When the wonderful ladies of Kuulakka General Partnership are not writing concepts, scripts and copytexts - they come up with their own company Christmas parties.

The unlikely theme of this year's gettogether was Hawaiian-Russian beach party.

Photo above was taken on 1961 presidential holiday by photojournalist Kalle Kultala. From left to right, Ambassador R.R. Seppälä, Max Jakobson, President Kekkonen and foreign minister Ahti Karjalainen have just received a "note" from Soviet Union, much to their chagrin.

The concept of cutting parts of an image out ouf its background is not unambiguous in English. I've heard at least "masking", "outlining" and "silhouetting" used for this purpose. In German, the corresponding verb is "freistellen" and in Finnish "syvätä".

This all will soon be just semantics as, thanks to globalisation, we'll shortly be out of jobs there. There's a company in Copenhagen, through which we can outsource all our "clipping path" tasks to specialists in Philippines. This solution is fittingly to be found on lazymask.com.

Via Nordic Design Blog.