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Client

Self-promotion


Quantity Produced

Business Cards: 500 each of 2 names
Letterhead: 700
Envelope: 500


Production Cost

$3,000


Production Time

3 Weeks

Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)

Business Cards: 3.375 × 2.25 in
Letterhead: 8.5 in × 11
Envelope: No. 10


Page Count


Paper Stock

Mohawk Navajo 80lb text
Domtar Hots 65lb cover


Number of Colors

2 Spot (Black + PMS Yellow 012)

Varnishes

Business Cards: Spot varnished type to avoid transfer


Binding


Typography

Helvetica

 

For his own stationery, Mike Kasperski went with some very basic essentials: Helvetica, yellow and black. What could potentially look boring and default, here comes across as design-ey and sophisticated — two qualities that a designer should never shy away from. To make matters more design-ey and sophisticated, Mike created his business cards by sandwiching a heavy yellow cover paper between two text-weight sheets of Mohawk Navajo, which creates a lovely effect. And, interestingly, rather than specify a different weight for each piece, that same Navajo sheet was used to print the letterhead and custom envelope as well, so the whole project can be printed in one go.

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Design

Creative Direction and Design: Mike Kasperski, Matter Strategic Design

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Printing

Springfield Graphics
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Armin

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Armin Vit

Editor of FPO and co-founder of UnderConsideration LLC.

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Date Published

April 13, 2010

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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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