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Laser-Cut Halloween Coasters 2011

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Brennan Gilbert

Denver, CO, USA

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Laser-Cut Halloween Coasters 2011
Promotional Halloween themed black & green coasters, laser-cut and sandwiched together.
This past Halloween, I worked with Denver print/laser-cut shop, PUBLIC, to create some limited edition, Halloween themed coasters. Halloween lends itself perfectly for self-promotion, so I wanted to take the opportunity to do something fun and 'spooky' but a bit out of the box.

We decided to make coasters, a perfect gift that can be intricately designed and Halloween specific, but not the type of thing you throw out as soon as October's over.

The coasters are each composed of 3 separate layers:
1. A thick black paper stock for the backing (which was custom engraved depending on who the coasters were sent to).
2. A thin, bright slime green paper stock.
3. A slightly thinner black stock, which was laser-cut so that the green would pop through the negative space.
The three pieces were then glued together for the finished products. I wanted to stay away from typical orange/black color scheme, so went with black/slime green instead, and therefore chose 4 typically green monsters to illustrate: Frankenstein's monster, the creature from the Black Lagoon, a zombie, and a Dia de los Muertos-inspired skeleton.
A very rough, preliminary sketch of one of the coasters.
Vector illustrations, ready for the laser machine.
Finished vector illustrations
Finished coasters
For more of my work, be sure to check out my website (new site coming soon) at: brennangilbert.com, and view PUBLIC's work at: publicletterpress.com

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