Paper Inspiration #51: Truth + Dare Brochure

“The truth is — as PaperSpecsGallery.com points out – this tidy, carry-in-your-back-pocket printed portfolio was a great way for “stan can design” to showcase his design and advertising expertise as well as his approach to that work.” – PaperSpecs Gallery

Lou Dorfsman’s Card

Quite while ago I attended the ADAC conference in Sacramento (maybe 1995?) and the Keynote speaker was Lou Dorfman. I have his business card here as proof. Proof that the I am a total design nerd and nothing will stop me from asking a design legend for their business card.

This is the beginning of a series of posts sharing some of my favorites from my business card collection.

Story goes—We were standing in the Men’s room in front of the urinals and he said to me “Quite a trip taking a leak right next to Lou Dorfsman?”, I guess the my fandom was showing. After washing our hands I asked him for his business card. He seemed quite impressed that I did (I guess not a lot of us business card collectors out there?) he even offered to take me to lunch.

I’ll never forget that it was his 75th birthday and he choose to spend it at a Design Conference 3000 miles from home and spent a little bit of time with me. I suspect he had a bit of design nerd in him too.

Lou’s card is printed one side, 1 color engraving on a light cover weight cotton sheet. It was considered inelegant back in the day to have a thick card. He said that his partner Harry Zelenko did the hand-lettering. Holy crap!  look at it here enlarged:

Julie Ardito Public Relations Stationery

I completed this job last Spring and I forgot how much I like it. Simply two colors of ink on French Specktone ® paper with a couple of surprises in the layout. (You will have to ask Julie for one of her cards)

It used to be that French Papers were very difficult to get a hold of and use in small quantities. At least here in the boonies. Now, it is easy to purchase and use in small quantities. They are also great people to work with. Check out their website: 
http://www.frenchpaper.com/

Client: Julie Ardito Public Relations
Calligraphy: Janey Saavedra, Stan Byers
Printer: Registered Ink
Paper: Speckletone, French Paper Company

I do… I did… I can.

Here are a few examples of the
work that Zephyr Press produced lately.
I really enjoyed working on these.
Kurt and Jim did a great job printing them!

BTW: If you are interested in letterpress printing for any
type of communication let me know I can get you a discount!