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Amy & John’s Surprise Invitation
Production Method
Letterpress
Design
Saint Gertrude Design & Letterpress
Printing
Saint Gertrude Design & Letterpress
I don’t want to give it all away, as I think the images below are better at telling this story, but this is a great example of a designer actually “using” graphic design to create a memory that won’t be easily forgotten.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
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Page Count
1
Paper Stock
Crane / Crane's Lettra / Pearl White / 22
Number of Colors
2
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
Mishka
Mishka Bold
Archer Medium
Archer Medium Italic
Futura Bold
Project Description
As a wedding invitation designer and letterpress printer, I cheated myself out of the best possible job opportunity when my (now husband) and I decided to throw a surprise wedding at our daughter's 2nd birthday. Then I got thinking... maybe I could create invitations to the birthday that hid some kind of secret message. I spent months poring over a design that existed on two separate levels: a little girl's birthday invitation that, when viewed through 3D decoder glasses, became a wedding invitation. The design had to be really tight so that we felt confident to send it to our friends and family without worrying that they would see the hidden message. And guess what? It worked! Until they arrived at the birthday party and put those 3D glasses on, they never saw it coming.Production Lesson(s)
The biggest production challenge I faced was creating the exact shade of red ink to 'dissolve' into the design once the glasses were being worn. I literally wore the glasses while mixing the ink and testing the shade!
Post Author
Bryony Gomez-Palacio
Editor of FPO and co-founder of UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
March 27, 2013
Filed Under
Letterpress
Wedding materials
Tagged with
crane lettra
invitation
letterpress
PMS
surprise
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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…
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