for the last 5 years we've always worked with fabrics — we're used to designing shapes, cutting, sewing and sampling ourselves and spending time carving out a product. With these little card holders the process was entirely different, we were offered an opportunity by a friend of ours to join a print run they were doing with card holders (these are printed and stamped plastic), this was a great opportunity – the only problem was that he needed the artwork fast, and we were in the middle of exhibiting at The Spirit of Summer. On the last day of the deadline, we rushed back to the studio after the show and produced the first six designs from scratch in just under an hour.
we did enjoy the process, it was the fast, we didn't have time to think about design or agonise over details too much, there wasn't time to think about colours and combinations nor was there time to produce particularly complicated prints. (It kind of reminded us of how we used to work during our degrees). The designs had to be simple, and look nice too. Despite the time constraints the designs were fun to produce, we produced them entirely in Adobe Illustrator and gave them a couple of final colour tweaks in Adobe Photoshop before emailing them off. We're both really pleased with how they turned out and we hope you like them too!
and so we've decided that if your card holder wears out, or you decide that you fancy a different print, send it back to us, we'll recycle it for you and we'll give you 50% off of a new one! buy online here.
Hey we're doing little plastic Card Holders! Woo! →
