The letterpress business cards when issued to the customers leave a high-end and a distinctive feel behind. The more the card stands out to the customers. There are numerous graphic designers who could give a special
and a unique look to your business cards.
Simplicity can often work wonders and with letterpress printing, It also makes most designs clean and elegant. If you are looking to have a few printed, here are a range of catchy letterpress designs for inspiration. Oh, and if you have any letterpress business cards you want to share, we’d love to see them, too.Enjoy!
20 Letterpress Business Card Designs for Inspiration
1. Bedroc LetterPress Business Card Design Designed by Perky Bros
“This stationery system for BEDROC is a great example of how a designer can curate a combination of materials to support the overall design aesthetic of their project. The business cards are printed on Neenah Classic Crest Slate 80lb cover custom duplexed to Neenah Classic Crest Recycled Natural White 100lb cover. A subtle tonal letterpress varnish graces both sides of the card with an additional ink for the contact information. A zing of copper metallic on all 4 edges incorporates an element of elegance. Notecards are printed on Neenah Classic Crest Recycled 100 Natural White 80C, custom duplexed to make 160C, share the same ink colors and also show off that metallic edge. The letterhead, on Neenah Classic Crest Recycled Natural White 80lb text, and envelope, on Neenah Classic Crest Antique Gray 24W, round out the system using 2 inks that are common to the rest of the materials.”
2. Joana Casaca Lemos Business Card Design Designed by Joana Casaca Lemos
“Business cards – letterpress on Birkam card 380gsm and laser engraved.”
3. LeGros & Pasternack Wedding Business Card Design Designed by Nack Creative
“Branded wedding with letterpressed save the dates, invites and envelopes.”
4. Pica Studio Business Card Design Designed by Pica Studio
“imple One Color Letterpress printed cards (printed by the wonderful folks at Studio on Fire) branded to match our new website and blog. Clean, simple, modern typography with minimal geometric elements across all our branding, and exemplify our studio’s new creative direction.”
5. Worn Out West Business Card Design Designed by Left, Right & Centre
“Worn Out West are an Australian based retailer of clothing, footwear and saddlery for cowboys and stockmen. Using a combination of letterpress and rubber stamps we created a stationery suite to compliment their new brand identity, also created by Left, Right & Centre.”
6. Burnthebook Business Card Design Designed by Burnthebook
“We’re called Burnthebook. We’re an established creative agency in the UK and we have a background in publishing. So, when we created our new branding and stationery, it made sense to develop ideas surrounding bookbinding and traditional printing techniques.
Our branding is based on traditional publishing marks, whilst the business cards themselves are letterpressed. The coloured edges are reminiscent of the painted edges found on antique books, but we’ve used a bold crimson and white for a contemporary twist.
Burnthebook is a full service creative agency. We work on projects for print and for the web. Our studio is home to designers, web developers and copywriters.”
7. Charlotte Elizabeth Photographer Business Card Design Designed by Stitch
Charlotte of Charlotte Elizabeth Photographer is new photographer on the Charleston scene. She came to Stitch to design her logo and give her a brand that reflected her energetic and out going personality. To capture Charlotte’s whimsy, we hand-drew her logo and established a set of icons to represent the different types of people she photographs – each illustrated through different types of transportation. Weddings (a tandem bike) Kids (a tricycle) Teens (a vespa) and so on. With Charlotte being a lover of downtown and its ease of getting to and from on a bike – it was a perfect fit. We combined letterpress and offset printing to produce her stationery set and made sure to include punches of color and illustration, all reflective of Charlotte’s love for life and photography.”
8. Neil Brown Hospitality Group Business Card Design Designed by CODO Design
“Neal wanted crisp, thick and simple calling cards for his restaurant entrepreneur group. Letterpress ended up being a perfect option and Faulkenberg Printing Co. was able to print 2000 cards on the beefy 220# Lettra stock for an extremely low price.
We initially wanted to run these as a blind impression (no ink) but the type at the bottom of the card was too small and the stock too thick to allow it. We ended up having to add just a touch of Pantone Cool Gray 2 U and they came out great!”
9. Joseph Parra Business Card Design Designed by Joseph Parra
Tag inspired letterpress business cards for Baltimore, Maryland based artist Joseph Parra.
10. Still Liquor Business Card Design Designed by Javas Lehn
Business cards designed for Still Liquor, a bar located in Seattle, WA. The cards were letterpress printed on 180# Eska board stock by Evolution Press.
11. DARE Vancouver Business Card Design Designed by DARE Vancouver
“In Vancouver, DARE is a merger of a traditional agency and digital shop, so we wanted business cards that also combine old with new.
We created an online tool where employees could upload a picture of themselves, and enter their email, phone numbers and other contact info. An ASCII image of the employee was automatically created using only characters from their own contact information.
We then printed their personalized card designs on a letterpress printer, to further emphasis the idea of traditional processes meeting digital techniques.”
12. COLAB Business Card Design Designed by Studio Mercury
“COLAB, a new multi-disciplinary center at Syracuse University, is a collaborative environment for students from all disciplines. Everything from its eclectic space to its experimental presentation style inspires a new direction in higher education.
We created a modular, vintage scientific look using letterpress and hand stamping on all the collateral pieces. From the string-tied envelopes to the paper rescued from the recycle bin, we used every possible way to extend the pedagogy of COLAB.”
13. Villainy and Associates Business Card Design Designed by Villainy and Associates
“We printed letterpress metallic gold for the information and letterpress varnish on the logotype. We like using a varnish on dark stocks for a tone on tone effect. That gives a slightly better legibility than a totally blind, inkless impression. The stock is a thick 200lb Wausau Eclipse Black with metallic gold edge coloring.”
14. Playful Business Card Design Designed by Pablo Alfieri
- - 2 papers. 350gsm black paper and 350gsm matte illustration white paper.
- - 1 letterpress.
- - 9 foil stampings. Matte and brilliant gold, matte and brilliant silver, iridescent silver, black, red, violet, and blue
15. Brue Wedding Invitation Business Card Design Designed by Nick Brue
A great example of letterpress for these clean and simple wedding invitations.
16. V Communications Business Card Design Designed by V Communications
“The inspiration comes from an old identification card we’ve seen on the web. Actually it is Lee Harvey Oswald’s Forged Selective Service Card. We don’t know how and when we bumped on it, but we all liked the old feeling it brought and how the information was displayed. We improvised a shooting session in which we had vintage clothes from different eras. We decided to do a two colors letterpress print on cardboard and we all loved the result. The final touch on the cards comes from an old die cast iron stamp we bought and personalized to our needs.
Its important to mention on which side of the chipboard you want your card printed or you might have have a big curve in them.”
17. Tactic Marketing Business Card Design Designed by Tactic Marketing
“We set out looking for something substantial and unique. We loved the idea of letterpress on the heavyweight Crane, and we stuck with a single color to offset some of the cost. From the start, we were attached to the idea of everyone having their own unique ‘back,’ and we played around with several different options before arriving at the headshots. The loose halftones worked well—corresponding with the one color theme, and creating a nice texture. And due to the coarse dot pattern, the headshots are somewhat dynamic in their appearance – up close they appear as an abstract pattern, and at a distance they read as a crisp headshot.
Working within the restrictions of letterpress really inspired us to look at things differently, and we couldn’t be happier with the end results.”
18. A Hundred Monkeys Business Card Design Designed by Croxton Design
Croxton Design was commissioned to design business cards for A Hundred Monkeys, a naming and branding firm based in Mill Valley, California. The cards were letterpressed, die cut, perforated and crash numbered.”
19. Bludot Business Card Design Designed by Steven Jockisch
“Bludot is a furniture design and manufacturing company founded by John Christakos, Charles Lazor and Maurice Blanks. Their goal is to “bring good design to as many people as possible” by creating desirable, useful and affordable products.
The main focus of this stationery system is the powder-coated steel business cards in four colors. Many of their products make use of this material, so we felt the stationery should incorporate this aesthetic. The paper pieces are produced with both offset and letterpress printing by Studio on Fire.”
20. F5 Photography Business Card Design Designed by Ross Clodfelter
“Letterpress business card and screenprinted 9×12 mailer design for F5 Photography. The logo and letterpressed business cards appeared on Communication Arts Exhibit, Feb 2010.”
