10 Beautiful Letterpress Business Cards
Like many other creative types out there, I am fascinated with great looking business cards. That is why we recently launched a new site called Card Observer. In the two weeks of being live, Card Observer has received tons of great submissions, of which many have been letterpress printed cards. If you are not familiar with letterpress, it is the process of inking a raised surface and then pressing it into the stock.
Here are 10 of the best ones we’ve seen so far at Card Observer.
Click the pictures to see more details about each card.
Whitney Shaw
Butter Label
Amelia Lyon
Jason McGrew
Kyle Van Horn
Bryon Darby
Blue Bird Design
The Mandate Press
D. James Goodwin
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26 comments
matthew duerksen
February 8, 2009Great examples! I love letterpress, getting my new business cards letterpressed!
Thanks!
Pat Anzanello
February 8, 2009Great!
Nokadota
February 8, 2009I think it’s time for a new business card.
2lip
February 8, 2009brilliant pieces of design! you might want to check out this site, which I stumbled across today. probably lots of material for Cardobserver there as well:
http://www.beastpieces.com/
Jamie Favreau
February 8, 2009Great designs!
Patternhead
February 8, 2009These letterpress business cards look great.
Chikezie Ejiasi
February 9, 2009I love the embossed feel of those. It really adds depth to the card – literally
. Does that cost extra? I’m sure a lot of communication has to happen between the designer & the printer to get something like that.
Logo Design Guru
February 9, 2009these are great. I love the embossed work. You don’t always see that so often anymore and I think it’s nice. Thanks
Missy
February 9, 2009This reminds me of American Psycho, you know the movie in which Bates has bus card envy and goes berserk over the dude who has a “prettier” card than his. LoL.
P.S. Am really digin the blue bird design.
Michael
February 19, 2009@Missy Agreed, the card from Blue Bird Design stands out from the rest.
Sklep Wędkarski
February 21, 2009Jason’s McGrew card is amazing.
Clue Design
February 24, 2009Love the detail of the Mandate Press card – beautiful. A card like this demands attention.
rob
February 24, 2009think i going to design myself some new business cards!!
Jason McGrew
February 28, 2009Thanks for posting up my card on here! The Mandate Press did an outstanding job on them, along with my designer LIz, from Ruk Creative.
Joel Van Dyke
March 11, 2009Wow, some really elegantly tactile cards!
Matt
March 23, 2009Nice, but overdone. Would love to see some stylish minimalist ones that don’t cost a fortune to print.
Rajita- Business card design
March 26, 2009I think Kyle manHorn Business card is really stylish
Chris
March 29, 2009These cards are great! Glad to see that Dolce Press had 2 cards in the list (they printed my business cards as well).
Check their blog out: http://www.dolcepress.com/blog
Kyle Jensen
May 16, 2009How much does a run of 100 letterpressed cards usually cost??
camille
August 12, 2009Very nice collection. I love letterpress work…the richness of texture and the interesting affects are always great to see. The letterpress process really adds an essence of 3D character to a 2D product. Thank you for the wonderful post!
Misty James
October 14, 2009Can you recommend a good company for printing business cards with letterpress? These cards are awesome!
Peter Fraterdeus
October 26, 2009Check out my site at SlowPrint.com
We specialize in letterpress business cards for designers!
Thanks for the cool note!
Cheers
Peter
Ron Arts Web Design
January 26, 2010These cards are amazing! nice collections, thanks for sharing.
H.Aliabadi
April 4, 2010we think it’s time for a new business card
Green Printing
August 10, 2010Letterpress is so cool!
I love how intricate some of these designs are. Awesome examples.
Pixelcards
November 4, 2010Blue bird design looks like its for twitter.. lol..
I like your designs..
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