I am kind of a stickler for good design.  I am not a great designer but I can fake it with simplicity most of the time.  I knew when I started my business that along the way I would need to have GREAT design in order to stick out amongst the crowd of photographers in this city.  So I started with really terrible logo, then I improved and improved until I had something I was ok with.

Then, by chance, I met Corey at a local coffee shop and we got to talking about life and school and all that good stuff.  Turns out she was a design major at the Art Academy.  I asked her if her class ever took on small businesses as a project and she said yes.  So I gave her my (terribly designed) card and hoped to hear back.  A few months later, she emailed me to say “Our class already has their project set for this year but…” I expected “…maybe next year”.  Instead she said “A friend and I are started a freelance design business and we are looking for projects to build our portfolio and we would like to take you on as one of our projects”.  Best part: “We wanna do this for materials cost only!”  Wow.  Along the way of starting your own business I think you need a couple breaks here and there just to keep you encouraged.  It’s a hard road to say the least.  This was one of my many breaks.

Starting in December I met with Corey and Zach from Yellow Whale Design and ironed out a new logo (which you can see in the header of the blog) and pitched an idea to them for letterpress business cards.  They were stoked!  They have been working their butts off the last few weeks to finish the business cards and I got them today!  I was so excited I spent some time photographing them so you could see the results of their hard work.  If you need some design please contact them through their website…they are just getting started but they are going places so get them while you can afford them:)

Once someone said to me, “Letterpress is so yummy.”  I couldn’t have said it better myself.

No two cards are exactly the same. Pretty nasty (in a good way) if you ask me.

You have to be really special to get one of these...I am getting "replicas" made to pass out to all the people who don't deserve them:)

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