Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

As part of a recent site update, Foreign Policy Design Group added Darryl Jingwen Wee’s busi­ness cards to their port­fo­lio, whose unique look and pro­duc­tion process caught my eye:

‘Trans’ is a Latin noun or pre­fix, mean­ing ‘across’, or ‘beyond’. Designed for a trans­la­tor and writer for the arts, these cards reflect the process of the voca­tion and per­son­al­ity of their owner. Published arti­cles by the writer were taken and turned into hand­made paper, imbu­ing the essence of his craft into his iden­tity. Contact details were then hand-printed onto each indi­vid­ual card using a trans­fer marker. Just as a translator’s role is that of bridg­ing lan­guage bound­aries, this process of trans­fer­ence from one medium to another is reit­er­ated in how each card is made. Every card is hand­made, and there­fore beau­ti­fully idiosyncratic.