Holiday Wrapping Paper

This holiday season, we gifted our clients, collaborators, and friends with something we hoped they could use: custom-designed, silkscreened wrapping paper. For the past three years, Aerogram Studio has been the international design partnership between Vera Henco in Düsseldorf and Tess Golden in New York. Our wrapping paper celebrates the differences between these two great cities with a series of icons—the light blue paper features Düsseldorf, and the dark blue, New York. We sent out our paper with a glossary which explained the abstract icons in more detail.

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We sprinkled the design full of cute details, like the taxi cab accident in New York (above), and the empty beer mug in Düsseldorf (below).

NEW YORK GLOSSARY

1 – New York is home to many of the world’s most iconic skyscrapers 2 – Taking up more than 843 acres, Central Park is larger than the principality of Monaco 3 – Our iconic avenues are some of the most famous in the world 4 – What would any New York experience be without a warm bagel? 5 – Our streets hold more than 13,000 Yellow Taxis 6 – The Statue of Liberty and her flame torch look out over New York Harbor 7 – You can find a hot dog vendor on nearly every corner 8 – The subway serves 1.7 billion riders annually 9 – There are close to 40,000 subway grates on New York City sidewalks. Approximately every twenty months, someone falls through one.

DÜSSELDORF GLOSSARY
1 – The beautiful Rhine River 2 – Put your red nose on and celebrate Karneval with us 3 – Or what about a glass of our famous Altbier? 4 – Düsseldorf has a total of seven bridges crossing the Rhine 5 – In Oberkassel as well as the Altstadt there are pretty old houses 6 – Put some aged Gouda on a piece of ray bread and we call it Halve Hahn (lit. half a chicken) 7 – There are more than 6500 Japanese living in Düsseldorf, hence we have some lovely sushi here 8 – Did you know Düsseldorf is the only city nation wide that has an extra yellow traffic light for pedestrians? 9 – And that we are the dog friendliest city in Germany?

Our wrapping paper was silkscreened in Brooklyn by Kayrock Screenprinting.