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Sacrificing the machine-ease of printing with a playing card company, designer Roland MacDonald printed this card deck through Dutch printer Libertas so he could have custom papers and coatings. The result is a seriously playful self-promotion item with attention to detail you can touch.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
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Page Count
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Paper Stock
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Number of Colors
CMYK
Varnishes
Matte Laminate
Binding
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Typography
Bellrose
Bitter Regular
Intro
Project Description
Resulting in a successful self promo campaign, this project started as a simple warm up/down exercise, this 'project' quickly found a life of its own. Sketches became illustrations, which led to even more illustrations. Before I knew it I was making up new rules, testing, designing a box and looking for a printer, until a classic game had been fully re-imagined almost by accident! All this work was done over three-and-a-half months, in the evenings and at weekends. The printing/production was split across two types of paper stock. A lush tactile coating was used for the coloured cards and a heavy textures natural paper for the not cards and oversized 'letter’.Production Lesson(s)
There were a lot of lessons for me. As an illustrator my work usually ends before the printing. Properly testing the durability of coatings and the glues would have shortened the production run. Understanding the limitations of the printer I chose was another lesson. The luxury of choosing stock and coatings came at the expense of very tight finishing that a focused playing card company would have had machines for. Working closely with the printer and both being invested in the production eventually created a beautiful product.
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Jessica Mullen
Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.
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Date Published
October 8, 2015
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Digital
Promotional Cards
Self promotion
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