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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I painted this peaceful Arctic scene. Click for a bigger image:

I made wallpapers for your desktops. Enjoy!

If you’re interested in the process behind the painting I also wrote a post on that.

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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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Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza from Seinfeld.
The first in a series of portraits of TV show characters.

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1. Digital Painting
2. Brain Slug Illustration
3. Fringe Portraits: Olivia, Peter and Walter

More images and info in my Portfolio Gallery.

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

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The Converter is a unit conversion app designed by Vladimir Kofman. He contacted me to design a new logo for the app’s newest version.

This logo was a lot of work as the design is complicated and full of details. Icons for all iPhone and iPad models were created, resizing, redrawing and optimizing the shapes by hand for each size.

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I was contacted by Erich Douglass to design a logo for his Android app Gradebook. The app is designed to be used by students to keep track of school assignments, course work, and their GPA.
Erich sent me links to similar apps and logos he liked. He suggested I concentrate on graphic metaphors connected to school so I sent him a few sketches. I always try to come up with at least three different concepts for app logos, ranging from the most obvious to the most far out. It’s important to stretch your imagination at this stage. As usual, the simplest concept was the best one (#3):

I created the icon based on the approved sketch:

Obviously it was too busy. We decided to simplify it in order to make it read better so here’s the final version:

All in all this was a fun project. I especially enjoyed the quick turnaround which always makes me itch for more and more work.

Here’s Erich’s testimonial about our collaboration:

Working with Andrea as been fantastic! As someone who is new to working with a freelancer, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Once I had sent him my contact information Andrea responded promptly to my request and helped guide me through the process. After describing the application to him, he quickly sketched up a few icon ideas and we proceeded to refine the concept until we came up with the final icon. The results were great and I belive that a great icon will help set my application apart from the crowd.
If I need any design work done in the future, Andrea will be the first person I contact.

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