Invitations

The colorful boxed invitation from Southern Fried Paper puts an artful twist on a racing ribbon. Pricing is available upon request.

Give guests a blast from the past with a classic viewfinder from Image3D. Pricing is from $375 for the master reel setup and from $3.25 for each additional reel, plus packaging and viewfinder costs.

A promotional mailing for insurance software company Aplifi included the company’s logo on the front, along with a magnifier so recipients could read the detailed product information. According to a report in Deliver Magazine, the mailings resulted in a 30 percent increase in Web traffic.

Designed in-house, the multidimensional accordion-style invitation for Liberty's "Christmas in July" preview was inspired by a trip to the London Transport Museum; each vignette was a train platform that would start your journey aboard "The Liberty Express."

For his spring 2013 Burberry Prorsum show, designer Christopher Bailey celebrated the skyline of London—both the brand’s home base and where it stages its shows—by recreating it in laser-cut pop-up form.

For Bloomberg's White House Correspondents' Dinner after-party in 2008, guests were sent a device that would only reveal the party information when recipients scanned their fingerprints. As an added element of security, each credit card-size piece only responded to the fingerprint of the intended invitee.

A nod to the jungle-inspired collection revealed at the spring 2013 show, Kenzo sent out a tin box containing a branded mini survival kit for the fashionable great outdoors. The invitation itself could be tied to the carabineer as a flotation device.

Invitations to Miu Miu’s three-night-only private members’ club at the Café Royal in London came in the form of an accordion file box with a magnetic closure that contained a full protocol rundown of the venue’s offerings, complete with a membership card.