Team Set ShowcaseA giveaway set, and a few made to be kept
An airshow hands things out. That is the job: someone walks the flight line, meets a pilot, and leaves with something in their pocket that still means something the following week. Leesburg wanted eight cards covering the acts on the bill, printed deep enough that nobody at the gate had to be rationed.
So the run is 9,432 cards across eight designs. Every card shares one back, which is where the airshow lockup and the sponsor marks live, so a handful pulled from a box reads as one set rather than eight unrelated pieces.
The fourteen slabs are the other half of the job, and they are not cards taken out of the giveaway. Three of the acts, Jersey Jerks, The Flying Circus and Warbird Thunder, got their own holographic cards printed separately on top of the run, then sealed and hand numbered so the performers had something the crowd could not get.
Print details
- ✓Standard 2.5" x 3.5" trading card, portrait
- ✓8 designs, 9,432 cards across the run
- ✓9,446 pieces in total: 9,432 giveaway cards plus 14 holographic
- ✓14pt C2S stock, printed 60 up, head to head
- ✓One shared back across all eight designs
- ✓Full bleed art, front and back
- ✓14 separate holographic cards, printed on top of the run and hand numbered by act
- ✓Printed and finished by Trading Card Memories
The eight
Seven performers and the airport itself. Each front carries the act, the aircraft in the air, and a short biography down the base. Tap a card to turn it over.
Tap any card to inspect it in 3D — drag to rotate, flip to see the back.
One back, four marks
The back is the only surface every card in the set shares, which makes it the only place a sponsor is guaranteed to be seen no matter which card someone walks away with. Leesburg used it for four: Leesburg America 250, David Schultz Airshows, Toth Financial and Kuhn Jet Center.
It carries the airshow wordmark at the top and leaves the lower half to the sponsor marks, so the card still reads as a collectible from the front and settles the obligations on the reverse.
What Leesburg brought
The set is built almost entirely from material the airshow already had. Our part was the card, not the content.
The set was designed by the airshow. Our part was taking it to press: imposition, printing, packout and finishing, plus a separate holographic run for the fourteen slabbed cards.
Which acts were on the bill, and which of them warranted a card. Seven performers plus Leesburg Executive Airport, which hosts the show.
Air to air and flight line photography of each act, supplied by the airshow and credited on the card face.
A few lines on each pilot, printed down the base of the front rather than buried on the back where the sponsors sit.
Four sponsor logos for the shared back, supplied as artwork with their placement agreed before the press form was built.