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HUB Collective Thank You Card Suite

Production Method

Mollet Printing, Inc

(8 hand-drawn patterns × 5 colors) × (28 hand-drawn messages × 5 colors) = 5,600 playful solutions. — Kelly Cree

Client

Self-Promotional

Quantity Produced

–

Production Cost

–

Production Time

–

Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)

6 in × 4 in

Page Count

–

Paper Stock

Neenah / Blotter / White / 24pt

Number of Colors

5

Varnishes

–

Binding

–

Typography

Hand-drawn

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We wanted a playful way to reach out to our clients and contacts with message options beyond the traditional "Thank You". So, we designed a suite of mix-and-match postcards suitable for almost any occasion. The embossed postcards feature eight hand drawn classic patterns (printed in five different colors) and twenty-eight hand drawn messages on tip-in stickers (printed in five different colors). That gives us 5,600 different postcard/sticker combinations!

Production Lesson(s)

The postcards were first offset printed, then blind embossed on a letterpress. A tiny bit of paper stretching occurred during printing, which had our vendor chasing the registration around a bit but in the end, the outcome was fantastic.

Post Author

Kelly Cree

Former intern at UnderConsideration LLC.

More: Online / On Twitter

Date Published

May 11, 2012

Filed Under

Emboss
Offset
Postcard

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