Ways To Make A Greeting Card
There are different ways to make a greeting card. Some people draw or paint and then scan in their designs. Other people photograph and upload an image and work from that. Whichever way they work with the design, at some point they are going to have a PDF ready to send off the printer. The…
The Significance of Birthday Cards
Why Birthday cards? The argument goes something like this: In England, people are not overly fond of talking to each other at any deep level, so the more that the function can be offloaded to some other means, the better. Whether true or not, British people send more cards than do people anywhere else in…
Sir Henry Cole
I keep coming back to Sir Henry Cole because it was he who created the first commercially available greeting cards in the UK. The thought of him often sits in the back of my mind when we are designing cards. In my mind’s eye I see a wisp of a timeline that leads from his…