Letterpress

Recently I've been enamored with letterpress designs on cards and such. They have such an old yet simple and elegant look to them. I especially love the tactile element they give. It seems they've come back in popularity too. Recently, when researching wedding invitation ideas with my friend Anne, we came across a lot of designs using letterpress. Here's an interesting and informative video on the process and the machines used in this old form of printing.

FireFly Letterpress from ilovetypography.com on Vimeo.

Here are some beautiful and more graphic, as opposed to typographic, letterpress cards from Elum.