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If you’re taking the DIY route on holiday cards this year but are blanking on what to do, you’re in good company. HOW Twitter follower Ben Lee recently expressed the same and asked whether we had any inspiration for him. Well, we do now. Have a look at the holiday card design below to inspire your creations this year.
Play Up the Type & Lettering
Make type the star like these creatives did:
Design by Vintage Vectors Studio
Design by Mary Kate McDevitt
Editor’s Note: McDevitt is joining Bobby C. Martin Jr., Jennifer Kinon and Veronika Burian as one of Print‘s 2016 Typography & Lettering Awards judges. See more of her work here, and be sure to enter your typefaces, design type-centric pieces or hand lettered projects, before extended deadline Dec. 2, 2016!
Design by Christina Kwiek
Design by qian sun
Design by Simple Thoughts Paper Co
Design by Epic Layers Inc
Design by Stevanus Kurniawan
Go Geometric
Use shapes to get your message across like these designers did:
Design by Yiwen Lu
Design by Wood Campers
Design by Tara Tsang
Tell a Story
Take this opportunity to tell your friends, family or clients a story, as the designers of the pieces below did:
Design by Serg Osokin
Design by Simon Laliberté, Jonathan Rouxel and Mourad
Design by Dylan Mierzwinski
Illustrate Your Heart Out
Take some time to draw the sugarplums dancing around in your head.
Design by Nick Matej
Design by Mork Work
Design by Sam Soulek
Design by Tom Froese
Design by Olivia Moore
Design by Olga Zakharova
Design by David Moyer
Design by Sara Corbett
Design by Hilli Kushnir
Let the Lines Out
Design by Krista Hansen
Design by Daniel Haire
Design by Yiwen Lu
Design by
Buck Tradition
Delight your holiday card recipients with some out-of-the-box thinking, like these creatives did:
Design by xoana herrera
Design by Joseph Veazey [Did you know that Veazey was a 2016 PRINT New Visual Artist?]
Design by Joseph Veazey
Design by Justas Che and Anna Jarmolowicz
Design by Ginger and Milk
This was originally published in How Design.