PCB Coaster Nutcracker & Christmas Candy

Decorative nutcracker dolls began being popularized outside of Europe after the Second World War, when numerous American soldiers stationed in Germany came home to the US with German nutcrackers as souvenirs. Further popularization came from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, a ballet adaptation of Hoffmann's story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. The ballet, became a favorite holiday tradition across the US and helped make nutcracker dolls a Christmas decoration and a seasonal icon across Western culture.

This PCB coaster featured a Nutcracker on one side and a Christmas Candy on the other side. The artist brilliantly combines the materials used to fabricate printed circuit boards (PCB) such as copper, immersion gold, soldermask and silkscreen to create art. The Nutcracker and Christmas Candy are drawn using white silkscreen traces. Immersion gold is used to highlight the red color from the soldermask.