birthday card!

(back cover)                                                     (front cover)

  (inside left)                                                      (inside right) 

(the crop mark in the middle serves as a scoring guide,

as this is a card that's to be folded into half)

    (click to enlarge)

 

  This a birthday card that we design for Zheng's birthday earlier this month.  Initially we thought of doing the typically card with a picture/illustration of a cake with candles on it or a nicely wrapped present but then it's too common, might as well just go buy 1 if that's the design we're doing.  We decided to try designing a birthday card that's entirely typographic & above is the outcome, the 1 on top is the cover design & the 1 below is the inside design.  The various tones of blue(/cyan) were used for its cool, calming (lighter/softer shades) & engaging, exhilarating (brighter/brilliant shades) properties.  We used a lot of 19 as it was her 19th birthday & to emphasize that the 19th chapter of her life is about to begin, as the phrase " a new chapter beckons" suggest.  The other numbers in the light tone is to symbolize the previous years that has passed.  Whereas the arrows represents the movement/progress in life, life is not stagnant.  The phrases used in the inside are self-explainatory, they reflect on what we believe birthdays or birthday celebrations are all about.

  Now, we are considering the possibility of designing birthday cards for our friends from now on, with this as the first & starting point.  It will be a challenge for us, to come up with different designs for every birthday, it sounds very tempting & fun plus we get to experiment with designs, styles, colours & layouts, so let's us see who's birthday is coming up next, haha.