We're amped to be heading to SXSW this year, so amped in fact that we went ahead and silk screened and letterpress printed coasters to pass out and leave around the various bars and parties that happen in Austin during the conference. Ben Barry, a communication designer on our team, created the beautiful design based on our Facebook Design logo. We thought about just having them printed, but since we had the resources in house, we decided to take on the project ourselves in some of our off hours.

In order to get these printed, we first silk screened the arrow design on the front of the coasters.

Ben silk screening

After that we went through the laborious process of hand letterpress printing the actual design in black ink, and then finally we silk screened the back of the coaster with our url (facebook.com/design).

The letterpressThe blue ones

In order to make it a bit more game like, and to hang out with more great designers, we created some special orange versions where if you find one we'll buy you a drink.

The orange ones

In the spirit of SXSW and new ways of doing new interactive things, we've also teamed up with Gowalla. They have created digital versions of both of these coasters in their universe. These digital coasters will be littered around various social locations in Austin. When you find one of the special orange ones you'll be able to redeem them by finding one of us. Just like the real coasters.



So, if you're lucky enough to find one of these orange coasters, these are the smiling faces you'll want to find in order to redeem your prize:

Kate Aronowitz
Adam Mosseri
Ben Blumenfeld
Mark Bixby
Lee Byron
Christina Holsberry
Alexandre Roche
Julie Zhuo
Rob Goodlatte
Tom Watson

We hope you enjoy the game, and we're looking forward to seeing and meeting many of you and hopefully having some great design discussions over a tasty beverage.