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Upstatement Holiday Gift Box
Production Method
Laser-Cut
Silkscreen
Design
Upstatement
John Boilard; Design, Direction
Mike Swartz; Direction, Box Production
Printing
James Weinberg
This year, Upstatement made a huge step up from simply printing a holiday card for friends, family, and clients. The firm designed and hand-crafted wood boxes and coaster sets, with inspiration from the firm’s century-old office building. The triumph of this project lies in the aesthetic connection of the early 1900s with contemporary times. While these singular tokens of appreciation have a quality and style of a bygone era, modern production techniques provide a link back to the here and now.
Process video at the end of the post.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
Box: 6 × 5.5 × 5.5 in
Card: 5 × 7 in
Belly Band: 2.5 × 12 in
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
French Paper / Pop Tone / Black Licorice / 100 C
Number of Colors
3
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
Vincent
Hoboken High Sans
Project Description
For the holidays, we milled, sawed, cut 100 gift boxes for friends, family and clients. We also screen printed a set of cards and coasters to include in this box set.We found inspiration for our holiday card right here at Upstatement HQ. The card features our building in Boston's Fort Point neighborhood, which celebrates its 100th birthday this year. The coaster set shares views from the neighborhood at the turn of the century.
We had a blast making this gift set this year and look forward to expanding upon the idea in 2014!
Production Lesson(s)
Even though we started two weeks earlier than usually the largest take away was to start this project much earlier in the year. We typically just print a card but this year we had the inspiration to build out boxes and include a special gift set inside. More time to mock up work, sketch ideas and leave more time for production may lend more flexibility in the future.
Post Author
Duncan Robertson
Former intern at UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
March 6, 2014
Filed Under
Holiday Card
Laser-Cut
Self promotion
Silkscreen
Tagged with
coasters
DIY
Laser etching
wood cutting
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