Fold of the Week: Playing with Tulip Folds
Happy Thursday! This week, I thought you’d enjoy a tour through Tulip Fold variations. This creative and flexible specialty format has almost no boundaries, so let’s push them!
Here’s what’s great about this episode:
- It’s always interesting to see how a format can be modified to take on entirely different appearances.
- There are five examples to look at today, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The Tulip format is truly a chameleon.
I hope this mini exploration makes you think about other ways to work with and modify the Tulip Fold format. Thanks for watching and subscribing — I appreciate you.
How were these Tulip Folds produced?
Folding Style: Tulip Fold (variations)
Sample #1: Mercury Press plus for Murdock Strategies
Sample #2: Jaguar USA
Sample #3: Design Week Fort Wayne by Wunderkammer Company
Sample #4: PLAY Creative for Southeast Community College
Sample #5: Gemcraft Homes
Finishing: Score, Diecut (samples 3 and 4), Hand Fold
Budget Rating: Moderate
Trish Witkowski is Chief Folding Fanatic at the online community foldfactory.com. She holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in graphic design and a master of science degree in Graphic Arts Publishing from Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Printing Management and Sciences (now the School of Print Media).
An award-winning designer, Trish held the position of creative director for a Baltimore-based agency for six years, and has taught design and desktop publishing at the college level. She has a specialized expertise in the area of folding and is the creator of the FOLDRite™ system, a 2004 GATF InterTech™ Technology Award winner.
Trish frequently publishes articles for graphic arts industry publications, and has written three books on the topic of folding: A Field Guide to Folding, Folding for the Graphic Arts: A Teacher's Handbook, and FOLD: The Professional's Guide to Folding.
