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As Tiffany Meyers observes in her overview of the 100 winners, one can’t peg 2009 as the year of any specific color or typographic convention. But the winning projects are reflective of today’s increasingly diverse design discipline. In fact, one has to wonder if there is any longer such a thing as a design discipline—in light of today’s fast-changing and even amorphous practice, the word discipline seems a little out of place.
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92 HORNALL ANDERSON
Offering the tactile pleasure of engraving on fine paper, the elegant little
Hornall Anderson holiday card is hand-scored into a French fold and contains
doodles both nice and naughty. Its purpose was to amuse.
It was also part of an integrated experience with an online location,
www.hadw.com/holiday, where recipients could go to create
and virtually post a card of their own. There were actually two
cards, admits designer Jana Nishi: naughty and naughtier. “Everyone’s
sensitivities differ,” she says. Both versions of the card share
the same first two contrasting spreads: a snow angel on one page
and tire tracks running through it on the opposite. A traditional
Christmas stocking is contrasted by a fishnet stocking. “However,”
Nishi says, “the last spread of the nice version features a gift tag on
one page and the recipient’s name scratched out, indicating ‘regifting,’
on the opposite.” That same spread on the naughty version
(which I got) shows a nice, ordinary snowman on one page, and
on the opposite, the same snowman with his coal-eyes and carrot-
nose relocated, as Nishi points out, “ to a ‘different’ part of his
body.” It was left to each project manager to decide which clients
got what version. by Romy Ashby
Hornall Anderson | Creative Director: Lisa Cerveny | Art Directors: Jana Nishi, Michael Connors | Designers: Jana Nishi, Michael Connors, Belinda Bowling,
Andrew Wicklund, Hans Krebs | Illustrators: Andrew Wicklund, Hans Krebs | Production: Paula Cox | Copywriter: Pamela Mason Davey | Printer: Golden Pacific Embossing | Client: Hornall Anderson | Contact: www.hornallanderson.com
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