
Featured Format Spotlight: The Star Cross Fold
Folding Style: Star Cross Fold Subcategory: Cross Folds Level: Intermediate Uses: Marketing Collateral, Event Promotion, Product Announcements Here’s a creative variation of the Cross Fold—the Star Cross. Cross Folds have panels that fold into the center from...
Inspired Folding Designs: Mohegan Sun New Year’s Eve Invitation
Some of the folded samples in my collection deserve their own blog posting. This is one of those samples. It was designed as a creative folded invitation to a New Year’s Eve party at Mohegan Sun Casino and Resort in Connecticut. Mohegan Sun hired...
One Creative Folded Invitation, Done Two Ways
A few weeks ago at the Foldfactory PO Box there was a bright green envelope from my friends at Oliver Printing Company in Twinsburg, Ohio. In it, there were two creative folded event invitations that utilized the same folding style, however the...
An Ode to My Mentor
I get this question all the time: “How does someone end up with a career in folding?” I usually tell a quick story about how it all started with a thesis project at RIT in Rochester, New York, and grew from there. However, what most people don’t...
When should you score a folded brochure?
I don’t think there’s a single designer who hasn’t, at some point in their career, rolled the dice and opted to save a few bucks by choosing not to score their folded brochure when the printer recommended it. The lucky ones get through it...
These Folding Designs Have Heart
February is all about love, so in that spirit, I thought it would be fun to feature my all-time favorite heart-themed folded invitations. The heart is a universal symbol that has been “done” a million ways, so to be truly original with the heart is...