MOO cards are here!
May 16th, 2008 by Juha Ylitalo
Above: samples from my first batch of MOO cards.
Last week, I ordered (due to various reasons) my first batch of 100 MOO Minicards. These MOO cards are smaller (28×70mm) than traditional business cards. One side you can put (cropped version of) photograph and to the otherside you can put (at max) 6 lines of text and small logo. What makes MOO cards really unique is that you can select different photograph for each and everyone of your business cards (but each batch is 100 cards). I used 54 photographs for my first batch so I got two business cards from most photographs, but some are unique as well.
What comes to text part, I decided to use my six lines in following fashion:
Juha Ylitalo
+358 40 562 6152
juha@ylitalot.netValokuvia: http://www.ylitalot.net/
Photographs: http://www.ylitalot.com/
If you want to create some MOO mini cards for yourself, there are two things that you should know:
- flickr’s MOO Card Design group instructs that photographs should be cropped to 1600×692 aspect ratio (and don’t crop it too tightly …)
- 2RB2CK promotional code will give you 15% discount, if you are making your first order from moo.com
If you want to get one of my cards, you can ask them from me in street, workplace, taiji practise or someother situation, when we are physically at same location. You might also find some of my cards from geocaches, if I’ve found some travel bug from it or I feel that geocache deserves some kind of memorial from me. If you want some specific MOO card, let me know advance, so that it won’t get given out to someone else …
Below: 38 photographs that were used for MOO cards creation.
Nice. Very nice.
I’ve been toying with the idea for a long time.
How long did the developing and delivery take? Or are the actual cards still in the mail.
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It took me couple evenings to crop photographs and upload them to one set in flickr (as private photographs except for friends and family). I would recommend this approach to all moo.com customers as easist way to deal with uploads.
Order confirmation came on May 8 21:00 (Thu)
Order dispatched notification came on May 12 13:52 (Mon)
Dispatch notification said that MOO cards are sent as first class air mail and estimated delivery time is 5-7 days. There is no tracking code for air mail, so I was positively surprised, when I came home on May 15 (Thu) (after Linux Day) and found MOO cards from mailbox (actually they were on the floor, but …)
Very nice! You did a awesome job with the composition for the type of format. Nice job on the vertical format.