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<\/a>stamp based recycled business cards for lemasney<\/p><\/div>\n
One of the students and I had this recent exchange over email. The student wrote:<\/p>\n
“Dear Mr. LeMasney,\u00a0I would like to thank you so much for your excellent class – you are a great teacher!\u00a0In 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.\u00a0Have a great day,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
To which I responded:<\/p>\n
“It was my sincere pleasure to meet and work with you. Happy travels!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Then another exchange from the student:<\/p>\n
“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).”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I had a good chuckle at this<\/h3>\n
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.<\/p>\n
My response:<\/p>\n
“Thanks, but that imperfection is by design.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
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.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nI could have made it ‘perfect’, but instead I made it ecologically beautiful. I would not have it any other way.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nJohn.\u00a0“<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The only issue with using recycled business cards. cc-by lemasney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7,18,3659,3653,3654,21,23,27,31,32,36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brand","8":"category-consulting","9":"category-cv","10":"category-design-principles","11":"category-insights","12":"category-portfolio","13":"category-professional-activities","14":"category-professional-experience","15":"category-references","16":"category-teaching","17":"category-teaching-experience","18":"category-workshops","19":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/stamp-based-recycled-business-cards-for-lemasney.jpg?fit=1769%2C1769&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-aWY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7512,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2014\/02\/26\/52-365-recycling-cardstock-hand-cut-stamped-business-cards\/","url_meta":{"origin":42096,"position":0},"title":"52 of 365: On recycling cardstock: hand cut and stamped business cards","author":"lemsy","date":"2014-02-26","format":false,"excerpt":"On caring for nature I was once in an environmental action committee for an organization. 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