3,600 should be enough

Tomorrow 3 professors and 12 students are heading over to Milan Italy for the international furniture fair. They're actually one of the groups displaying in the giga-complex that is the Milan Furniture Fair. And when I say "giga" I mean huge. This thing is miles long in each direction. I really hope it's a success for them since it is the first time the school has gotten a booth there.

Before they could go though, there was a lot of work and details that had to be taken care of. My end of all this was developing a graphic for the group that would be used on the cover of all the pamphlets they'll be handing out at the show as well as making everyones' business cards. Granted I have made myself business cards before, this has been my first "real" business card for a client. After a lot of hard work, phone calls, revisions, last minute tweaks and many trips to the print shop the cards are done, and they look stellar. Everybody loves them and I got a lot of pats on the back for them. I'm just happy that everyone was so pleased with my work.

As far as the details go I ended up making a total of 3,600 cards. Thats 240 per person and I had to print them out myself. I got the paper from a print shop, printed them (with numerous test prints) on a color laser printer, sorted them, took them back to the print shop to be cut down to size and boxed, then finally delivered them. If you look closely the plus symbol on the front lines up perfectly with the plus symbol on the back. Originally I wanted to have the plus stamped out of the card but it turned out that the shape was too small to make a die cut for and there wasn't enough time to send them out to be laser cut. In the end though it didn't really matter because they still look professional and like I said in an earlier post, one or two of the professors may be making these their new personal business cards because they don't like the standard issue cards the school gives them.

I printed 24 cards per 11x17 sheet on 100lb bright white cardstock.