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Happy Orbit Greeting Card
Production Method
Letterpress
Design
The Hungry Workshop
Jenna & Simon Hipgrave
Printing
The Hungry Workshop
Valid for earthlings aged 1-999, The Happy Workshop’s celebration of another momentous lap around the sun is not only personalizable, but also future-proof. Complete with a Kraft envelope and protective plastic sleeve, this greeting card should also come with a Forever Stamp.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
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Page Count
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Paper Stock
Spicers / Stephen / Smart White / 330gsm
Number of Colors
2
Varnishes
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Binding
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Typography
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Project Description
Sometimes you forget to take stock of who you are and just how far you've come.You get older, you get busier. You're not so bothered by the trivial things in life such as cake and candles. But really, you shouldn't have to be Joseph Gordon-Levitt to appreciate your time on the third rock from the sun; a birthday is a big deal. We thought it apt to commemorate such a momentous occasion with this future-proofed letterpress card.
To calculate the approximate number of orbits you've completed around the sun simply take the last four digit number of today's date and the last four digit number under the "date of birth" on your driver's licence or birth certificate and subtract the latter from the former. Et voilà.
It's good for earthlings aged 1 to 999.
The Happy Orbit cards are letterpress printed with fluorescent orange and silver ink on Stephen Smart White 330gsm, an Australian-made, 100% carbon neutral stock and come complete with a kraft envelope, packaged in a protective plastic sleeve.
Production Lesson(s)
Printing silver ink with a light enough tone to write over proved challenging. A lighter ink coverage with double hit solved the problem.
Post Author
Kelly Cree
Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
January 23, 2013
Filed Under
Greeting Card
Letterpress
Tagged with
birthday
envelope
fluorescent
kraft
silver
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