Will the Oscar Envelopes Ever Go Digital? Designer Tells All

Actor Tom Hanks clutched an iridescent gold envelope onstage at the Academy Awards two years ago and uttered, "These envelopes are works of art in themselves."

Those eight words from Hanks, the evening's first presenter, praised the newly revamped winners' envelopes from Marc Friedland, whose design debuted that night.

"I felt like I won the Academy Award by him saying that," Friedland told Mashable ahead of this year's Oscars ceremony on Feb. 24. "With all the technology and the pixels, paper still holds a place to convey an emotion and a memory that's going to last a lifetime."

As tech and social media continue to transform the Oscars into a digitally friendly experience for att…
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