One of my favorite things in terms of line development is personal cards. My husband rarely hands out his business card in a social setting because of where he works. He asked me to make a set of personal cards for him. He wanted something simple and clean. I decided to go with the classic: initials, more like initial (just a D for his last name…) I rented out a press at Evanston Print and Paper and made one beautiful mistake…
It was supposed to be two colors: blind hit (no color just the indentation of the plate onto the paper) and blue. I printed the blue first because I was printing blue previously for another job and then cleaned the rollers to make the blind hit. While cleaning the rollers, I looked over to the clear varnish base and wondered if the varnish base will add some sort of matte sheen to the piece… Highly doubt anything would happen because the cotton paper is very absorbant but figured it wouldn’t hurt, I put some varnish base onto the rollers and off I went.
Apparently, the rollers weren’t as clean as I anticipated… and this came out:
I like the light blue on the D (from residual blue left on the rollers + clear varnish) very much… Beautiful mistake.
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