Qipao Stationary Cards


Prints in action: image from Super Holland Design, Actar 2008

Title Qípáo Stationary Cards
Year 2005
Size A5 + various
Technique Screenprint, 4 colour on heavy cardstock
Various cuts from a 70 x 50 cm printing plate


Shanghai calender girls from early 19th century Shanghai wearing sexy qípáo or cheongsam dresses. Photographed in Beijing at Chinese Graphic Design in the 20th Century: A Documentary exhibition at Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA).

Silver, opaque white and black inks on white cardstock (without the additional pink)…

See also Printdesign for Orson + Bodil

Just a relatively quick way to print with compliments and business cards…

November 28th, 2005
, Posted in Printing