CDTlog

A couple of months ago, former pupil Michael Chalmers visited us to deliver a talk about his film studies and photography – see earlier post at cdtlog.  He brought along a pack of business cards he’d had printed by the on-line service Moo.com.  Michael said he hadn’t imagined he’d ever need business cards, especially while still studying at art college, however he had in fact found them invaluable.

Suitably inspired, I assembled some examples of work I’d produced over the years to support pupils, and had them applied to a set of cards.  A pack of fifty cards cost £12-99 including postage.  One side of the card employs one of Moo’s standard templates and includes my contact details, along with the school crest.  The other is a full bleed image.

The cards are gorgeous, printed on heavy weight  smooth matt stock.  The images have turned out a wee bit dark, so if I were to use the service again I’d lighten the colours before uploading.  I’d probably also upload my own layout of the contact info, rather than complete one of Moo’s standard templates.

Pupils in our Higher Graphics classes are currently creating suites of business stationery, as part of the ‘display’ element of the Thematic Presentation.  They have found the cards of interest and examples of their final work will be posted over at our main departmental site soon.

A couple of days after the cards arrived, our new rector, Mrs Frith, was visiting class and mentioned that until now she simply had business cards printed out in school, but that the Moo.com cards were superior.  I suggested that she have a set done at Moo, each with a different piece of pupil work featured on the reverse.  If she goes down this route, I’ll ask her if I may feature the resulting cards here.