Sabre Dance Invitations for Katie

Back when Vrooooom Press was just a glimmer in our collective eyes, we had an opportunity to print up some unique invitations for our friend Katie. Commissioned for a end of the school year celebration, these sabre dance invitations on oval cut matboard were the result! The printing is a little distressed due to the uneven surface of the matboard and our early inexperience with screenprinting, but we still like this project. Nonstandard ephemera is a great way to add something extra to a project without breaking the bank. I think way too many people have become blind to the the role print plays in their daily lives… how often do you receive a simple offset postcard with aqueous coating in the mail? It’s a reliable standard, but sometimes it might as well not exist at all due to its extreme popularity as a cheap production option.

A lot of our original attraction to working in ephemera is a response to the announcement that print is dead. Nothing could be further from the truth. Although it’s definitely important to consider cautiously whether or not your idea necessitates a printed project in the age of online newsletters and twitter updates, nothing impresses like having a physical object in your hands. Even a simple spot color piece can impress with a traditional print process, as it seems to break out of the two dimensionality of a monitor. Throw in a unique substrate or post-print process like die cutting, and the results can be both inexpensive and memorable for your audience!

This entry was posted on Saturday, July 17th, 2010 at 12:31 pm and is filed under Design, Screen Prints and tagged with antique cut, border, early work, ephemera, invitation, matboard, ornament, party, screenprint. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.