I wanted to keep it simple with this design, so I created a card featuring one of the most iconic holiday faces. Pop Art is known for using famous consumerist images as a focal point – I wanted to take the famous face of Christmas but abstract it to illegibility. The result is somewhere between Andy Warhol’s aesthetic and Bridget Riley’s Op Art of the 60s.
Freelance designer Sam Stephens grew up in Manchester and studied at Kingston University. Since then, he's done the rounds of London's design studios and worked with clients ranging from the FTSE 100 to independent art fairs and charitable foundations, picking up awards from D&AD, Graphis and the Jerwood Foundation along the way.