{ MOO Printing }

A few post ago I was talking about how I was in the process in creating a new business card for myself. Well good news I ordered them yesterday and I must say the whole process was a lot easier then I could have ever imagined. All because of MOO.com an online printing company that specializes in business cards. They made the whole process simple and very easy. With there website you have the ability to submit your own designs to create your cards or use any of the numerous templates they have available. They have numerous styles of paper to choice from and you have the choice to choose between glossy and matte cards. They even emailed me a proof layout of my cards to make sure it's what I wanted. The website has even send me numerous emails reminding me of my order. I would highly suggest this website to all of my friends, graphic designers or not. The website is http://us.moo.com/ and they are having a sale till September 30th, so if I was you I would get my orders in before it's to late.  Below I added some of the guidelines to ordering at MOO.com and what you have to follow to make your design fit there templates.

{ QR Codes and Scanners }

As I mention in my last post I have been working on rebranding myself the last couple of weeks. I have redone everything, including my business card. Since a business card is one of the most common things in our world it can be hard to stick out from the crowd. This was what I wanted to do. Since I was young I never really followed the social norm, I was always trying to follow my own path. So it was no surprise that when it comes to my business card I wanted to be unique and having something more than just my name, phone number, email and so on. Since I have also always been good with technology I did some research on what is trending in the digital design form. Something that has been around for years now is QR codes. QR codes are similar to bar codes in the sense that they are scanned to get the information. This was something that I found very interesting, with some more research I found that you can create a QR code for just about anything, websites, digital business cards, and so much more. I knew QR codes were just what I was looking for. The next step would be what website to share with my future employers. I ended up picking my Behance page {I'll talk about Behance next week}. And just like that I had a way to make myself stick out in a crowd, the only down fall was that I didn't have a QR code scanner or a QR code generator. With a simple Goggle search I found the generator that creates QR codes with little information. All you really need to know is the URL or the simple contact information. Here's the website for the QR Generator that I use http://www.qrstuff.com/. The last and final step is getting a QR Scanner, this was easy you can download a QR Scanner on all smartphone devices. Most QR scanner apps also double as bar code scanners. So it would be something that I would consider downloading the next time you’re on your smartphone devices. Hopefully this helps, and just to tie in all in I'll upload a picture of code I just made for the back of my business card. Happy QR-ing

{ QR Code for My Behance Page }