As Christmas starts to appear on the horizon and is set to look very different for many of us this year, it is tempting to make a big impression.
As large-scale trade prints are our speciality, we decided to look into the largest greetings cards ever, and needless to say, it left a big impression.
In August 2017, Provident Housing Limited, an Indian property developer based in Bengaluru, wanted to go big with their card to celebrate Independence Day.
The card, which wished a happy Independence Day to all Indians, was just over 18m tall and 13m wide, and was nearly the size of a tennis court, which is definitely one way to get noticed.
Before this, we saw two huge attempts by major companies to celebrate Mother’s Day. Nestlé NIDO unveiled a card in 2014 made up of over 40,000 drawings by children across the Middle East to say how much they loved their mum.
The next big attempt was by Proctor & Gamble in 2016. To celebrate the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games that year, P&G made the world’s longest greetings card mosaic in the UAE, that measures 110 metres long and celebrates the mothers of Olympic athletes.
On the other hand, the National Physical Laboratory created the world’s smallest Christmas Card, which measures a tiny 15 x 20 micrometres (0.0015cm x 0.0020cm) which used a platinum-coated piece of silicon nitride.
It was so small that during an attempt to take a picture of the card using an electron microscope, it fired off the stand and ended up lost in the microscope itself.
