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BROWSE
Client
Self-promotion
Quantity Produced
600
Production Cost
$350
Production Time
1 Week
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
24 in × 22 in
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
Newsprint
Number of Colors
1
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
Hand-lettering
Implied fire is as good as real fire, especially for holiday wishes. To get themselves, and their friends and clients, into the spirit Toronto-based Pylon Design hand-carved some warm holiday wishes out of linoleum and then printed them on past newspapers, reminding everyone what a, um, peculiar year we had. More from the Pylon team:
The recession has left people in the cold once again this year so we wanted to send out our warmest wishes to our clients. Newspaper is a great item to start a fire with at home, but we wanted everyone, even those without fireplaces to feel the warmth of the season. We block printed by hand a large flame made up of holiday wishes on over 600 newspapers. We then stuffed them in block printed envelopes and sent them on their way to spread some holiday cheer.
Three printing blocks were produced, one for an envelope and two for the newspaper all of which were cut from lino block. The newspapers were randomly selected without discretion (despite some awkward headlines!). Everyone in our office had a hand in cutting out the design and amazingly only one designer was harmed in the process, he will be fine.
Pylon 2009 Holiday Mailer
Production Method
Design
Pylon
Design/Illustration: Hanna Chen
Design: Liam Johnstone, Steve Garwood, Sascha Hass, Colin Payson, Kevin Hoch, Scott Christie, Brian Marchand, Robin Smyth
Printing
Pylon
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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.
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Prints / A variety of posters, the majority from our AIforGA series.
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events we organize
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Brand Nieuwe Conference / Ditto but in Amsterdam.
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