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Cousins Design Business Cards
Production Method
Letterpress
Design
Cousins Design
Printing
Typoretum
Cousins Design used positive and negative space to give their business cards a sense of depth and texture. This is a good example of the range achievable when designers get creative with one color and letterpress.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
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Page Count
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Paper Stock
540gsm
Number of Colors
Silver ink with red edge painting
Varnishes
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Binding
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Typography
Rockwell
Trade Gothic
Project Description
We wanted to experiment a touch with our latest cards using positive and negative space and the beautiful results attained from letterpress printing. The sunken area of fine dots creates a very tactile card and gives the false impression that the logo and name is embossed on the front. We chose a metallic silver ink to catch the light complimented by the vibrant red edge painting to subtly lift the monotone design.English printers Typoretum were responsible for the printing using Dark Grey 540gsm Colourplan printed PMS 877 silver on both sides and PMS 485 Red Edge painting
Production Lesson(s)
Letterpress is beautiful.
Post Author
Duncan Robertson
Former intern at UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
September 6, 2013
Filed Under
Business Cards
Letterpress
Tagged with
edge painting
monotone
red
silver
texture
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