There’s a small display of designer Christmas cards at London’s Design Museum this month featuring cards by various design studios and three of our designs are featured.
Here they are in situ.
They date from a particular period in the 90s when we seemed to do very little in November and December except design season’s greetings.
This one from way back in the mists of time involved filling out hundreds out £1 bets on a white xmas and then sending the slips to all our clients.
Then we started throwing money at the problem. This was a pack to fool your family at Christmas during interminable ‘board game’ sessions.
The kit of parts allowed you to cheat at Monopoly (fake cards, see image at the top of this post), blank domino tiles + ‘dot’ stickers, loaded dice, spare aces, even a handy book of allowable two-letter words in Scrabble and some spare blanks. And, yes, that is a bespoke vac-formed holder.
By this stage we’d created a monster. Whoever it was who decided that the next year would involve foil portraits of the team (plus dog), well we soon regretted that as we wrapped dodgy chocolate for months.
Designing the back label seemed to take another fortnight.
Luckily sense soon prevailed, a recession intervened and life returned to more manageable options.
Here’s this years, just a simple ram-punched “xmas’ postcard out of super thick card.
There’s an old blog post on the full list of shame here if you want to see more.
Thanks to Margaret and the team and the Design Museum for featuring our cards.
Thought for the week is now taking a week off for Xmas - we’ll be back early in the New Year with our review of the year. There’s still time to leave comments about 2012 on the blog, or tweet us with your thoughts.