“Daisy asked us to develop a new identity for her budding floral design business. We then applied the brand to custom die-cut letterpress business cards and a responsive e-commerce website.”
Designed by Hammerpress
”At Fieldwork, we make sure to keep a good balance between client work and in-house projects. We needed a visual identity flexible enough to work across anything from project proposals and invoices, through fun prints and publications, all the way to super geeky stuff like code projects and gadgets.
”After establishing some guiding principals about how we want to work, who we’d most like to work with, and what we want to work on, we wrote a short and simple manifesto for Fieldwork, and collected some visual inspiration based around those ideas.
”Through a process of iteration, we developed the simple identity you see on this page and across the website. Then we worked on a collection of visual materials to bring the character of our company to life. It’s a work-in-progress, and always will be.”
Designed by Fieldwork
Business cards created for Alex Pankratov, the cards are engraved in white ink on Plike, laminated back to back to Fibermark Touche and then die cut with 1 mm corner radius.
Plike is a ”plastic like” paper, Touche is a suede like stock. These combined with the texture of the engraved ink produce cards that are incredible to touch aside from just being great to look at.
PlaidLab cards use some great vibrant colors and the overprinting inks make rich and saturated secondary colors.
The printing for these cards was done by Studio On Fire. – ”They use some great vibrant colors and the overprinting inks make rich and saturated secondary colors.
We letterpress printed them on heavy 220lb Cover Crane Lettra Pearl White. We usually run smaller custom business card orders two cards up on a small press sheet, so it was easy to provide some variety by including two different patterns. The magenta color is the same on both cards, but a color change from orange to blue on one plate gave the cards even more variety. One thing we did to keep the quality of the type crisp and punchy was to print it as a separate pass. By printing the same color in two passes we could run the large graphic plaid with heavy ink density and light ink density on the type. Mark was shooting for something about the size of an iphone, so the final cards were round corner die cut to an over sized 4.5 x 2.25. See comparison pic alongside a standard 3.5 x 2 inch business card for scale.”
Printed Proof is a designer, web developer, marketer, these are his die-cut business cards.
All Wellness business cards feature custom offset pantone deboss and emboss, these cards have a custom die cut shape.
Running Doves Press business card is printed 6 colors on Crane’s Lettra 220LB Fluorescent White paper, the overall die-cut by Prestige Graphics.
Studio On Fire custom duplexed the card from two colors. The black side is Skin Black 141lb Cover. That is pasted to Skin White 141lb Cover for a total thickness of 280lb Cover.
Production went something like this… The black stock is hot foil stamped in a clear gloss foil and a mirror finish metallic silver. The white stock is letterpress printed in metallic silver ink. Then the black and white sheets are pasted together in register into a heavy duplex sheet. Those sheets are covered with a protective mask on both sides. The masked sheets are laser cut into the custom shaped business cards and the protective mask is removed.
Every month Card Nerd holds a Business Card Of The Month award. This months award goes to: Ryan Hicks.
This JobSparx business card is a ”Custom Shaped Business Card”. It was printed and designed by Taste of Ink Design & Print Studios. The die cut business card contains a custom shaped die that was used to create the unique shape of the star. The business card contains silver foiled stars stamped on the card.