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Inkster Maken Business Cards
Production Method
Letterpress
Design
The Hungry Workshop
Printing
The Hungry Workshop
Focusing on simplicity, texture and craft, The Hungry Workshop’s Heidelberg pressed business cards and hang tangs for Australian industrial designer Hugh Altschwager’s Inkster Maken exude the feeling of the natural, unprocessed materials Altschwager utilizes in his work.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
Business Card: 3.34 × 2.17 in.
Swing Tag: 1.77 × 1.77 in.
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
Cordenons / Wild / White / 450gsm
Number of Colors
1 colour + blind emboss
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
Custom Logotype
Miso
Project Description
Hugh Altschwager is a maker. A sixth generation farming son from South Australia's Limestone Coast whose upbringing saw him splitting his spare time between the ocean and the workshop. It was in this workshop where he turned the land around him into simple, functional items for his home.It was here that he turned this process of creation into Inkster Maken. Influenced by both the Australian environment and his Nordic heritage, Inkster Maken makes use of under-utilised materials to create, with a timeless Northern European design aesthetic.
When designing the identity we drew on the same inspiration by utilising his farm heritage to create a "cattle brand" monogram device fused with the same Northern European design aesthetic. The simple typography for Inkster Maken was crafted in-house.
Alongside designing the identity we created the stationery for the project in-house, too. Swing tags and business cards were embossed and letterpressed on our Heidelberg Platen. The layering of these techniques reflects the layering of material and influence. The result is as simple, textural and crafted as the Inkster Maken product.
Production Lesson(s)
The biggest production challenge on this job was finding a stock to work with that reflected the textured materials Hugh uses to create his pieces while still maintaining his clean Northern European design aesthetic. Wild turned out to be the perfect solution.
Post Author
Kelly Cree
Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.
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Date Published
June 1, 2014
Filed Under
Business Cards
Letterpress
Tagged with
australia
hang tag
heidelberg
industrial design
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