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
IQ Videography
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Feb 8, 2009
Great examples! I love letterpress, getting my new business cards letterpressed!
Thanks!
Feb 8, 2009
Great!
Feb 8, 2009
I think it’s time for a new business card.
Feb 8, 2009
brilliant 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/
Feb 8, 2009
Great designs!
Feb 8, 2009
These letterpress business cards look great.
Feb 9, 2009
I 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.
Feb 9, 2009
these are great. I love the embossed work. You don’t always see that so often anymore and I think it’s nice. Thanks
Feb 9, 2009
This 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.
Feb 19, 2009
@Missy Agreed, the card from Blue Bird Design stands out from the rest.
Feb 21, 2009
Jason’s McGrew card is amazing.
Feb 24, 2009
Love the detail of the Mandate Press card – beautiful. A card like this demands attention.
Feb 24, 2009
think i going to design myself some new business cards!!
Feb 28, 2009
Thanks for posting up my card on here! The Mandate Press did an outstanding job on them, along with my designer LIz, from Ruk Creative.
Mar 11, 2009
Wow, some really elegantly tactile cards!
Mar 23, 2009
Nice, but overdone. Would love to see some stylish minimalist ones that don’t cost a fortune to print.
Mar 26, 2009
I think Kyle manHorn Business card is really stylish
Mar 29, 2009
These 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
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May 16, 2009
How much does a run of 100 letterpressed cards usually cost??
Aug 12, 2009
Very 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!
Oct 14, 2009
Can you recommend a good company for printing business cards with letterpress? These cards are awesome!
Oct 26, 2009
Check out my site at SlowPrint.com
We specialize in letterpress business cards for designers!
Thanks for the cool note!
Cheers
Peter
Jan 26, 2010
These cards are amazing! nice collections, thanks for sharing.