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BROWSE
Client
Self-non-promotion
Quantity Produced
500
Production Cost
$800
Production Time
1 Week
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
4.25 in × 4.25 in
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
Mixed, Various Weights
Number of Colors
–
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
Brush Script (used, jokingly, for inserted explanation of the card)
On top of the kind, humorous and long-lasting friendship, one of the perks of being friends with Marian Bantjes is that you receive in the mail the most wonderful surprises when you have just begun to wonder why nothing fun comes in the mail anymore. On a regular, yearly basis you can expect to receive an envelope in Halloween and one in Valentine’s Day. The latter is especially satisfying as Marian is able to transform the trite clichés of the holiday into something unmistakably awesome.
We also follow Marian on Facebook, and around the end of December and beginning of January she started asking for all those holiday cards people receive and might eventually throw away. A mysterious request but one that was well obliged. A few weeks ago we received our Valentine’s Cards from Marian and it all finally made sense: Recycling all those doomed holiday cards, she created a heart design that she used to create some lovely laser-cut cards, all of them unique in their own way as they all were different papers, colors and textures. It wasn’t all fun and games obviously, as Marian explains:
I learned that laser cutting is quite sensitive to thickness of stock. I had to sort all of the cards into different weights (using just a snap of the paper to guess at relative weights) and supply them to the laser cutter in 5 batches of sorted approximate weights.
Now, we patiently sit by the mailbox until Halloween.
Images above provided by Marian, photos below of our two hearts by us
Marian’s Valentine’s Day Cards
Production Method
Design
Heart by Marian Bantjes
Holiday Cards by Various
Printing
Arkwel Industries (Laser Cutting)
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
Armin Vit
Editor of FPO and co-founder of UnderConsideration LLC.
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Date Published
March 16, 2010
Filed Under
Promotional Cards
Tagged with
heart
holiday card
laser die-cut
recycle
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