Letterpress design

Have you ever picked up a printed work and taken a minute to admire the feel of it? You hold the paper and get a feel for the thickness and texture while noting the impressions of each letter? That is the beauty of letterpress. This style of printing presses the image into the paper in [&h...

Typographic letterpress invitations for Heu Yee & Tom. Knockouts, overprinting and assymmetry = one fun and evocative invite.

How to Make Affordable DIY Letterpress Wedding Invitations: I think the simplicity of letterpress is beautiful. I am in love with the debossed effect, the solid colours and all the endless variations caused by handcrafting each piece. Letterpress is all very enchanting, which is why I wanted letterpress wedd…

Pat Farley of Farley Designs shares some at-home L Letterpress printing tips and techniques. Check out these L Letterpress tips to improve your printing!

Neenah Paper For the newly released Edition 13, otherwise known as “The Beauty of Letterpress: The Art of Making an Impression,” designer Earl Gee, partner and creative director of Gee + Chung Design, pays homage to the centuries-old letterpress process – with a modern twist and a Russian Constructivist aesthetic. As with all prints designed and produced for The Beauty […]

Letterpress typeset namecard version 7

Digital methods are reinventing Gutenberg's signature letterpress as the darling of the DIY world.

This is a poster I did for an event at Red Square Agency featuring letter press revivalist Amos Kennedy. Scanned wood block textures and wood type were used for the elements. If you don't know who Amos Kennedy is, check out his work at kennedyprints.com.