How do you handle keep the move, change the ground?

Copy the palette and stock and you have made a derivative. The ref outlined cream envelopes in navy, green, red. Here charcoal envelopes with fluorescent edges.

How do you handle one finish does the talking?

Two finishes on a notecard compete; the eye has nowhere to land. One primary finish carries the piece; type and stock stay quiet around it.

Design exercise · Notecards · Peppermint

Edge-printed envelopes

The ref outlined cream envelopes in navy, green, red. Here charcoal envelopes with fluorescent edges.

Notecards for Print Peppermint design exercise with four a6 notecards with matching envelopes, 32pt charcoal uncoated, the envelope flaps and card edges printed with a 2 mm border in fluorescent orange, fluorescent pink, chartreuse and white; a tiny lowercase phrase on each card: "oh hey", "guess what", "just because", "you're cool".

TechniquesPainted Edge StocksColorplan Dark Grey

Two rules

01Keep the move, change the ground. The ref outlined cream envelopes in navy, green, red. Here charcoal envelopes with fluorescent edges.
02One finish does the talking. One primary finish carries the piece; type and stock stay quiet around it.

Edge-printed envelopes, three inks — macro, by Print Peppermint — The fluorescent orange border along the envelope flap edge against charcoal.

Start from these materials

Same paper, foil and finish, locked in — nothing of this piece artwork comes with it.

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