How do postcards and greeting cards take shape?
Through idea... as a combination of publisher's initiative,
enterprising activity,
artistic creativity and quality relating to craftsmanship.
Through design... in form of transparencies, in form
of drafted sketches,
in form of calligraphy.
Through reproduction... designs are split up electronically
(scanned) into the
basic colours of blue, yellow, red and black. These colour separations
when printed together in the printing machine result an almost
exact reproduction of the original.
Through printing... Offset-printing is the most common
printing form today. However, for certain editions or/and sophisticated
papers letterpress printing,
silk screening, steel engraving and other techniques are also
used.
Through refinement... printed cards are further refined
with, for example,
hot foil embossing, blind embossing, vircotype, die cut, glittering
etc..
Greeting cards are protected by an outer covering of Polypropyethylene
bags
or by boxes, both of which can be recycled..
What
is the special meaning
of greeting cards
and postcards?
How do postcards and greeting cards take shape?
Greeting Cards
in the change of times
The
history of open to send postcards
An exhibition of
postcards during the "Paperworld" in Frankfurt 1999
The
development
of both the postcard
and the picture postcard
Sympathy
cards
from all over the world
An exhibition during
the "Paperworld" in Frankfurt 1998
The official measurements for envelops in Germany
The
AVG an the protection
of environment