Archive for October 24th, 2007

Business Card Mock-Ups

Published by -MiKe- on October 24, 2007 in Photography. 1 Comment

Ok, upswing time.

I purchased my first set of business cards this weekend. Not only did no one around and close to me see this coming, neither did I!

I happened across a blog entry, somewhere in the etherweb, about memorable business cards, and it got me thinking. For years I have had “business cards” through some entity or another (either through the beach, or more recently, through Miss Maine), but I have never had one to call my own. Until now.

This weekend I put my foot down. This is what I want to do, and I am doing it. You can’t ignore it now, CoverThis Photography is out there, and it’s going to get you.

Below are some mock-ups of the business cards I designed, and will be receiving in a week or so.

Business Card Mock-Ups

The front is white (off-white in the mock-up) with the CoverThis Photography logo in the bottom right. It is printed in black raised thermal ink, and purposely off-set so that the bottom and right sides of the lens will be trimmed off.

The back is “nearly” black, with my name and contact information printed in “nearly” white, accompanied by appropriate icons for each field (a little person next to my name, a camera next to “Photographer,” etc…). The text is formatted to fit into an exact rectangle, making for and “interesting” text layout…

Admittedly, I did get one comment that the back is confusing at first, yet I am happy with it, and chose to go with it after a good long thinking…

It sure isn’t one of “those” business cards, but I think it is sufficiently different, and from what I have gathered from others, I believe it will work in the end.

Shit-Storm

Published by -MiKe- on October 24, 2007 in Personal. 0 Comments

What a wonderful few days I have had. I suppose things aren’t as together as I would have liked to think they were.

It’s a lot of personal stuff, that centers around Jennifer and I, and communication and (my) lack of time management. That said, I don’t really want to get into it much, but it seems we’re doing better, so fret not.

On a happier side, dinner went well this Saturday. Jen decided not to go on the Canoe trip, in favor of keeping our prior plans for Bowling on Friday night, and an awake, and timely, diner, Saturday. Unfortunately, this didn’t work quite as planned, with the other couple we had been planning on going bowling with canceling last minute.

We made the best of it, though, watching the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” with Ben (and drinking a small bit…). Actually, I think it worked out quite well. It turns out the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” is actually a fabulous movie. Kind of wish we could show it as a school. Problem is, it’s a bit too “graphic” for Husson’s taste. Anyway, we had a good time of it, and it was nice to just hang out…

Back to Saturday.

I took Jen out to Ichiban, a local restaurant with Sushi Bar, in Bangor. It’s one of the better sushi joints I’ve ever been too, and we are both INSANE fans.

It went awesome. We had a really good time, ate a lot of good sushi, socialized a bit with other patrons… It was good.

We made a good night of it, and even Jen admits it was nice being able to enjoy dinner, knowing that we had gotten some school work done, and not being tired and cold from being on the water all day. Honestly, we probably could have done dinner, even if we went on the trip, but it was nice to be productive a bit…

In other news, I may be taking an independent study next semester.

More at 11.

:-)