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Creative Suitcase Holiday Mailer
Production Method
Die-cut
Emboss
Offset
Design
Creative Suitcase
Design: Megan Mead
Creative Direction: Rachel Clemens
Printing
Ginny's Printing
Each year, Creative Suitcase donates 5% of its profits to a worthy cause. Last year’s choice charity was Ripples of Hope for Children, a non-profit helping provide young people with the basic building blocks of life: healthcare, education and support. Creative Suitcase created their own punch and play version of the ubiquitous, childhood toy, and a whimsical instructional video to match.
Client
Self-Promotion
Quantity Produced
500
Production Cost
–
Production Time
2 Weeks
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
9 in × 12 in
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
Neenah, uncoated, 100lb
Number of Colors
CMYK
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
Futura by Paul Renner
Garamond
Project Description
Many children miss out on the basic building blocks of life: healthcare, education and support. Every year we donate 5% of our profits to a non-profit organization or charity. Last year, we chose to give to Ripples of Hope for Children, a non-profit organization giving kids the help and services they need for success. To commemorate this donation, we sent out a building block of our own with embossed, hand-crafted letters, a unique perforated die, and a message inspired by the spirit of giving.Production Lesson(s)
Through this process we learned some of the challenges with making perforated dies. Perhaps we should have done more research on the many varieties of teeth used, so that we could have been more informed when sending it off to the die-maker. The first time it came back, the perfs were so course that the piece was near impossible to punch out without ripping it. We had to send the entire die back to be remade with finer teeth. Hey, live and learn right?
Post Author
Kelly Cree
Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
March 20, 2012
Filed Under
Die-cut
Emboss
Holiday Card
Offset
V1 to V2
Tagged with
CMYK
die-cut
emboss
holiday
perforation
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UnderConsideration is a graphic design firm generating its own projects, initiatives, and content while taking on limited client work. Run by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit in Bloomington, IN. More…
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.
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UCllc News / Updates on what's going at the corporate level of UnderConsideration.
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