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Boab Design Business Cards
Production Method
Foil stamp
Laser-Cut
Offset
Design
Boab Design
Brittany Jones
Mike Frier
Printing
Taylor'd Press
Laser-cut, foil stamped, duplexed and offset, these business cards for Darwin, Australia-based Boab Design reflect the company’s passion for custom creations.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
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Page Count
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Paper Stock
BJ Ball / Colorplan / Stone, Unembossed / 350GSM
BJ Ball / Colorplan / Dark Grey, Unembossed / 350GSM
Number of Colors
1
Varnishes
–
Binding
Duplex
Typography
PMN Caecilia
Whitney
Project Description
We wanted our business cards to express who we are. A card that when exchanged, conveyed our passion for intelligent and custom design.The cards feature several processes: laser-cutting of the Boab logo to reveal the contrasting paper colour below, foiling of our names in copper and a single spot colour ink for our contact details. Finally the two paper stocks (Colorplan Stone and Dark Grey 350gsm) were duplexed for maximum effect.
Production Lesson(s)
One thing we learned with foiling is that to get the best results, the minimum size of the stroke is 0.4pt. So we had to go in and slightly tweak a few of the characters so that all parts were thick enough for the foil block.Also, because of the laser cut, an additional sheet of card stock had to be placed in between each sheet of business cards before being guillotined so that the edges of the laser cut would not be compressed.
Post Author
Jessica Mullen
Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
January 27, 2015
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