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Greetings Card

2007 (issued)
Artist/Maker
CDT Design (issuer)
Fulmar Colour (printer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

This corporate Christmas card was issued by CDT Design in 2007 and sent to Sir John and Lady Ritblat who subsequently donated it to the Museum. CDT Design was founded in 1979 and works for a range of clients from not-for-profit and arts organisations to blue chip industries. The card is in the form of a nine-page 'booklet' (with no obvious front or back) which viewed from above when open makes a nine-pointed star figure.

Object details

Categories
Advertising
Christmas
Greeting Cards
Object type
Greetings card
Materials and techniques
Inkjet and varnish on card
Card
Varnish
Printed
Brief description
Greetings card, Christmas card by CDT Design, Britain, 2007.
Physical description
Continuous strip of card, white on one side and fluorescent orange on the other, folded upon itself to form a 'booklet' of eleven (un-numbered) pages in a continuous circle with no obvious front or back with the orange sides concealed and the white sides forming the faces of the pages. Greetings, credits and contact details printed in fluorescent orange along the edges of three pages and the CDT logo printed in varnish in the corner of one of the printed pages. Signed in black ink on the same page.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10cm
  • Each page width: 8cm
  • Whole object width: 16cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Printed by Fulmar Colour' (Printed in fluorescent orange along the edge of one page)
  • 'Season's Greetings' (Printed in fluorescent orange along the edge of one page)
  • 'CDT Design T 020 7242 0992 www.cdt-design.co.uk' (Printed in fluorescent orange along the edge of one page)
  • CDT © (Printed/debossed in white/clear varnish in the corner of one page)
  • (Signed in black ink)
Credit line
Given by Lady Ritblat
Summary
This corporate Christmas card was issued by CDT Design in 2007 and sent to Sir John and Lady Ritblat who subsequently donated it to the Museum. CDT Design was founded in 1979 and works for a range of clients from not-for-profit and arts organisations to blue chip industries. The card is in the form of a nine-page 'booklet' (with no obvious front or back) which viewed from above when open makes a nine-pointed star figure.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.842-2008

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Record createdJuly 8, 2010
Record URL
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