Monday, July 25, 2011

Christmas cards and CS Lewis.

I'm designing Christmas cards at work. Yes, it is very off-season, but such is the printing schedule. Not to worry; it's the end of July, and any day now the shops will start selling tinsel and fruitcake.

I wondered if there was a nice quote from CS Lewis to inspire a Christ-focused card design, but instead I found this. Note the comments as well.
"In the middle of winter when fogs and rains most abound they have a great festival which they call Exmas, and for fifty days they prepare for it in the fashion I shall describe. First of all, every citizen is obliged to send to each of his friends and relations a square piece of hard paper stamped with a picture, which in their speech is called an Exmas-card. But the pictures represent birds sitting on branches, or trees with a dark green prickly leaf, or else men in such garments as the Niatirbians believe that their ancestors wore two hundred years ago riding in coaches such as their ancestors used, or houses with snow on their roofs. And the Niatirbians are unwilling to say what these pictures have to do with the festival, guarding (as I suppose) some sacred mystery. And because all men must send these cards the market-place is filled with the crowd of those buying them, so that there is great labour and weariness."

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