20 years later, I still love this project!
When I was a graphic designer at the North Carolina Department of Transportation, we had a print shop in the basement. We could run any two-color job on those presses (we tried a few that were four-color too). I had to strip the negatives for each job, so it was a great way to really understand how printing works.
I wanted these invitations for the new HOV lanes in Charlotte to be more upscale than the usual white paper and two ink colors we ran. So I asked the guys if they would run black and silver inks on the black paper. They had never done it before, so I figured that was all the more reason to try it! It came out exactly as I had hoped. The black ink was more of a watermark on the black paper. And, it was still considered a two-color job, so no special letter was required to say why it should be four. (Yes, we really used to have to do that.)
We ran the interior invites on vellum – a really new and big thing then too – and hand assembled the invites. We used to spec all of our paper for our projects, so I chose silver metallic envelopes. (I miss the days of gorgeous paper sample books that showed all of the ways we could use the stock. It was always like Christmas when the reps came in!)
Old projects can still be good projects. This one will always be a fave!
