Letterpress printed business cards and tags

We were lucky enough to work with a client that owns a small company in New Zealand to create a logo, business card and hang tag for their lovely handmade goods. Both cards were letterpress printed on 220# Crane's Lettra and our client was kind enough to email us photos of them "in the wild". We printed the cards and tags using a very very light tint of gray, we love love blind (no ink) printing, but since the info needed to be easily legible we went with a slight tint to the ink. We also designed a separate rubber stamp so she could use her secondary logo to stamp the fabric bands around her hand made scarves and bags made from recycled cashmere leather and canvas. (last image) All pieces were designed and printed by Paper Monkey Press.

light grey letterpress business card

letterpress printed tag and business card

letterpress printed tag

logo design for Manon including rubber stamp secondary logo

Have your initials custom letterpress printed onto coasters!

I am pretty excited about this new shop offering, I was going to wait until this morning, but couldn't resist tweeting about it yesterday- but here is the official announcement! I ordered some custom 3.5" round coasters in a thinner 40pt. weight to use for another project (usually we use the larger standard 4" size, 60pt. thickness like standard bar coasters)- and since I had more than a few left over I started playing around with other ideas we could use them for - and how cute is this?!? Our Antique wood type fits perfectly on this size and I love the lighter more sophisticated weight and somewhat rustic / fun look of these. So so many reasons to order these cute coasters! Perfect for wedding receptions, cocktail parties,  birthday parties, house warming gift, an anniversary party... the list could just go on and on, right? We have a ton of this particular wood type, so as long as it's just 3 letters, we can print it for you! You can find the listing in our etsy shop here. Currently our listing is for quantities of 100, but we can do more or less- just let me know and I can get you a custom quote and listing.

Logo portfolio updated

We have updated our logo portfolio on our website- you can see some of our newest logo projects here!

Pepe Studio Inc. Logo Design

I thought I would try something different and show you the process we go though with a client in developing a new logo. Our client Pepe Studio Inc. (an amazing interior design company in Manhattan Beach, California), needed to update their existing logo. I started by talking and emailing back and forth to get a good idea of the client's aesthetic, color preference, and some key words that the final logo should convey. Then I do lots of sketches, image research, doodling and finally refine those ideas down to 6-8 initial versions to show to the client. It ends up looking something like this for the first round.

Sometimes there are many rounds, but with this logo there were just a few small tweaks, and we have the final version!

Next we took this logo and applied it to a full business collateral suite. The only thing not shown is some signage we did for the storefront...

Once this is approved, we price out printing options, adjust the design accordingly, and last but not least, get some printing done!  We had the associate business cards and address labels flat printed printed as it is way more cost effective, and the client decided to go with the rubberstamp for the return address for now, but that is pretty much it....from design concept to actual printed pieces. Fun, right? We have three different pricing options (hourly, logo and business card design, or logo and full collateral design), if you are interested, just give us a call or email!

Oliver and Adelaide Note Cards, Tags and Business Cards

We finished this sophisticated and elegant project a few weeks ago, isn't it lovely? The hang tags are tiny but perfect and all the pieces are edge colored in a metallic gold that just screams luxury. If you haven't heard of Oliver and Adelaide, you should go take a quick peak, they put together and deliver very special personalized and hand-made gifts for parents and their children in the greater Manhattan area. Photographing metallic gold ink turned out to be pretty tricky- in person they look even better!

Square Business Cards

These 2.75" x 2.75" business cards were designed to have a vintage and gothic feel, Cecelia is a very talented artist and it was fun to work with her to come up with these unusual and striking cards.Printed on 300 gram Fluorescent White Crane's Lettra.

Square Business Cards

These 2.75" x 2.75" business cards were designed to have a vintage and gothic feel, Cecelia is a very talented artist and it was fun to work with her to come up with these unusual and striking cards.Printed on 300 gram Fluorescent White Crane's Lettra.

Edge coloring on business cards

You've seen edge coloring, it is definitely on trend and why not? It's a fun way to add a pop of color, and it makes your card extra extra special. These beauties were client designed (we love love love to print your designs, don't think we only print what we have a hand in designing!). These cards were printed on the super thick 220# Crane's Lettra with Pantone Matched edge coloring. Pretty nice, and not a card you would soon forget.

Edge coloring on business cards

You've seen edge coloring, it is definitely on trend and why not? It's a fun way to add a pop of color, and it makes your card extra extra special. These beauties were client designed (we love love love to print your designs, don't think we only print what we have a hand in designing!). These cards were printed on the super thick 220# Crane's Lettra with Pantone Matched edge coloring. Pretty nice, and not a card you would soon forget.

Apothecary inspired business card

Hi, Today I thought I'd show you one of the more labor intensive and unusual business cards we've designed lately. I worked closely with Nick in designing these business cards  (he is not only an amazing tattoo artist, but also a really fantastic fine artist, check out his website nickchaboya.com to see some examples of his work). He was inspired by old apothecary labels, old medical illustrations and wanted an aged card that had a sense of history. We used a double thick cotton rag paper (Lettra Ecru in 600 gram), and hand tea stained each sheet, (both sides) to make each card a unique little piece of art. Then the card was printed with 2 colors on the back and a split run of 2 colors on the front (half were printed in a dark brown, half in a bronze metallic.). The last photo is the card on press.

Apothecary inspired business card

Hi, Today I thought I'd show you one of the more labor intensive and unusual business cards we've designed lately. I worked closely with Nick in designing these business cards  (he is not only an amazing tattoo artist, but also a really fantastic fine artist, check out his website nickchaboya.com to see some examples of his work). He was inspired by old apothecary labels, old medical illustrations and wanted an aged card that had a sense of history. We used a double thick cotton rag paper (Lettra Ecru in 600 gram), and hand tea stained each sheet, (both sides) to make each card a unique little piece of art. Then the card was printed with 2 colors on the back and a split run of 2 colors on the front (half were printed in a dark brown, half in a bronze metallic.). The last photo is the card on press.