Alright, this is nearly final now. I swapped the layout between the two cards, so most of the individual pictures are inside the big PET screen, and the remaining ones are on the same side as the Miis along with the added decorations. This was my original intention as it makes more sense in the context of a greeting card. One side has the personal greetings (or most of them in this case) and the back side has some cute doodles that are slightly related. The tradeoff (and reason I didn't go this way initially) is that your individual pictures had to be slightly downsized in order to fit inside the screen, meaning they are now less than the targeted 150 ppi density, hopefully all will still be legible when printed on A2 paper. I'll leave the original layout posted on this page as well, so people can compare and let me know if you wish to go with the first one instead (unfortunately, this means the current page of this thread is now several tens of megabytes large...).
The theme of the Commodore PET is an attempt to incorporate something of personal value to Iwata: it was the first computer he bought with his own money after graduating from college, and presumably where he spent many hours programming in his spare time.
The references to Kirby, Balloon fight, etc. are all video games Iwata helped develop back when he was a regular employee at HAL.
As far as what's left to do:
Replace the one remaining low quality Mii with a high quality version.
- Compose a banner or image that can fit in one of the empty corners of the second card and goes along with the theme. I'm thinking something as simple as a nice, personal blessing from all GAF, in a colorful font and framed in an appropriate shape, like a yarn flower or something.
Compose something simple for the remaining corner. Doesn't have to be as big and fancy as the banner, just needs to balance out the layout.
As soon as we get these done I'll send the posters to Cheesemeister who has most graciously taken it upon himself to get them printed and delivered.
The following image had to be compressed with lossy compression in order to fit within minus.com's 15 mb size restriction. I used the highest quality JPEG for this, and the version sent to print will be a lossless PNG.
edit: updated with most recent versions, see my post
below for details.