EW's Plastic Oscar Invites

March 26, 2003

Entertainment Weekly used cool clear plastic squares to invite celebrities, journalists and Time Inc. execs to the mag's ninth annual Academy Awards viewing party at Elaine's. The invites were printed with gold-colored ink and arrived in metallic envelopes. (To see a similar take, check out the sleek invitations created by Wink and the Susan Magrino Agency for last November's Vespa store launch party.)

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