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Rotary Club of Gurgaon South City
Cork · a thank-you · District 3011
The wheel, pressed into cork.
A Rotary club wanted 200 gratitude gifts that would sit on desks for years. We made a cork-bound diary and a set of cork coasters, with the Rotary wheel debossed rather than printed, so it is in the material and not on it.
- Client
- Rotary Club of Gurgaon South City, District 3011
- Pieces
- Cork diary, A5 · cork coasters in a cork holder
- Finish
- The wheel debossed into the cork; a printed label on the kraft box
- Occasion
- A gratitude gift from club members, “Unite for Good” year
- Quantity
- 200
Why deboss, not print.
Cork has a grain of its own, a scatter of light and dark. Ink sits on top of that and fights it. A heated die pressed into the cork darkens the wheel and sinks it a fraction of a millimetre, and the grain runs straight through it. It reads as one object.
A thank-you gift should look like it was made for the person, not ordered for them. A pressed mark does that; a sticker does not.
A mark in the material, not on it.
The pieces, from the collection.
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