I think it’s ironic how, as a graphic designer, I take on work where I’m asked to design business cards for other people when I don’t even have a card of my own.

I think it was because I landed my first job even before I finished college so there really wasn’t any need for me to have a business card– there was no one to hand it out to. Until now. I am currently freelancing and just a few weeks ago during a meeting, a magazine publisher asked for my contact details. Not having a business card on hand, I borrowed some paper torn out from a notebook and wrote my name and e-mail address on it.

Needless to say, she lost the scrap of paper a few days later. She had to ask someone to ask me what my e-mail address is. My business cards, which I ordered a few weeks ago from overnightprints.com, were still on their way here to the Philippines then.

The website is Overnight Prints but it took more than a month for my cards to get here because I was cheap and used 5-day ground shipping to save on shipping costs. It didn’t get to my aunt in San Diego on time who was supposed to hand-carry them over here when she went for a visit last August.

Nevertheless, I’m really happy with the outcome and I highly recommend Overnight Prints for the quality. This probably sounds like a paid advertisement or a paid post but it’s not– just a thumbs up from a happy customer!

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My business card design was included in Part 4 of All Graphic Design’s post: The Coolest Business Cards – Beautiful & Unique Business Card Designs Part 4 a few days before my cards arrived. Thanks, All Graphic Design!

Self-promotional double-sided, matte-finish business cards highlighting my website URL and my contact details.

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Sending out bulletin messages, e-mails, and posts after I publish this entry…

About this website: I’ve been sitting on relaunching my dead website for the longest time… three years? Five years? I’ve lost count of how many years this domain gathered dust. Only had time to really work on it this May, after I resigned from my full-time job. I love being a part-time bum.

The layout will hopefully be temporary. While this Wordpress theme I’m using is great and fits my needs, I’d like to be able to work with my own design and layout. Now if only HTML and CSS came naturally to me…