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The McQuades Business Cards
Production Method
Emboss
Foil stamp
Design
The McQuades
Designers: Mike and Nicole McQuade
Printing
Rohner Letterpress
Printing white on black is no small feat when it comes to business cards, but Philadelphia-based design duo The McQuades found white foil on museum board to be a perfect solution.
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Typography
TStar
Sentinel
Project Description
When designing our personal business cards, we wanted them to be simple and straightforward. Since we create brands for a range of clients we wanted our own identity to be almost absent of brand which is why we stuck with a simple black card with minimal typography. The printer suggested printing on museum board which worked perfectly and even makes sense conceptually as it hints to the comping and presentation side of a designer's life.Production Lesson(s)
We learned the benefits of printing white foil stamp on black presentation board vs traditional black milled paper. The white foil stamp doesn't rub off at all on the black presentation board as it sometimes does with regular black paper. This is something we've never thought of so it's great to keep in mind for future projects.
Post Author
Jessica Mullen
Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
July 15, 2015
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Business Cards
Emboss
Foil stamp
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business card
foil stamp
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blogs we publish
Brand New / Displaying opinions and focusing solely on corporate and brand identity work.
Art of the Menu / Cataloguing the underrated creativity of menus from around the world.
Quipsologies / Chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
products we sell
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Brand New Conference videos / Individual, downloadable videos of every presentation since 2010.
Prints / A variety of posters, the majority from our AIforGA series.
Other / Various one-off products.
events we organize
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Brand Nieuwe Conference / Ditto but in Amsterdam.
Austin Initiative for Graphic Awesomeness / A speaker series in Austin, TX, featuring some of the graphic design industry's most awesome people.
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Projects we've Concluded / Long- and short-lived efforts.
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