A common misconception when I hand out my stamp-based recycled business cards.
I recently finished a class on WordPress for a very attentive set of students. In the class, as usual, I shared my hand-torn, stamp-imprinted, recycled-materials business cards. They give a message of ecological thinking and frugality along with the message of how to get in touch with me. Most people remark that it is clever, low-cost, and welcomed. They also tend to be irregular, interesting, and obviously imperfect. In my opinion, beautifully so.
stamp based recycled business cards for lemasney
One of the students and I had this recent exchange over email. The student wrote:
“Dear Mr. LeMasney, I would like to thank you so much for your excellent class – you are a great teacher! In such a short time I learned a lot and I am going to use it in my upcoming trip to Israel – as a travel blog. Have a great day,”
To which I responded:
“It was my sincere pleasure to meet and work with you. Happy travels!”
Then another exchange from the student:
“I looked at your info card that I received at the class and I would like to offer to prepare you a new one (FREE). The current one is not cut properly and the print is not aligned to the center (top and sidewise).”
I had a good chuckle at this
It’s obvious that when I explained my philosophy of why I was using these cards and not purchasing cards (which I find to be a waste of resources and material for something likely to be thrown away after the information is digitized or otherwise added to contact info/address book, etc.) she must have been preoccupied with something else.
My response:
“Thanks, but that imperfection is by design.
I am a graphic designer, and the reason that my card does not look like everyone else’s is because I choose to use recycled materials for my cards, and very low-cost printing methods (a reusable stamp). My cards are a second chance for usefulness for otherwise discarded scraps.I could have made it ‘perfect’, but instead I made it ecologically beautiful. I would not have it any other way.John. “
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