OUR STORY

Lowell Hess... Designer, Paper Engineer and Artist Extraordinaire

Beneath the sheltering branches of a giant maple tree in a small seaside New England town, stands a saltbox home built in 1672. From his studio within, Lowell Hess conceives his award winning pop-up cards.

Where most artists leave off with a completed static illustration or sculpture, the pop-up engineer's creativity is just beginning. Turning each greeting card in his mind, Lowell visualizes not only the final dimensional form his sculpture will take, but also the intricate means by which it will ultimately fold flat - and return again to full dimension when opened - with the help of a rubber band. Lowell has combined knife, brush and paper with whimsical brilliance to create pop-up cards more than rivaling the sophistication of the famous Victorian Age pop-up designer, Lothar Meggendorfer. The source of Lowell's inspiration has been a life immersed in architecture, art, design, family and community.

Every card we produce is a reincarnation of the creative process begun in Lowell Hess' studio. Each card is painstakingly hand assembled for the most important occasions - yours!

The Company

Graphics3 Inc., a Florida corporation, is the proprietary designer, manufacturer and publisher of rubber band activated pop-up greeting cards, calendars and custom pop-up projects. For 34 years we have enabled businesses of every size to create positive relationships, response, awareness and lasting goodwill with pop-up greeting cards during the holidays, pop-up calendars and custom designs for promotional use.

Graphics3's unique expertise is an outgrowth of long involvement in the commercial printing business going back to 1935, where a reputation for successfully producing unusually challenging graphic arts projects was established. In 1976 Lowell Hess evolved the concept of Graphics3's very first rubberband activated pop-up greeting card, which we used as our company Christmas card that year. This card, now a collectible, was so warmly received by our customers that they, in effect, put us in the greeting card business. Each year we add new designs to our collection and showcase all our current designs in our catalogs.

Our popular pop-up polygon desk calendars have been in continuous production since the business was established in 1974. To ensure consistent quality our polygon production is fully automated in our own plant, on machines we developed and patented.

Graphics3 delivers extraordinary pop-up greeting cards and promotional tools that clamor for attention. Graphics3 offers the intersection of long experience, creativity, leading-edge graphic arts capability, and essential production control that add up to clean, professional execution. Careful hand assembly is performed under our supervision. From initial design and prepress to printing and die cutting operations, critical production takes place within our own facilities allowing us to maintain the control necessary to efficiently manufacture high quality products.