Ok, usually I try to discourage people from including in their designs flood prints or large coverages of ink.
This is because it can tun out badly.
This business card, though, turned out just fine. For some reason the lighter shades of blue seem to work for this sort of thing better than, say dark brown.
I like the way that the thinner line of black presses deeper into the card than the larger areas of blue.
I will still try to discourage you from having me print work with large coverage areas, but sometimes . . .
Here is a piece that I printed back in about 1898 after first carting our new Chandler and Price platen press up the hill to the print shop from the railway station. The color palate was all the rage that year and the cut was an electrotype block which I purchased from Messrs. Badoureau and Jones of Fleet Street in London.
A long time ago, The Nomadic Press was hired to produce a letterpress book. The project called for the use of hand set metal type, wood engraved illustrations and hand binding techniques. But the tricky part was the use of marbleized paper for the end sheets.
Ah Spring, or nearly so, and a young man’s fancy turns to, well, love.