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

Le plastique, au-delà de la carte cadeau

Un exercice qui pousse le plastique dans toutes ses applications : faire-part de mariage, save the date, étiquettes, marque-pages, marque-places, sous-verres, pass de festival, cartes de fidélité et cartes cadeaux, en plastique dépoli, transparent, miroir, holographique et teinté.

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.

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

L'idée

Dans ce métier, le plastique désigne en général une carte cadeau ou une carte de membre, imprimée en CMJN, et la discussion s'arrête là.

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…

Le cahier des charges que nous nous sommes fixé

L'exercice consistait donc à le décliner partout ailleurs : invitations, étiquettes, marque-pages, sous-verres, marque-places, laissez-passer. Trente et une pièces, avec une règle : la matière devait être la bonne réponse, pas un gadget.