Hopefully, 2009 is a year of change for a lot of reasons. We’d like to take the opportunity to bring this idea into our letterpress studio.

Lead Graffiti is printing cards by digging into our recycling pile. With a little help from our friends we have been collecting chipboard box packaging (cereal, soft drinks, etc.) which we then cut up into roughly 7″ x 5″ pieces. We overprint with silver as shown in the images below.

Some of the cards are cut out of larger boxes which allows us to cut the cards without having any of the box’s folds and some include a fold or two. Some of the cardboard is less than perfectly flat. For instance, the bottoms of 12-packs of soft drinks often show the round bottoms / tops, which are actually our favorite ones.

As the board is fairly thick, it may require the regular 42¢ postage.

The backside has a short bit of text about rethinking and a credit line to Lead Graffiti.

$2.00 each while supplies last (about 200 as we write this, and production is continuing).

          7-up

          TLC cereal bars

          Vanilla Wafers

          Wheat Thins

If you live close by, we need your boxes and it would be nice if you would rip apart the glued edge and have the box completely flat.

Even past this New Year season we have some plans for similar cards and would love for you and your friends to save these boxes for us.

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