Here’s a snippet of a sweet invitation we recently designed + letterpress printed for a little boy named Kyan in Singapore. They were for his 100th day celebration.
Letterpress printing is very different than offset printing. What works in the offset world does not always work in the letterpress world, and you have to design accordingly. For instance, printing a large solid color can have splotchy results due to the nature of letterpress printing.
For Kyan’s invitations, we created a tight cross-hatched blue pattern to give an interesting illusion of a solid background color. I really love the results.
I like the cross-hatch even better than a solid color! It looks great!
[...] print these invitations. Although the ink color is different, we used the same design for his brother’s 100th day celebration invitations back in 2011. I love that they are a matching set. Perfect for framing together. This entry was [...]