathmore stock, with a subtle letterpress. A printed sticker is then wrapped around, and finally, stitching in added. Designed and built by Simon Cooper of Envyco.ca
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A navy blue felt card with gold foil stamping could be appropriate for some sorts of businesses, but I don’t think anything so lusty is warranted for a restaurant. Bad type and layout make it unwarranted for pretty much anything, though. Close-up of the craziness.
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More letterpressed cards, this time for soon-to-launch t-shirt company Shizknitted. The shirt is printed blind, with the remainder of the artwork in black. Close-up of the t-shirt, which is very subtle. Printing by Studio on Fire, design by Prescott Perez-Fox.
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AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo. No denying that this card is in a category by itself. The clever use of Augmented Reality in everyday applications, like business cards, it only going to grow in the near future. I, for one, welcome our new electronic disembodied overlords. via Josh Spear » PS. if [...]
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Ornate and elegant design for NYC make-up artist Boryslawa “Blanka” Mazurczak. Card features black ink and blind letterpress. Typeface is [good old] Mrs. Eaves. Detail, which, attempts to show the “B” pattern imprinted on the card. Printing by Studio on Fire, design by Prescott Perez-Fox.
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I’m glad that I wasn’t around for this apparent trend in card design. This mind-bending experience of a card appears to be some kind of metallic ink varnish laid on in a haphazard pattern to resemble that brushed metal finish that some metalworkers like to do. I really don’t know how to describe it. Naturally, [...]
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Understated type and cryptic semiotics are used to represent Melanie. Letterpress printing by Studio on Fire, designed by Prescott Perez-Fox (which is me, the author). Close-up of the “snowflake.”
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Jordan T. Farkas is, apparently, an Art Director. Don’t tell anyone, but he’s also Batman.
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I haven’t quite had the pleasure of this happening to me (yet), but it certainly would be a cheeky workaround to not returning my calls, or acting like you’re super busy. And anyone handing this out, presumably women, would have to have quite a bit of hutzpah to break a man’s spirit so casually. At [...]
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Motion Graphics Designers are typically really bad at print design. I’m generalising, of course, but I’ve seen some pretty terrible cards from video folks. But when Michael Blank made use of his friend Jose Antonio Contreras, the result is something clever. How to create motion using a static medium like print? Well, like this, for [...]
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