{"id":80,"date":"2008-05-08T22:29:38","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T02:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2008-05-08T22:29:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T02:29:38","slug":"packaging-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/2008\/05\/08\/packaging-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Packaging cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The domain name here, metcaffeination.net, is a made-up name. When I tell people I have a blog, or that I have a site with new picture each day of my son<\/a>, I need to make sure the offer the domain name in writing, because its spelling is not obvious. I decided, recently, to make up some cards with the domain name, so I could hand them out like business cards.<\/p>\n

I chose two different styles: the first, which I ordered from eInvite<\/a>, are simple: the domain name, my name, and my email address. They had sufficiently robust online design tools so that I could get the type of card I had imagined without worry that fonts wouldn’t be imbedded or that some other problem associated with emailing a PDF wouldn’t happen. And I am quite pleased with the cards.<\/p>\n

The second ones were photo cards, to promote the Matthew Picture of the Day. I wanted full-color photos on these, with the website url. For these, I went with Moo<\/a>‘s mini-cards<\/a>, which seem to be the favorite of hipster digital designer types. These, too, came out well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I got 100 of each, which for business-size cards is a small order. But I’d like to compare the packaging that each company sent my cards in.<\/p>\n

First, the photo mini-cards. One hundred of them, in a small box, in a modest padded envelope:<\/p>\n

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The standard cards came in a corrugated cardboard box, half of which was taken up by packing material and the other half of which contained a smaller box:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Opening the smaller box revealed a fractal-like pattern: half of the smaller box was taken up by packing material, and half contained a smaller box:<\/p>\n

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Inside this third box were, finally, the cards. But half of the inside of the third box was also taken up by packing material:<\/p>\n

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To illustrate the amount of empty space that was shipped to me, here are the cards shown inside the outer-most shipping box:<\/p>\n

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The domain name here, metcaffeination.net, is a made-up name. When I tell people I have a blog, or that I have a site with new picture each day of my son, I need to make sure the offer the domain name in writing, because its spelling is not obvious. I decided, recently, to make up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-society","category-environment","category-metcaffeination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}