How do you handle frosted is the workhorse?

Clear plastic shows everything behind it, including whatever is on the table. Type floats and legibility collapses. Frosted for anything text-heavy. It diffuses the background into an even field, so white ink and foil both read. Clear is reserved for pieces where seeing through is the idea.

How do you handle white ink first, always?

Spot colour printed straight onto clear PVC goes translucent and shifts against whatever it sits on. An opaque white underprint under every colour pass. On the two-pantone bookmarks that is three passes for two colours, and it is the only way the colour stays put.

How do you handle plastic where paper would fail?

If paper does the job, plastic is just an expensive substitute. Chose applications where the material earns it: waterproof tags, coasters that meet a wet glass, festival passes on a lanyard, a magnet save-the-date, loyalty cards that get punched. The duplex two-tone edge is the one purely aesthetic piece in the set.

Design exercise · Business cards · Peppermint

Kunststoff, mehr als Geschenkkarten

Eine Übung, die Kunststoff in voller Breite ausreizt: Hochzeitseinladungen, Save-the-Dates, Anhänger, Lesezeichen, Platzkarten, Untersetzer, Festivalpässe, Kunden- und Geschenkkarten, aus mattiertem, klarem, spiegelndem, holografischem und getöntem Material.

Business-cards for Print Peppermint design exercise with white ink, spot colour, , raised spot uv foil stamping, frosted, crystal clear, mirror, holographic, smoke and colour-tinted pvc, frosted acrylic and die cut, punched, duplexed two-tone edge.

FolienSilver · 120, Yellow Gold · 101, Rose Gold · 117-3, Deep Copper · 115-2 TechnikenDie Cut, Duplex, Hot Foil, Copper Foil, Gold Foil, Rose Gold Foil, Silver Foil, Raised Spot UV PapiereWhite PVC card stock, Frosted plastic

Die Idee

Kunststoff bedeutet in dieser Branche meist eine Geschenk- oder Mitgliedskarte, in CMYK gedruckt, und damit ist das Thema erschöpft.

Three rules

01Frosted is the workhorse. Frosted for anything text-heavy. It diffuses the background into an even field, so white ink and foil both read. Clear is reserved for piec…
02White ink first, always. An opaque white underprint under every colour pass. On the two-pantone bookmarks that is three passes for two colours, and it is the only w…
03Plastic where paper would fail. Chose applications where the material earns it: waterproof tags, coasters that meet a wet glass, festival passes on a lanyard, a magnet sav…

Unsere selbst gestellte Aufgabe

Die Aufgabe war also, es überall sonst einzusetzen: Einladungen, Anhänger, Lesezeichen, Untersetzer, Platzkarten, Pässe. Einunddreißig Stücke, mit der Regel, dass das Material die richtige Antwort sein musste und kein bloßer Effekt.