One of the most important things that you need to have at the National Stationery Show is definitely your business cards. I had the design, but hadn’t printed the actual business cards since it’s launched in January 11th so this is really exciting to have them in my hands!
I used Lettra 220lb. (oh, how I love this paper), double-sided in square format :)
The backside is with all the information.
Can’t wait to hand them out!
This is my day 1.
The Printing Room:
They have drawers and drawers of metal types. After learning about the platen press, how to oil them etc. we set the metal types for a small business card size project.
I picked Spartan Black…
Pick up letters one by one… (the California Job Case sheet always comes in handy.)
“HELLO” letters all set!
and locking up in the chase…
On the 1st day, we learned how to operate the table top press — this is Chandler & Price.
Learned how to set the gauge pins…
adjust impressions and such…
and print!
The tabletop presses are so small so it’s perfect to print small things such as business cards. You won’t get the strong impression like Vandercook gives, but it prints great!
To be continued to day 2…
and then, I was looking around the lovely Louise Fili Ltd website (I admire her work soo much!) and here it is! The Porter House design! It was done by Louise Fili. No wonder it looks awesome.
I’d love to get my hands on restaurant designs — anyone opening a new restaurant?! :)
*Picture is from my last day of letterpress printing — I printed business cards for Randy :)
p.s while I am traveling, I am having a winter vacation sale so make sure to check it out :)
I brought a few printouts of the business card so I can use it as a template. I’m doing 2 colors here so I’m going to start with the red.
Put double-sided tape on the polymer plate and…
place it on top of the printout to match exactly where it is.
Take the printout with the plate and run the press….
and the plate sticks exactly where you want to print! I love this trick!!
Printed on bunch of yes, chipboard. Run it twice top and bottom so I can have 8 cards on one sheet in 8.5×11.
OK, the second color, black next. Using double-sided tape, place the plate on the printout exactly where it should be.
and run the press to place the plate.
and print on the first sheet… here it is! I printed about 320 cards!
I trimmed them and here are the final result. I have 3 versions… I couldn’t decide which ones yet… but I love them so much β the impression is again so wonderful.
What do you think?!
Back side is simple:
The selection in the store is so great, you don’t have to dig through everything to find the one, it’s all there! Price wasn’t too high, either, you would think it would be expensive, but it wasn’t.
Bowling pins! I like the wired basket, too.
I like these antique boxes, especially the typefaces:
Their business card — everything in the store was labeled with this same tag. I think it’s cool idea, it fits the store and it’s unique and memorable.
This looks spectacular! I have to catch it on TV today for sure.
Anyway, besides the Olympic starting, my Friday morning inspiration comes from these unique business cards:
These are so great! You can see more here, here and here.
I also got to design a business card and a thank you card and here are the final products:
Thank You Cards:
Today’s Candy SF:
yay!
