Letterpress cards: design, typesetting & printing
![](https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/max_1200/d6b2a025815623.5634dd167a79d.jpg)
Letterpress Christmas card designs in three colour-ways and a set of four letterpress gift tags. The design was created using type-metal borders cast on a Ludlow casting machine, alongside hand-set metal type: 30pt Bembo caps (16pt Bembo for the gift tags). This was then printed on a Vicobold platen printing press.
An illustration of the press was drawn and converted into a metal printing plate for the reverse of the cards. This is accompanied by 8pt Granby type. This combo is also used to complete the gift tag packaging.
Cards: Cotman watercolour paper (rough texture), 350 gsm, 150 x 150 mm
Gift tags: Olin Natural White paperstock, 400 gsm, 70 x 70 mm
Gift tags: Olin Natural White paperstock, 400 gsm, 70 x 70 mm
![](https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/max_1200/887cc725815623.5634ba0d52563.jpg)
![](https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/max_1200/a2e56425815623.5634ba3117138.jpg)
![](https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/max_1200/08d61b25815623.5634db5d9d4a3.jpg)
![](https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/max_1200/3608a025815623.5634ba311e8a6.jpg)
![](https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/max_1200/c9a5c825815623.5634dc0d4f5e5.jpg)
![](https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/max_1200/375c6d25815623.5634ba388ab5f.jpg)
![](https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/max_1200/19884425815623.5634ba3111f8f.jpg)
![](https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/max_1200/bcb86d25815623.5634dc0d5339d.jpg)
![](https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/max_1200/28a64b25815623.5634dcc8bafa5.jpg)
![](https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/max_1200/cc631325815623.5634dba177ad4.jpg)
![](https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/max_1200/60949725815623.5634dcc8d2681.jpg)
More projects:
Hausmate Brochure: design and illustration
St Bride Foundation Flyer: letterpress & linocut
Vicobold Print: letterpress, illustration & printmaking
On Sublimity and Synaesthesia: book design
Ravenscourt Builders: logo and identity
Baby Baby: book cover design and illustration
Passmore Edwards Portrait: linocut illustration
Lord Nuffield, A Philanthropic Legacy: book design
Al Shafie Miles Website: responsive web design
Linocut Christmas Cards: illustration & design