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Jasmine & Yale Wedding Invitation
Production Method
Letterpress
Design
Three Steps Ahead
Josh Korwin & Alyssa Zukas
Printing
Josh Korwin
(with help from Mike Mische, Alyssa Zukas, Jasmine Baker)
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but two split fountains form a harmonious bond in this fun and colorful wedding invite from Three Steps Ahead.
Client
Jasmine Baker & Yale Quan
Quantity Produced
200
Production Cost
$350
Production Time
2 Weeks
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
5 × 7 × in
Page Count
3
Paper Stock
Neenah / Environment / Birch / 80C
French Paper / Glo-Tone /Yellow Light / 65C
French Paper / Glo-Tone / Blue Light / A-7 envelopes
Number of Colors
3 plates, 5 colors (split fountain)
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
Studio Lettering by House Industries, Knockout by H&FJ, Hellenic Wide(foundry type)
Rustic (foundry type)
Microgramma/Eurostile (foundry type)
anonymous condensed gothic (wood type)
Project Description
Our friends Jasmine & Yale are getting married soon, and we decided to go all-out with our letterpress habit to create their invitations. The design process started on the computer, but the goal from the start was to create something really special, where the computer would only play one part of the tune. For the invitation itself, we decided to create a 5-by-7-inch card with a three color design (3/0), using two plates of computer-generated photopolymer, and one “plate” of actual, historic wood type.Production Lesson(s)
Using two split fountains in one job ended up creating the illusion of way more plates than we really used. It's a heck of a good way to make use of a limited number of plates.
Post Author
Kelly Cree
Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
July 10, 2012
Filed Under
Letterpress
Wedding materials
Tagged with
duplex
split fountain
wood type
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