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Wright & Goebel Business Cards
Production Method
Deboss
Letterpress
Design
The Working Assembly
Lawrence O'Toole + Jolene Delisle
Printing
Rise and Shine Letterpress
Color & texture tie one on in this nautical themed identity package for wine & spirit vendor Wright & Goebel.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
3.5 in × 2 in
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
Crane Lettra / Ecru / 110 C (300GSM)
Number of Colors
1/1 PMS 553U soy ink
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
Akzidenz-Grotesk
Project Description
The challenge put forth by the owners was to envision a look that was completely different than most other wine shops—no old world, barrel, glass or grape imagery here. Instead, the owners were taking a decidedly more modern approach to the store, presenting bottles in a curated, gallery-like atmosphere. The feel of the space was to be west coast, modern, and inspired by yachting and nautical lifestyles.The letters W and G overlap, joined by an implied ampersand, which also reads as a knot. In keeping with the nautical inspiration, the chosen colors are a muted navy over an ecru stock.
Production Lesson(s)
Rather than true blind embossing, which would cause issues with push-through on the face of the card, we used two plates for printing the reverse: the first was for the overall field of blue, which allows the central monogram to rise in texture, and the second was for the pattern.Once the first pass of the reverse was dry, we ran the cards through the press with using the pattern plate and no ink. The effect was a subtle blind deboss of the pattern. This is what we were looking for, but the pattern was just a little bit too subtle. However, after some experimentation, we ran the plate again over the cards with another hit of blue on just the pattern, which debossed the pattern and made an interesting two-tone effect.
Post Author
Kelly Cree
Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.
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Date Published
May 1, 2012
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Deboss
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