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Offset
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Typography crimes like stretching, bad kerning, and using Comic Sans are visualized as things you wouldn’t want done to your face in this hilarious and beautifully produced self-promo.
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Offset by pH Production
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For a rustic kind of restaurant, these rustic kind of print materials are the perfect balance of rough and tumble chic. Plus, the business card has little table legs!
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Laser cut by Büro North
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Look ma, no ink! This invitation is done in full with laser cutting, including the small type.
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Rita, in collaboration with Daniel Julien
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Laser Etch by bld
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Laser etched felt cushions in Letter, Legal, and Tabloid sizes. One word: Want.
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Inkjet by Nicole Ziegler
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Proof that very small run (only 10) projects don’t have to suffer from production quality, this family newsletter is joyfully design and patiently put together by trimming newsprint paper, feeding it through an Epson and hand sewn.
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Letterpress by Cranky Pressman
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ASCII characters. Unicorns. Letterpress. What’s not to love?
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Laser Cut, Blind Deboss, and Duplexing by Premier Press
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This is like a good cocktail at a fancy bar: colorful, tasty, and well mixed.
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Offset by American Printing Co.
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An excellent selection of imagery and a widely loved topic — bicycles — made this a very popular post on FPO. Flawless printing didn’t hurt.
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Letterpress and Engraving by Rohner
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This “deck” of cards serves as a showcase for all the groovy things Rohner can do to paper. Each card with a different technique, all of them demand a “wowza.”
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Silkscreen by Hannah Dollery and Amy Pyle
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Silkscreend on a fancy cloth, this CV is sure to get attention. Or at the very least it should help clean up someone’s spilled coffee as they review resumes.
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Digital Print and Deboss by Classic Color
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If you are going to be cute about a baby announcement, go the full monty and make it over the top adorable and well done.
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Letterpress by Cranky Pressman
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Some things go together like peanut butter and jelly: In their second collaboration to show up on FPO’s Best of 2010 Parliament of Owls and Cranky Pressman have created another richly illustrated and produced project. This one features the “Coasters, the senior citizens of beach community living” to promote, yup, coasters.
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blogs we publish
Brand New / Displaying opinions and focusing solely on corporate and brand identity work.
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.
products we sell
Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work.
Brand New Conference videos / Individual, downloadable videos of every presentation since 2010.
Prints / A variety of posters, the majority from our AIforGA series.
Other / Various one-off products.
events we organize
Brand New Conference / A two-day event on corporate and brand identity with some of today's most active and influential practitioners from around the world.
Brand Nieuwe Conference / Ditto but in Amsterdam.
Austin Initiative for Graphic Awesomeness / A speaker series in Austin, TX, featuring some of the graphic design industry's most awesome people.
also
Favorite Things we've Made / In our capacity as graphic designers.
Projects we've Concluded / Long- and short-lived efforts.
UCllc News / Updates on what's going at the corporate level of UnderConsideration.
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