Director of Community: A Business Card Approach

The Business Card is by far the most impossibly disengaging communication device in modern times. Why can’t we let them go? Maybe like newspapers, the ephemeral journal of our day-to-day existence, in spite of death and starvation, still connects us.

Let’s get together.

That’s what’s said by a business card. And it’s sometimes said so appealingly. Business Cards are professional by nature. So the society they invite is per se public, shameless, and manageable. Puritan, of the dance card type.

In my neck of the woods, business cards all look alike. It’s not necessary to print our damn logo again twenty-thousand times. Use the Search Directory. But. Put people in a community that is larger than the brand, and they need business cards. Identity branding. Pure self promotion, yeah.

But cynical? Gosh no. I am thoroughly taken with browsing the stack of cards in front of me now, the representation of a decade in music publishing. Graphic art, paper art, memorabilia. A network as dense as the width between two cards at the bottom of a stack of two hundred. There is nothing less cynical than the humanity of business cards, and people looking for ways out or ways in.



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A Handmade Dress a Day

There is this wonderful blog that every fashionista / crafter reads: A Dress a Day. She finds incredible vintage patterns and dresses across the cybermall and shares them with her readers. Here's my dress for the day -- all handmade all the time (unless it's vintage and I can't resist).

This shop is called Audrey and Grace, and they are a self-described shop for authentic reproductions. They do incredible work at prices that most of us would consider a totally reasonable splurge for a special occasion.