Hi everyone, Dan number six here. I’ve just joined MOO and one of the first questions I have been asked is what pictures I’d like on my business cards. This hasn’t been an easy question to answer, as the possibilities are only limited by how far my imagination is willing to stretch on a Friday afternoon.
I’ve already run through some of the many options, from photos in my Flickr account, to awesome graffiti shots via some amazing line art. I really am struggling.
I need your help!
That’s where you come in – I’m looking for the MOO blog readers for inspiration. If you think you know of the perfect shot for the back of my card, then I’d love to …Continue reading this article…
I started MOO in 2004 with the ambition to create remarkable products. In 2006 we introduced MiniCards, to help you share your virtual life with the real world. Packed with modern innovations, MiniCards were, nevertheless, built on the tradition of Victorian-era calling cards. Hundreds of years after calling cards first appeared, CNET called MiniCards “the Web 2.0 secret handshake”. That made me chuckle: a printed card for the internet generation.
Since then, our little company has grown (we’ve printed close to 100m MiniCards), but our values remain the same. We believe that technology should build on the values of the past – striving to make great things even better, more accessible: for everyone.
That’s what brings us here today.
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I’ve got a head cold today, you’ll probably end up hearing it on the screencast (below) if you watch it.
The reason I’m telling you this is because I’ve been trying to write a blog post on how important it is for Product Managers to strike a balance between creating brand new products and improving the existing ones. About how our new Facebook Cards are an exciting new product and how what we’re releasing today is aimed purely at improving things based on what we’ve heard from our existing customers.
The thing is, I keep re-reading what I’ve written and it sounds like a cold feels, all bunged up and treacly, fuzzy and unclear. So, I think I’m just going to …Continue reading this article…
The graphic design team was sent to the very first Typographic Conference to be held in London. Three jam packed days of back-to-back talks by the design worlds leading typographers and creatives. It was a fabulous fest of type design, ascenders, brackets and other Ponzi designer-y quirk.
We loved the idea of typefaces being designed for a specific purpose and use, such as; typefaces particularly for swearing and others just for telling lies. What would be the best typeface for passing on your details on a small paper card?
Tom Uglow from Google and You Tube’s Creative lab talked about how computers dominate our lives and reminded us that it was only recently we joined …Continue reading this article…
When our friends at Etsy asked if we’d help to get people networking at their first ever summit on small business and sustainability in Berlin, it was a no brainer. Of course we’d like to!
Hello Etsy was held on 17-18 September, and had an aim to be a “hands-on gathering for small business owners who want to connect with their peers, learn the skills to find success and independence, and be part of the movement to build human-scale economies.” What that translated into was two days of talks, ideas, and introductions in an amazing electrical plant turned techno club turned event space, E-Werk.
MOO got involved by providing specially branded Hello Etsy MOO Business Cards …Continue reading this article…
One way to make your designs and Business Cards stand out is a “less is more” approach that some of our creative customers have used to market their personal brand. As usual, these examples merely the tip of your creative iceberg – but here are a few that caught our eye.
Brand new customer Nate Imhoff chose to, in his own words “keep my collateral simple” with these clean, stark cards. Nate explains “I believe good design is good business, and giving my collateral too much personality could detract from my work, which I want to speak for itself.” We think you’ll agree, he gets his message across very well!
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We know that you, our loyal MOOsters, have the Eyes of the Hawk. Therefore, we’re sure it hasn’t escaped your attention that there’s been a proliferation of strange little square black and white codes on packaging, on advertisements and almost anywhere else you can look recently.
These little monochromatic matrices of joy are called QR Codes, and can do all kinds of fun stuff when you aim a smartphone at them. From directing you to a website, dialling a phone to hosting an image, these little guys are proving themselves the new popular kid on the block when it comes to getting your deets into other people’s hands.
We’ve been getting a lot of requests to build some …Continue reading this article…
Second opinions. They’re important. Whether it be that suspect rash, or a new set of eyes on that Orange and Pink polka-dot onesie you were considering as potential office attire, often the voice of another can save you a whole world of pain and possible embarrassment (I know, I learned the hard way with that onesie).
With that in mind, we’ve introduced a new feature which will help you to easily get a second opinion, or even design sign-off, on your MOO Projects. Now, when you are building your cards or stickers, on the Preview checklist stage (and also in the preview pop-up in the cart and Account section), you’ll see a feature to download or email a PDF Proof. …Continue reading this article…
Here at MOO, we’ve always been aware that one of the most important aspects in keeping the good ship MOO sailing high on the seven seas of, erm, Print, is you, our lovely users.
You never fail to be unflinching supporters of what we do, and (being the social media addicts we are) we know what an amazing job you do of spreading the MOO love to your friends, colleagues and business contacts.
Well, we feel that all this effort deserves some reward! So, today we are launching a brand-new Refer a Friend programme. This allows you to earn lots of lovely MOO Money when you send your friends our way, which can then be redeemed for discounts on your purchases at …Continue reading this article…
Using QR codes and Microsoft tags on your Business Cards and MiniCards is the latest way to make it even easier for the people you meet to contact you.
And of course, our creative community (that’s you!) has been in on the secret for ages. Here are just a handful of our favourites:
QR codes
PHP Developer and self confessed “general geek” Ben Dodson uses no ordinary contact details, only a QR code on his Business Cards to help people he meets keep abreast of his many, many online projects and social networking profiles, including Twitter, Delicious, Facebook, and Flickr. Plus, the images show off all of his hobbies!
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