Business Card for/by Bürocratik

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CLIENT

Büro­cratik is a brand and dig­i­tal design agency estab­lished in 2005 in Coim­bra, Por­tu­gal. They pride them­selves in cre­at­ing prob­lem-solv­ing and engag­ing visu­al com­mu­ni­ca­tion solutions. 

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BRIEF

We want­ed our card to be black with white ink on it. We all know this demands silkscreen but white print nor­mal­ly looks so bad that we always shed tears when we get the prints. We also want­ed it to be thick and with lime green—the sec­ond col­or of our identity.

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APPROACH

Using such a very light type­face we need­ed a top-notch silkscreen­er. We strug­gled with sev­er­al providers and final­ly found one in Switzer­land that did the job per­fect­ly. The next prob­lem was to get lime green on black. Final­ly, we decid­ed to make a triplex (three papers glued togeth­er) giv­ing us the thick­ness we were look­ing for. Glued papers can eas­i­ly look ama­teur with all the weird shapes that paper with glue can yield, but Lorenz did a bril­liant job: per­fect white, per­fect­ly defined UV, over­all small type on an amaz­ing triplex card that refus­es to bend over itself.