1,000 Business Cards for Free from 1800Postcards.com!

Why not refresh your image for the New Year…for free? 1800Postcards.com is offering you the opportunity to win 1000 business cards!

So why trust 1800Postcards.com with your design work?
1800Postcards.com is the retail branch of Circle Press, a high-end commercial printing firm with a roster of Fortune 100 clients that includes Dior, Tiffany, Disney, American Express, Broadway Shows and most of the world’s leading brands. These companies demand nothing but the best in quality. To be specific, a quality standard called “G7”, which is only granted to printing firms that meet a very strict set of best practices and production quality. These clients sit with pre-press, have color proofs printed for spot color matching, they come in when the job is printed to make color adjustments and watch it run on the press to see the final results, the whole nine yards. They also pay tens of thousands of dollars for this type of service level.

1800Postcards produces your print work in the same facilities, with the same press-men and production staff, and adheres to the same quality standards as high-end commercial jobs. The only difference is that your job is “gang printed” or run together with other 1800Postcard clients, which is the secret of every online printing company and why they can be so cheap in pricing. However, 1800Postcards.com just brought it up to an almost unreasonable level of quality :)

But what if you don’t need postcards? Well they’re capable of more than just postcard printing. They offer brochures, business cards, flyers, posters, banners, stickers and pretty much any custom work your creative mind can imagine.

Bottom line, the print results are unbelievable… no one in the online printing space comes even close to this quality and attention to detail. You can see it yourself by requesting free samples @ 1800Postcards.com/freesamples.

The Giveaway

Winning the 1,000 Free Business Cards is easy… Just click on the “Participate” widget below and leaving a brief comment on this post tell why you should win.
3 winners will be selected. Only US residents are eligible.
I will accept entries until February 1. The winners will be announced February 2.

Step 1

Participate by Clicking on This Link and Entering Your Info

Click here to participate.

Step 2

Leave a comment telling us why you should win.

Good luck!

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Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by 1800Postcards.com

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UPrinting is offering a special giveaway to Cute Little Factory’s US readers:

Prize Details:

• 1 piece Poster Printing for One (1) Winner
• 18″ x 24″
• Semi Gloss / High Gloss
• 1 Business Day Turnaround
• *Free shipping
• Restriction: Limited to *US residents 18 years old and above only

Entry Requirements:

• Tweet how you will use the poster if you win the giveaway and at the end of the message include the UPrinting Poster Printing URL (http://www.uprinting.com/poster-printing.html) or use this button: Tweet

Additional Entry:

• Follow UPrinting on Twitter.

Timeframe:

The giveaway ends on Thursday January 12th at 12:00 CET. The winner will be chosen randomly and announced on Friday 13th. (Isn’t that perfect?)

Disclaimer: This giveaway is sponsored by UPrinting. Please visit them for more information about their printing services and for your printing needs.

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2011 has been lean and mean so here’s hoping 2012 will bring growth, both personal and professional, to all of us (click to enlarge):

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For a while now I’ve stopped creating tutorials and freebies to concentrate on personal work. If you browse my Portfolio Gallery you will see that I’ve moved away from icon design to focus exclusively on illustration. After trying out different directions (posters, typography etc.) I’ve finally settled on portrait/caricature drawing and digital painting.
In my 13 years as a professional graphic artist those are the things I never really learned so from now on that’s all I’m gonna be doing. My main ongoing project is portraits of characters from TV shows and here’s what I’ve done so far:

Frank Costanza from Seinfeld:

Tattoo from Fantasy Island as The Man From Another Place from Twin Peaks:

Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation starring in his own spin-off series “Swanson, p.i.”:

The last two are TV mashups, remixes of characters from different shows.
Not only does this project allow me to practice new skills, it’s a way for me to pay tributes to the TV characters I love and the actors that play them.

Head over to my personal website and my Portfolio Gallery to see detailed shots and process explanations.

I hope you like my new works and that they inspire you to pursue new directions too, improving your skills and having fun in the process.

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“Play Everyday” and “Combover” are now available as high quality art prints. Take a look!

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I have another invitation to Dribbble so, just like before, leave a link to your portfolio in the comments and I’ll pick the winner, exclusively based on merit.
The giveaway ends Wednesday 13th.

Of course I can use all the publicity I can get so it doesn’t hurt me if you tweet this post but remember that I will give the invitation to the best portfolio.
That’s the only criterium.

UPDATE: The invitation goes to Nora from Catapulta. Congratulations!

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The Portfolio section on this website features extensive posts about my work with process explanations and shots as well as client testimonials. While that is good for a design blog I wanted to have a place where my potential clients could review my work in an easy and quick way, letting the images speak for themselves. I’ve been using Cargo as a portfolio platform for a while now and I was very satisfied with it so I upgraded my account and uploaded all of my work there.

Isn’t it “austonishing”? From now on please go to my Portfolio Gallery for an overview of my work without all the sketches and blabbering. Thank you.

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The mighty Vectortuts+ has interviewed me about myself and my work. Check it out!

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For the past months my personal work has dramatically shifted towards illustration. Today I announce the opening of my print store.

The first prints available are the Fringe portraits (on sale after having been featured on El Paìs) and “Someone Is Printing Up Souls”. More work is coming as I learn the ropes of producing, packing and shipping prints.
Check it out!

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I just scored 2 (two) invitations to Dribbble, probably the best community for designers out there now, and I’m giving them away right here.
In order to enter the giveaway you don’t need to subscribe to the site, follow me on Twitter or share this post. Just post a comment with a link to your portfolio. Simple as that.
The two winners will be announced next Friday, May 6th.

UPDATE – May 7th: I have picked the two winners.
Thanks everybody for submitting your work! There were a lot of worthy portfolios and it was really hard to choose only two but I’ve finally made up my mind.
The Dribbble invites go to Iaroslav Lazunov and Ciro Esposito, whom I’ve already contacted personally. Congratulations!

This giveaway was fun and it gave me the opportunity to see some quality work. I hope to host another one soon.

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