Applications

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Stationery

Lesson 3 of 12 in Applications.

6. Designing your Business Stationery | Skills · Canva
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Stationery is the smallest application and the one most identities are judged on first, because it is what gets photographed. That is a poor reason to design it and a real reason to design it well.

card · the markand a nameletterhead ·room to writeenvelope · seenfrom across a deskthe same rules, three budgets of space
A card, a letterhead and an envelope holding the same system at three sizes.
An ink drawing of a studio front desk with a small out-tray of envelopes and a receptionist handing over a business card, below a high shelf of dusty sealed boxes of letterhead.
At a studio front desk, a few invoices and cards go out every day, while boxes of printed letterhead gather dust on the shelf above. Design what actually leaves the building.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    A studio hands the client a beautiful letterhead PDF and nothing else. What has the client not actually been given?

    • A file the office can type a letter into, in the software it already uses
    • A print-ready version with crop marks and bleed for the printer
    • A colour breakdown of the letterhead in both coated and uncoated inks
    • A licence covering use of the brand typeface in outgoing post
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Still legally useful. Contracts, notices and anything on a solicitor's desk.”

    • Transactional email
    • Letterhead
    • Dark mode inversion
    • Sightline
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Largely gone. Worth checking before designing one.”

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