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Client
Andy Babb
Quantity Produced
250 (25 sets of 10 cards)
Production Cost
$200
Production Time
1 week
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
6 in × 4.25 in
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
140 lb Cover Muscletone Kraft French Paper
Number of Colors
3 spot inks: Gold, brown and white
When holiday cards abound, there is often a desire to stand out from the rest by creating something unique. Andy Babb was thinking about this when his brainstorming led him to the end of the holidays, that final day when most of us seek to get back on a certain path and voice resolutions for the new year to start.
At first, riffing on the double-meaning of resolution—a decision as well as an industry term for image quality—felt perhaps a bit too precious or cute, but I decided to suck it up and have fun with it anyway. Generalizing from my own personal experience with pie-in-the-sky resolutions that were never fully realized, I imagined polar outcomes for the ten topics I chose.
With time and budget in mind, as well as personal limiatations Andy got to work, finding a way to bring to life the lofty resolutions (labeled as “Hi-Res”) and the more realistic, less idealistic actual outcomes (“Lo-Res”).
The biggest challenge of the project was time. The concept came to me the week of Thanksgiving and I needed to get the cards produced far enough in advance of 2010 so as to not be totally irrelevant. I gave myself a little over a week for design. I didn’t want the fronts of the cards to be merely typographic, I am not a natural illustrator, and had zero budget for imagery. For all but one of the images I used, I sourced from public domain photographs and illustrations in the Library of Congress online archives. For production, I worked with Grand Palace Silkscreen, who did a quality job expediting the printing.
Surely a little humor goes a long way when your mailbox is overflowing with the corny, the expected, the safe and cute messages sent in by family and friends — no offense.
10 Resolutions for 2010 Postcards
Production Method
Design
Andy Babb
Printing
Grand Palace Silkscreen
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
Bryony
Bryony Gomez-Palacio
Editor of FPO and co-founder of UnderConsideration LLC.
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Date Published
January 22, 2010
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