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Running Doves Press Papercraft Santa
Production Method
Die-cut
Letterpress
Design
Chris Parks
Jonathan Wood
Printing
Letterpress: Running Doves Press
Die cutting: Prestige Graphics
It looks like Santa’s started cloning himself via the convenient and cost-effective method of letterpress. They fold flat for easy storage! Just don’t feed them after midnight.
FPO video review at the end of the post.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
About 8 inches tall
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
Mohawk Loop / Fossil / 110LB DTC
Number of Colors
3 Spot
Varnishes
–
Binding
Diecut
Typography
Caecilia LT Std
Sanuk Medium
Unit
Times
Gotham
Project Description
Since my shop is designer-owned we were determined to not send out a standard, expected, holiday card. We really wanted to give a gift, an object, but still produce it mostly under our roof.The papercraft idea seemed like the perfect solution. I enlisted the help of my friend Chris Parks who is a master of this kind of thing and he started on the dieline. That took the bulk of the design time. Once our die was finalized we just illustrated graphics, which by that point seemed like the easy part.
Production Lesson(s)
Opaque white ink needs to be more opaque.
Post Author
Jessica Mullen
Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
April 30, 2012
Filed Under
Die-cut
Holiday Card
Letterpress
Tagged with
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holiday gift
holiday promo
letterpress
papercraft
self-promotion
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