Envelope task 2

Developing my own coin card

I quite like a technical challenge, and I enjoy problem solving so I decided that the self-promotional stuff I produced for this project needed to be printable on A4 thin card or paper.  I want to be able to produce these without needing to come into Plymouth if necessary.

The coin cards that I had looked at relied on someone picking it up and tipping it to make it spin, but I thought that if I added a curve at the base of the card, all it would need was tipping one edge down to make it move.  I still had to fit the card into the envelope as well as keeping all the artwork with the boundaries that the printer seems to set even if you hit the ‘print 100%’ button.

I made a couple of paper mock-ups and kept adjusting the curve until it worked.  I then made a proper template.

My artwork was actually A3, but this time I managed to scan it in at home in two pieces and join it up.  I tidied the painting and put the outlines on top in Photoshop and then added the text in In Design.  I decided to used the same text , Papyrus, for this part of the project to give some continuity.   I added the template on top and printed the result.

 

The first card took me ages to make,  but by the time I had made my third, I had a routine.  I had a roll of double-sided foam tape that I had used on a previous project, and used that to keep the layers of card apart, as I had seen on the tutorial.   You are supposed to use tow pennies behind the spinning object, but I was afraid that the weight would make the sticky foam come apart, so I used buttons instead.  I now realise that I needed the weight to make it spin better

To finish off, I used the same  star icon for the address label on the envelope and the label on the back . 

I need to do the following things before I send this off to potential customers:

·      I  will use washers rather than buttons behind the spinning object.

·      I will post it off to friends and family and get their feedback as to the condition it arrives in when it goes through the postal service.

·      I will research the equipment and products that are in card-making and hobby-craft shops more (the one in the Pannier market is like an Aladdin’s cave!)

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I have really enjoyed this foray into card engineering and card design.  I  have found it a challenge and have found a couple of folded books that are really attractive, one of which I am using as the base for my Contextual artefact.  This has been a very useful exercise.

 I think this makes a more intriguing book than a zig-zag book, but it would be difficult to add text and make it sequential for people.  A good way to show just images.