The envelope, please . . .

The moments breathlessly awaited by millions watching the Oscars just became a little more beautiful. The envelope containing the winners of the Oscar categories has been redesigned by Marc Friedland.

The envelopes used to be plain, white, and ordinary. But now they are iridescent gold paper with watermarks of images of Oscar, lined with red paper embossed with gold Oscars. The new envelopes are also designed to open easily to relieve our anticipation as quickly as possible. Here's the link to the news story.