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UCllc 2012 Holiday Cards and Gift
Production Method
Offset
Design
UnderConsideration
Armin Vit
Bryony Gomez-Palacio
Printing
Tabloid Cards: Newspaper Club
Mug: Promo Logo Mugs
Color cards: Moo
We used the time-consuming designs we created for Moo for a set of Ready Made holiday cards to create our own yearly holiday card and client/sponsor/über-friend gift. Our holiday cards have typically been No. 10-sized so they fit in a simple envelope and are cheap to produce and mail. Being more ambitious this year, we went oversize by printing 26 64-page newspapers where each sheet folded down to a mailable holiday card and then opened back up to a nice, poster-size holiday treat. It was a bit of a mind-bender to figure out the right pagination set-up but nothing that a few mini mock-ups didn’t solve.
For the mug, the thinking was more straightforward, mainly: “Let’s put this on a mug”. Luckily it’s cheaper than I thought and makes for a great gift.
If you are interested in one of the mugs, we have about 15 left, we’ll sell them at production cost of $7.25 plus shipping. We’ll squeeze in a large holiday card in there as well. Scroll to the end of the post for purchase button.
Client
Self-Promotion
Quantity Produced
Tabloid Cards: 316
Mugs: 72
Color cards: On demand
Production Cost
Tabloid Cards: $228
Mugs: $521.77
Color cards: On demand
Production Time
1 month
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
Tabloid Cards: 11.77 in × 14.5
Mugs: 3.6875 in high × 3.125 in diameter
Color cards: 4.13 in × 5.82 in
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
Tabloid Cards: Newsprint
Mugs: Mug
Color cards: Uncoated
Number of Colors
Tabloid Cards: CMYK
Mugs: 1
Color cards: CMYK
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
Alda by Emigre
Full newspaper, as delivered.
Folding it down.
Folding it down.
Project Description
A cornucopia of holiday cards and gifts from us to our family, friends, peers, and contributors sparked by a project from Moo.Production Lesson(s)
When doing digital printing with Newspaper Club push the CMYK values higher than usual so that the colors come out fuller. With the mugs: detailed designs are hard to reproduce in, well, detail.
Post Author
Armin Vit
Editor of FPO and co-founder of UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
February 13, 2013
Filed Under
Holiday Card
Offset
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About UnderConsideration
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.
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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