The Works

One cool trailer… so many possibilities…

Vintage Pressworks — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:06:45 +0000

The Vintage Airstream Campaign, lenlee represents 2010 self promotion

This is a cool and quirky piece that Foils & Dies is super excited to have been a part of. lenlee is a photographer rep who took her love for the iconic silver airstream trailers and tasked each of the photographers to shoot their own vintage airstream story. Ian Nordeck worked with lenlee and her group to bring each of their unique interpretations together into a cohesive campaign and brought it all to us.

We letterpressed the wrap and information card with 2 colors on a natural white stock with a super heavy bite to get a nice rich impression. The wrap is die cut to fold around and contain the four sets of postcards and the air freshener. lenlee’s contact card was then diecut in the back of the wrap.

Wendi Nordeck, one of the photographers of the campaign, has taken some phenomenal photos of the finished promotion.

Ian was our cohort in creation and on press with us for the entire process. He took some great photos of all the small details and the job as it was on press.

These photographers are phenomenal and the work they’ve done for the vintage airstream campaign is definitely something you’ll want to check out – just click on their names below
rhea anna | james quantz jr. | wendi nordeck | darryl bernstein

lenlee also posted this great video of the kit being opened on her blog. Keep up to date with everything her and her photographers are up to by checking it out.

lenlee represents 2010 self promo from lenlee jenckes on Vimeo.

Something blue…

Vintage Pressworks — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:16:07 +0000

This wedding invitation package is a wonderful example of the detail that can be achieved with letterpress. This set was printed in 2 colors on Crane Lettra. The invitation design has a very art deco flair, perfect for the couple, as they got married at the Denver Botanic Gardens. It was a perfect set for capturing details, as in the complex pattern in the wings of the dragonfly and the fine lines of the flourishes.

Birds of a feather…

Vintage Pressworks — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:00:18 +0000

This is a wedding package we printed for Laura and John. They wanted to keep it simple with a rustic flair. This was a second marriage for the both of them and they wanted to symbolize their five children by putting five chicks in the nest on their invitation. We letterpressed the invitation and response card on thick 100% cotton letterpress paper in chocolate brown to get a nice bite, foil stamped their return address on red envelopes, and letterpressed their logo on bags which held everything inside the outer envelopes.

Lovin’ between the sheets…

Vintage Pressworks — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:00:32 +0000

Recently our good friend Brian Allen came by to show us a little about impression printing. We pulled together some of our local letterpress friends for a day of experimenting with paper layers, linoleum cuts, string and tape on our Vandercook press. All said and done it was a great day for print making!

The road less traveled.

Vintage Pressworks — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:09:46 +0000

Like Mr. Frost says… “and that has made all the difference,” and oh it has. Designed by and for 3 Roads Media these cards, printed on Mohawk Renewal Cover, are double sided 3 color letterpress wonders. The pattern wraps around the front and the back to create continual interest and kinetic movement. Each card is a unique piece of art as the mottled pattern of the ink changes with every swipe of the roller over the die. We also custom die cut these cards with three-rounded corners, leaving one unscathed, to echo the geometric pattern of the print. A really great piece to have run and experimented with good ol’ ink on paper.

We kiss and tell…

Vintage Pressworks — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:00:47 +0000

Here at Foils & Dies we can’t help ourselves, we love to kiss and tell. This is our own Pucker Up promotion. Each set of lips indicates a different level of impression for letterpress printing. We’ve found this is the perfect way to communicate letterpress when we can’t see a client in person. We printed the most recent run on a variety of shades from French Paper’s Pop Tone, on chip board, and Mohawk Renewal, using three press runs of white, black and red.

It was most recently featured by the wonderful people at Paper Specs on their blog. You can visit them here to request your own copy and read the article.

As always, XOXO

Foils & Dies

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”

Vintage Pressworks — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:29:43 +0000

Artist, William Matthews, contacted us to create this invitation for the opening of his gallery show “Simplicity.” In keeping with the tone and feel of his work, this invitation was printed on chipboard using letterpress and foil stamping in earth tones and capped off with a tip-on detail of one of his pieces. We made custom envelopes from a complimentary GMUND stock to fit the invitation’s unique size and letterpressed the gallery’s address on the back flap.

They don’t teach you this stuff in school…

Vintage Pressworks — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:21:58 +0000

We recently had a group of students from the Art Institute of Colorado visit Foils + Dies to get a “feel” for letterpress. Professor Ed Popovitz and his digital pre-press class joined us in the studio for a lesson in what it’s like to take a project from concept to production. We had a chance to show off some of our favorite projects and review a job we had on press.

Introducing students and designers to letterpress is always one of our favorite things to do, because we love what we do. We hope they all enjoyed the experience and look forward to seeing some of their work run through the presses soon!

Not quite black and white…

Vintage Pressworks — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:10:02 +0000

Printed in rich black and warm gray on Crane’s Lettra, this invitation is the epitome of minimalist design. Designed by Julie Morey, it’s elegant, simple, has a fine focus on clean bold typography and high contrast, and was the perfect fit for her client.

Flight of the bumble bees.

Vintage Pressworks — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:57:28 +0000

This wedding invitation was designed by our very own Maura at The Paper Guppy, who specializes in custom invitation package designs. This invitation includes special details to the bride and groom like sprigs of lavender, blooming fruit and vines, and bumble bees which were all special details about their special day.

This package was letterpressed in brown ink, the invitation on Crane’s Lettra and the pouch on Curious Metallics’s Gold Leaf. The invitation itself has a chocolate satin ribbon pull tab to help the recipient elegantly remove it from its custom pouch.