Christmas idea starters

Sometimes it can be hard to think of Christmas Cards (especially when the holiday season is months away). So we present a few ideas to get your creative minds sparking.

Introduce the relatives

Edelman gave the young nieces and nephews of staff the well-known poem Twas the night before Christmas a well-known poem to illustrate. Even the mice had santa hats.

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Christmas mice

Intricate Folding

This New Year’s Card looks difficult to make, but is actually very simple to fold (once you get the hang of it).

New Year's Card

Explore the company network

PPR took a look across its Australasian network with this advent calendar. Hidden behind each December date was a Christmas tradition hailing from one of their office locations.

PPR Christmas card

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Teach a lesson

Thirst Studios took the opportunity to teach its clients some home-truths about user experience.

Topical Christmas

The front of Futurebrand’s card features some of the most talked about topics of 2010, and again in 2011.

Futurebrand Christmas 1

Futurebrand Christmas 2


Font fascination

Last but not least, we explored one of our favourite new typeface purchases to create a typographic card in 2012.

Christmas card

We’d love to talk Christmas with you. Give us a call to pencil it in.

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