Posts Tagged ‘Folding’

Another 60 Second Super Cool Fold of the Week

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

Here is the 112th Super Cool Fold of the Week from Trish at FoldFactory. Watch as she teaches you how to create the fun Assymetrical Gate Fold piece with a perfed postcard. It was originally designed by Cayenne Creative Group for International Paper to promote their Elements line.

Here’s another Super Cool Fold of the Week!

Monday, July 25th, 2011

Direct mailers seem to get more and more innovative every week and create digitally printed pieces that I couldn’t even fathom on my own. This week’s fold is no exception. It is a hexagon-shaped fold that unfolds to a larger hexagon. The catch to successfully recreating this piece is to ensure that each mini hexagon is slightly smaller than the one before it. Check it out!

This week’s fold comes from Capital Printing Company in Austin, TX and was created for Texas State.

Inverted, Broadside Gate Fold. Super-Cool.

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

The super-cool fold this week is from Monadnock Paper. It is a beautifully printed piece with very well executed finishing. Take a look.

Make Rectangles More Interesting

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, Harvey Hirsh posted that we should “Stop Selling Rectangles.” He offered some great ideas and insights – but if rectangles are what you’ve got, you can still make them more interesting with folding and finishing. Here is one of the super-cool folds from the foldfactory.com archives. Let me know what you think and stay tuned for more!

Asymmetrical Triple Parallel with Short Foldout: