Handmade Type Holiday Cards

Created for Graphic Communications 2 Course

March 2023

Concept Narrative

For this project I wanted to use handmade type for all the the graphic. I hand drew the letter for the front of each card. For the type inside, I created an alphabet of uppercase and lowercase letters in the same style but follow a cap-height, x-height with ascenders and descenders guides. Then I image traces all the type and gave everything color in illustrator. I created full scale prototypes that were printed on 80lb card stock, speckle tone paper from French Paper. Which gave each card it own individual tones and uniqueness. I created a dieine for the envelope and printed them on brown and bright white speckle tone paper.