Holiday Cards
Credits
- Charles Goslin 53 Designer
- Charles Goslin 53 Illustrator
Format
Media
- paper 1093
Techniques
Dimensions
9 × 9 in
Locations Made
- United States 527
Goslin designed his own holiday card every year. Each had a different theme. The cards were oversized, most measuring 9 inches square.
Goslin was an instructor of Graphic Design and Illustration at Pratt Institute from 1966–2007. He was a highly influential instructor having taught over 1,000 students. The captions to each piece describe how the cards utilize powerful images, played against intricate graphics in Goslin’s unique approach.
Holiday card using a Christmas wreath playing off against holiday imagery.
Holiday card that uses a band-aid. This was saying that Christmas is a way of healing. Various imagery that related to the events of this particular year appear above and below the band-aid symbol.
This is a carton of Egg Nog with Christmas imagery pouring out of it.
The image is of a snow plow with Christmas symbols being blown out of it.
Holiday card using an hour glass, size was 12 inches square, though his other holiday cards were 9 inches square. Goslin designed this card for his design office to send to clients when he was in partnership with David Barnett, another designer and his former student. The text refers to this being the last holiday of the year. The graphic elements in the card symbolize all the holidays of the year, with December 25 being the last one to pour out of the top of the hour-glass.