Staying sane

Client: Dravkulki
Project: Custom lettering
Year: 2020

This awesome brand is run by an even awesome lady who designs, prototypes, and manufactures these super cool accessories made out of plywood. She approached us with the proposal to collaborate on a limited edition series of her cardholders – compact and minimal substitutes for a conventional wallet with engraved fronts and backs. Needless to say, we were instantly on board with the idea.

The first series is strongly influenced by the pandemic and the need to lift our spirits in any way possible. Together we came up with a few inspiring words each of which aims to serve as a motivational message every time you look at the cardholder. The lettering pieces we worked on depict the concepts of FREEDOM, BALANCE, PATIENCE, and DON'T PANIC. These are intended for sale in Bulgaria, so the designs are written in Cyrillic script. For all of you unable to read or understand the engravings, we added transcription and translation of the word on the back.

The second series is somewhat tied to the depiction of Freedom from the first series. Here we started with a design we had already made for our Bezier Club clothing line – PIRIN, а mountain range in southwestern Bulgaria. That started the Bulgarian mountains series and along came RILA, RODOPA, and VITOSHA. All favourite places of ours with Vitosha being the closest to us – a half an hour's drive from the studio. For all of you mountain lovers, we added a topographic map of each of the highest peaks together with transcription and translation of its name.

Be sure to have a look at all of DRAVKULKI's products.
Photography: DRAGA PHOTOGRAPHY