1978: An exercise in hand-made graphic design.

In 1978, my parents drove back from England to Lahore, Pakistan because they didn’t have enough money to ship all their stuff back and fly. They took great pictures along the way, and now that I’m back in Lahore, I’m trying to share this wonderful trip of theirs with the rest of the world.

I took 450 of the slides they had, got them scanned from Bhatti Photographers at the highest dpi they offer. I sifted through them and picked two just for experimentation- I wanted to test out designs for a postcard. I then designed the front and back- rushed over to Instaprint in Gulberg, had them proofed out on a single sheet, and came home to cut them individually for this first pass.

I think they’ve come out great- I’ve never been so excited about something that was produced before I was born.