The Card Designer Highlight is a collection that includes impartial makers whose greeting playing cards yow will discover in Paper Supply shops. Meet and be impressed by a brand new designer each month on our weblog!
Begin the brand new 12 months with inspiration from the Quilling Card Co. and have a good time our featured card designer of the month for January. As we start our Card Designer Collection for 2024, discover out what occurs while you observe your desires with a particular look into the high quality artwork of quilling, the abilities of the design crew and artisans in Vietnam in addition to enjoyable information that embrace the Guinness Guide of World Information since their debut on our weblog in 2020.
How did the Quilling Card Co. start?
A local of Vietnam, Quilling Card co-founder Huong Wolf had beforehand labored in Advertising
all through Southeast Asia and the US for big firms reminiscent of Unilever and L’Oreal. After
years working in the direction of another person’s dream, she determined to go away the trade and pursue her
entrepreneurial spirit and keenness for the artwork of quilling. In 2011 Huong and her husband Raphael
took this ardour and turned it right into a flourishing greeting card firm – bringing this lovely artwork
type into the properties of admirers all around the globe.
How do you and your crew draw inspiration for the cardboard collections?
The inspiration for every quilled card design can come from nature, wildlife, symbols, holidays and
events, developments, and even buyer strategies!
What does a day behind the scenes on the Quilling Co. appear to be for designers and makers?
The design crew within the US may be very collaborative and works on all kinds of artistic tasks on a
every day foundation together with the creation of art work and designs for our greeting playing cards, however you can too discover
the crew working within the photograph studio creating imagery and movies to showcase our quilled playing cards and
items on the web site and our social platforms and far more! The artistic crew at Quilling Card
balances every day the creation of recent designs and product growth with all different artistic wants of
the enterprise from commerce exhibits, to digital and print promoting, catalog updates and every little thing else
in between!
Each the Design Group in Vietnam and the US correspond every day by platforms reminiscent of Asana to
share new artworks and quilling samples backwards and forwards to develop new designs.
Our quillers in Vietnam are extremely expert artisans that work on all totally different quilled merchandise from
greeting playing cards to ornaments, and our large-scale artist collection. They’re really masters of the craft that
carry our quilled artworks to life. Every quiller actually has a favourite design to quill however they’re all
effectively versed within the craft to quill any design wanted. We not too long ago did a video collection with a number of of our
artisans known as “Meet the Quillers” that takes you behind the scenes into a few of their every day lives.
You’ll be able to view that video collection on our youtube channel right here.
Do you have got a most well-liked medium?
Paper after all!
Inform us about what makes your playing cards totally different. (model, course of, technique, design, and many others)
Every Quilling Card design is handmade by an artisan at our workshop situated in Vietnam. Quilling is
a high quality artwork that, to do effectively, requires a lot observe and endurance. We practice every of our artisans to quill
at an awfully excessive degree. Potential quillers full 6 months of intensive coaching so as
to develop the extent of ability essential to craft every quilled card. Throughout this time, they be taught the
“alphabet” of quilled shapes used to make a Quilling Card. Total, it takes half a 12 months to develop the
degree of capacity essential to craft the quilled playing cards you give to your pals and family members! After
efficiently graduating from our coaching program, the artisan can expertly quill every design on the
highest degree of workmanship, faithfully and constantly. On common, it takes one hour to quill every
card.
What does your artistic course of appear to be?
The designs for our greeting playing cards can originate in many alternative kinds, generally a watercolor
portray, a digital illustration, or a coloured pencil sketch. The artistic crew then fine-tunes and edits
artworks in digital packages reminiscent of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. As soon as the art work is
accomplished, it’s despatched to our crew of designers in Vietnam to emulate right into a quilled pattern.
Each card begins with a printed art work that’s then reimagined into a hand-crafted quilling design.
Utilizing a quilling pen, the artisans will thread strips of kishu paper (a high-quality, Japanese paper)
by the instrument and coil it round to create a coil that’s then manipulated into the form desired,
and glued onto the cardboard over the printed art work.
There are sometimes a number of drafts of each the printed artworks and quilled software shared between
the design crew and grasp quillers till a closing model is accepted. As soon as accepted, the grasp
quillers make a closing manufacturing pattern for the opposite quillers to observe.
Every design is rigorously created and crafted with love and care by our extraordinary crew of
designers, illustrators, and artisans. The event of every design is really distinctive in the place the
inspiration originated, the artistic execution, and its rounds of enhancements resulting in the ultimate
design. While you give a Quilling Card, you aren’t simply giving a greeting card, you might be gifting a
handmade murals.
What’s the Quilling Card Co. most pleased with as a enterprise?
Quilling Card is proud to be a Verified Honest Commerce Federation Member. We’ve targeted on offering
our artisans in Vietnam with honest pay, secure working circumstances, and high quality advantages. This initiative is on the forefront of our enterprise and particularly near, our founder and CEO, Huong’s coronary heart as she is ready to give again to her dwelling nation and group.
Moreover, on April eighth, 2022, Quilling Card was awarded two Guinness World Report Titles for “Most Individuals Quilling Concurrently” and “Largest Quilling Paper Mosaic (Picture)”. The mosaic picture was a recreation of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Evening” and stood 15 toes tall and 19 toes large. It was assembled by piecing collectively 285 1×1’ quilled tiles. This outstanding work of quilled artwork was solely made attainable by the tireless dedication and collaborative effort of our unbelievable US and Vietnam crew members. This undertaking was a defining second for Quilling Card to have a good time the 10-year anniversary of the enterprise and empower us to proceed to succeed in for the celebs. Try the video right here.
Any enjoyable information or particular tidbits you wish to share about your self, the crew or the enterprise?
Following the success of our Guinness World Report Titles we launched our Artist Collection Assortment.
Starting with Starry Evening after all, we had such a optimistic response we’ve now prolonged the
quilled Artist Collection Assortment to incorporate a complete of 16 famend artworks in three sizes together with
Playing cards, Artwork, and Gallery sizes. The Artist Collection Assortment continues to ‘wow’ admirers and has a lot
extra potential we can not wait to discover.
Discover The Quilling Card assortment, reminiscent of Quilling Colourful Script Birthday Card, Quilling Ornamental Swans Love Card,and Quilling Pink Roses Greeting Card at your native retailer or on-line at papersource.com. For extra inspiration and behind-the-scenes motion, observe @quillingcard on IG.
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