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BROWSE
Client
The Church of Notm Ormon
Quantity Produced
1,000
Production Cost
Approximately $2,500
Production Time
3 weeks
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
Envelope: 9 in × 12 in
Certificate: 8.5 in × 11 in
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
Crane Lettra, Pearl White 110 lb Cover
Number of Colors
2
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typopgraphy
Notm Ormon letterforms: hand-created
Baskerville
Georgia
What happens when good designers get offended by religious practices? The Church of Notm Ormon! Visual troublemaker Brian Singer went to extreme, beautiful lengths to make fun of the Mormon ritual of “baptism by proxy”, which is the baptism of a live person on behalf of a dead person, so the dead person can still enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Inappropriate dinner-table conversation aside, this certificate and envelope are exquisite to behold, as if God Himself designed them. Blasphemy!
The Church of Notm Ormon is a new religion, seeking to bolster their numbers through a process called “Baptism by Proxy”. This practice, which every major religion (except for one) frowns upon, involves baptizing the dead, via a proxy. Notm Ormon takes it one step further, by allowing baptisms of the living by proxy as well.
The big lesson on this project was in how certain foil colors react to certain papers. The imprint from an opaque metallic foil was clean and crisp, on both the envelope and the certificate, but shiny gold felt more appropriate for the subject matter, so we sacrificed some print quality for concept.
Notm Ormon Certificate and Envelope
Production Method
Design
Altitude
Printing
Letterpress: Dependable Letterpress
Foil: JR Press
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
Jessica Mullen
Jessica Mullen
Current intern at UnderConsideration LLC.
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Date Published
November 10, 2011
Filed Under
Stationery
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