business card design # 1 – based on a template by moo.com; other online business card manufacturers are available.

Thinking forward to the sort of work I’m likely to be producing during Identity and Place, I realise that there’s going to be quite a lot of photographing people who I don’t know. In the past, people have often asked why I want to take their picture and then, when I’ve said why, whether I have a card or some other proof that I’m not just some random idiot with a camera. It therefore seems a good idea to get some cards made up.

Probably because I’m coming towards the end of preparing Context and Narrative for assessment, I think I’ll take some of the face strips from C&N assignment 3 to use for the picture side.

business card design # 2 – based on a template by moo.com; other online business card manufacturers are available.

And then comes the question of what to put on the back.

My name should go there, obviously, and so should the url (and a small logo) for the OCA. Then do I add a link that goes here? Probably. But I definitely don’t include my phone number or email.

(Assessment displacement activity alert: I think I’ll pose a question about what to put in writing, up on the student forum.)

business card design # 3 – based on a template by moo.com; other online business card manufacturers are available.

Indeed, as well as allowing me to “prove” to strangers that I am what I say I am, there is a second purpose to having something with “Simon Chirgwin: photography student” written on the back. It will help make what I’m doing more concrete to me as well; effectively saying it out loud will help with my self-identification as an artist, won’t it?

Reference:

Moo Print Ltd [GB]: http://bit.ly/2qjaYT4 (accessed 25/5/17)