How do you handle one capability per piece?

A single piece with six finishes on it proves nothing about any of them. Each build isolates one thing: the triplex card is about the red core, the blind-letterpress card is about impression with no ink, the raised gloss card is about raised gloss, the pearlescent card is about a shimmer under flat black.

How do you handle include the difficult ones?

The easy wins, gold foil on black cotton, are what everyone photographs. Also built the awkward ones: white ink on kraft, flat spot UV that only appears at a raking angle, blind emboss with no ink at all, pigment foil that has no metallic glint. If a finish is subtle, the photograph has to prove it is there.

How do you handle same light for all sixty-eight?

Different lighting per piece makes a portfolio, not a reference. One scene, one light: black basalt plinth, single hard key raking from upper left, rim on the right edge to show stock thickness. Every difference you see between these pieces is the material, not the photograph.

Design exercise · Business cards · Peppermint

Every process we sell, once each

The foundation exercise. One piece per capability across business cards, invitations, envelopes, letterhead, notecards, stickers and boxes, so every material and finish in the catalogue has a photograph attached to it.

Business-cards for Print Peppermint design exercise with 8 colours including holographic and pigment foil stamping, 68 pieces across 8 product families, exotic stocks: cotton, kraft, suede, pearlescent, cork, wood, metal, acrylic, plastic and pantone spot, fluorescent pantone, blind letterpress, raised gloss, triplex.

FoilsYellow Gold · 101, Deep Copper · 115-2, Silver · 120, Rose Gold · 117-3, Rainbow Iridescent · R1, Black · 162-9 TechniquesDeboss, Die Cut, Duplex, Gilded Edge, Painted Edge, Emboss, Hot Foil, Black Foil, Copper Foil, Gold Foil, Holographic Foil, Rose Gold Foil, Silver Foil, Letterpress, Raised Spot UV, Spot UV, Triplex StocksHyacinth Cotton · 32pt, Kraft natural 18pt, Suede laminate, Constellation Jade Satin, Solid walnut, Satin stainless, Clear acrylic, White PVC card stock

The idea

Before anything expressive, we needed one photograph per capability. Not a mood board, a reference: this is what copper foil on black cotton looks like under a single hard light, this is what a red triplex core looks like at 48pt.

Three rules

01One capability per piece. Each build isolates one thing: the triplex card is about the red core, the blind-letterpress card is about impression with no ink, the rais…
02Include the difficult ones. Also built the awkward ones: white ink on kraft, flat spot UV that only appears at a raking angle, blind emboss with no ink at all, pigment…
03Same light for all sixty-eight. One scene, one light: black basalt plinth, single hard key raking from upper left, rim on the right edge to show stock thickness. Every dif…