Zazzle Profile Cards!
I've been here 9.5 months, and literally (cheese ahead) everyday, I find something that gives me this warm glowing euphoria about having found this uberfantasticspontaneousdizzyinglyfun career niche. I love my job! ^___^ I mean, how could you not love a place where you have company-wide meetings while lounging on 5-person beanbags, holiday parties where the founders play a mean (and looooud) game of beer pong, afternoons spent playing RockBand or swimming in the pool (come summer, that's me!) when not in meetings, and the walls are coated with floor-to-ceiling murals of some of the most talented graffiti artists to Padame from Star Wars?
And then for what I do personally... I play! Ideate, draw, cut out prototypes of packaging from transparency sheets from OfficeMax... I'm quickly getting a creative rep here, and I love it.
In the time that I've been here, I've learned SO much about everything from fashion, textiles, paper, apparel, printing, brainstorming, arts and crafts, and just... anything that's remotely linked to aesthetics. I revamped the apparel packaging (so if you've gotten anything in a translucent metallic envelope, that was me), and today... my very first product launched!!!!
Zazzle Profile Cards
Forget boring, work-related business cards. Imagine instead, three sizes of cards - Skinny, Classic, and Chubby - that represent your multiple personality aspects. Skinnies are the fun, trendy social handouts, although everyone we've shown them to, including multi-million $ CEOs, love them and want to use them for work. ...! Classic is well, classic. And Chubby is the same size as trading cards, so if you wanted to make a profile card with a headshot (any models out there?) or just wanted to make an impression with a card that stands out 1/2" higher than all the rest of them, that's the one. The fun part about these is 1) the papers - we had soooo much fun testing, sourcing, choosing, and naming the papers, 2) the designs - there's a ton already on Zazzle, but you can design your own! and 3) the EJECTOR for the skinny cards!
That translucent, sleek container shown above is my baby, the culmination of 4 months and 40+ prototypes and re-designing. I'd be sick of it, if I wasn't so proud of it. :) Basically, it has this cut-out where your thumb pushes the card out of the container for fast, "quick-draw" handout of your cards. What makes it different (and caused the most pain for me) is the fact that cards won't fall out of the container, so you don't have to worry about cards all over your purse/pocket. And it has this wonderful feel.. something permanent (but recyclable), yet small and very portable.
And then for what I do personally... I play! Ideate, draw, cut out prototypes of packaging from transparency sheets from OfficeMax... I'm quickly getting a creative rep here, and I love it.
In the time that I've been here, I've learned SO much about everything from fashion, textiles, paper, apparel, printing, brainstorming, arts and crafts, and just... anything that's remotely linked to aesthetics. I revamped the apparel packaging (so if you've gotten anything in a translucent metallic envelope, that was me), and today... my very first product launched!!!!
Zazzle Profile Cards
Forget boring, work-related business cards. Imagine instead, three sizes of cards - Skinny, Classic, and Chubby - that represent your multiple personality aspects. Skinnies are the fun, trendy social handouts, although everyone we've shown them to, including multi-million $ CEOs, love them and want to use them for work. ...! Classic is well, classic. And Chubby is the same size as trading cards, so if you wanted to make a profile card with a headshot (any models out there?) or just wanted to make an impression with a card that stands out 1/2" higher than all the rest of them, that's the one. The fun part about these is 1) the papers - we had soooo much fun testing, sourcing, choosing, and naming the papers, 2) the designs - there's a ton already on Zazzle, but you can design your own! and 3) the EJECTOR for the skinny cards!
That translucent, sleek container shown above is my baby, the culmination of 4 months and 40+ prototypes and re-designing. I'd be sick of it, if I wasn't so proud of it. :) Basically, it has this cut-out where your thumb pushes the card out of the container for fast, "quick-draw" handout of your cards. What makes it different (and caused the most pain for me) is the fact that cards won't fall out of the container, so you don't have to worry about cards all over your purse/pocket. And it has this wonderful feel.. something permanent (but recyclable), yet small and very portable.