Moo mini cards!
Hopefully you’ve all read the October summary post, life has been pretty hectic, I’ve met quite a lot of new people when I go out gigging and it’s come to a point where I thought, “hmm i best get some business cards going on”. Now I already have a work business card but that doesn’t have my real mobile or any relations to what I do outside work and whatnot, so it’s a bit useless when I go out gigging (unless I’m actually meeting a bunch of crazy assed coders who work in the same industry as me where networking wouldn’t be such a bad idea). This is where moo cards come into play.
For those who don’t know much about moo.com, they’re a cute company from London who specialise in printing ickle cards and other bits and bobs for photographers and what have you. Their speciality are these 70×28mm mini cards which has your photo on it with a bit of text at the back. I spent a good amount of time contemplating whether I should get a business card by them or the mini cards but near the end decided to go with the mini cards because:
- They were so damn cute
- You get 100 of them
- The crazy narrow dimensions make it a challenge to compose a shot with existing photos
- They were so damn cute
- They’re smaller than business cards meaning you can technically put twice as many cards as you can in your wallet compared to business cards
- They were so damn cute
I wanted to showcase not only my gig photos, but other bits and bobs I took during my travels and whatnot (including the naive period where I shot all sorts of crap haha). The photos comes in packs of 100 and you are flexible in how many different photos you could have in the pack, I opted for 50 different photos (so two each) since I’m still in convincing mode and wanted to see which photos worked the best once printed for future reference. The cropping was pretty tough since it’s mainly good for wide shots, if that’s not the case then you had to be inventive in how you cropped the image, some of them didn’t come out too good but some worked really well (I love the howling bells shots :D).
Moo mini card scramble
The mini cards came in today and I was instantly chuffed with the quality of it, it came with a lot of cute bonus cards (for marketing innit) and was wrapped in a cute plastic box, I also bought a minicard holder which stores about 15 mini cards on the go. If you’re a fellow photographer, go grab yourself some mini cards! It’s nice to have them printed out to show off your crazy photography awesomeness (sometimes having it display on a monitor isn’t enough you need it physically there to appreciate it), they’re only £10 for 100 and are perfect for handing to strangers and whatnot.
Here’s a video of the mini cards I got in action:
Not convinced? Got a flickr pro account? Why not just buy a pack and see what you think! This promotion link will get you 10 free sample moo mini cards so you can see for yourself. Let me know what you think!
