Where in the world am I today?: Juneau, Alaska aboard the Golden Princess

Quite a while back I posted about how much I love the annual Trading Cards that I get done up… Well it’s that time of year again… The time of year when I need to either put my nose to the grindstone and come up with the new design myself, or else track someone else down who might be interested in helping come up with some design ideas/concepts that could eventually become the design for the 2010 card…

In the last couple of years I’ve opted to sit down and tackle the process myself… I’ve been reasonably happy with the results, but beyond the certain pleasure I get from coming up with the annual design, I’ve tried to avoid the challenge of having to explain how to create the design to someone who doesn’t necessarily get it…

Because I’ve been involved with the cards since the first year (1999), I totally get what the process is all about and have a pretty good grip on how to deliver a design that will look reasonably good when people mess around with the color scheme and put their own picture into the basic frame that gets created.

The challenge for me comes from wanting to have a design that’s eye-catching enough to provide a certain dynamic to the cards, yet not too over powering to what ever image is put inside the frame. One also needs to keep in mind that the printing/cutting process isn’t an exact science, so having a bit of space in the design to allow for these production variances is also a very good idea…

One of the things on my list of stuff to do while aboard the Golden Princess this week (beyond just doing my shows) was to start formulating a design for the 2010 cards… If anyone out there reading this blog has any brilliant ideas that they’d like to send my way I’d be more than happy to hear them… You can reach me via email or leave a comment at the bottom of this post.

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