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BROWSE


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Client

Self-promotion


Quantity Produced

4,000


Production Cost


Production Time

7 Weeks

Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)

Poster: 19 in × 19 in
Tokens: 2.5 in Diameter


Page Count


Paper Stock

Cranes Lettra Pearl White, 110 lb
Midwest Products 1/8" Craft Plywood


Number of Colors

Poster: 1 Spot, 1 Foil stamp
Token: 2/1 Spot, 1 digital

Varnishes


Binding


Typography

United by House Industries

 

As a gift to its top advertising clients, Facebook typically gives money to donate to a charity of their choice, along with a special item like last year’s reusable shopping bag. This year they decided to do an art poster and the in-house Communication Design Team got to work. Seriously got to work. The result is a 19 × 19-inch-square poster that is printed, embossed and foiled with a delicate, intricate and obsessive design that has the signature typographic and illustrative style of Ben Barry, a designer at Facebook — and if you’ve been following his cryptic photo status updates on Facebook you finally have closure on what he was working on all this time.

To encourage the donation aspect of the gift, the poster comes with a silkscreened, wooden token that is then customized on the back with a unique code for redeeming the donation. But the token doesn’t just lay there, no, it comes nested in a pretty little flower-like pod that holds it in place. And even opening the poster requires paying attention to the custom printed packing tape and the lovely rubber stamp that has been stamped by hand.

There are also two different Thank You cards printed in 1-color offset and clear foil stamp.

And… yeah, that’s it. Here are 26 images that show more convincingly what I just tried to explain above.

Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster --- Facebook Poster

Above and below: Sheets of wooden tokens.
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The digital printer that printed directly onto the wood for the unique redemption codes.
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Tokens being routed.
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The embossing die for the poster.
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The foil stamping die for the poster.
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A stack of posters.

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Production Method

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Design

Facebook Communication Design Team

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Printing

Poster/tube/cards/etc: Oscar Printing, Apex Die
Tokens: DPI, Art Real

This post was published in the original layout of FPO so all images are smaller. Project descriptions as well as production lessons are quoted in the main content area.

Post Author

Armin

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Armin Vit

Editor of FPO and co-founder of UnderConsideration LLC.

More: Online / On Twitter

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Date Published

December 20, 2009

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UnderConsideration is a graphic design firm generating its own projects, initiatives, and content while taking on limited client work. Run by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit in Bloomington, IN. More…


blogs we publish

Brand New / Displaying opinions and focusing solely on corporate and brand identity work.

Art of the Menu / Cataloguing the underrated creativity of menus from around the world.

Quipsologies / Chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.

products we sell

Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work.

Brand New Conference videos / Individual, downloadable videos of every presentation since 2010.

Prints / A variety of posters, the majority from our AIforGA series.

Other / Various one-off products.

events we organize

Brand New Conference / A two-day event on corporate and brand identity with some of today's most active and influential practitioners from around the world.

Brand Nieuwe Conference / Ditto but in Amsterdam.

Austin Initiative for Graphic Awesomeness / A speaker series in Austin, TX, featuring some of the graphic design industry's most awesome people.

also

Favorite Things we've Made / In our capacity as graphic designers.

Projects we've Concluded / Long- and short-lived efforts.

UCllc News / Updates on what's going at the corporate level of UnderConsideration.


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