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March 2013, by Jon | 26 Comments – latest by Victoria ColetteWe love discovering new businesses that you guys have got kicked-off and love it when your creative use of MOO Products has been some small part of a success story. That really is the icing on the cake. (CAKE! Did someone say cake?)
So when we decided that we wanted to open a shop, pretty much the first thing (after deciding that there were going to be cookies) was to ensure that you, our customers, and your businesses took pride of place.
We’ve taken our Inspiration Gallery and made it into something you can touch, pick up and feel. Here you’ll find some of …Continue reading this article…
- MOO Products: Business Cards, Postcards, Stickers, The MOO Shop
- Industry: Photography, Small Business
Design some Stickers for Cleopatra in our latest competition
February 2013, by Jon | Add a commentLast month, you helped us kick off 2013 with our 5 Card Pitch competition, which was great fun. Why stop there, we asked ourselves. It’s been a while since we asked you to show us your creativity and carry out some rebranding in a celebrity themed competition. So who better to undergo a MOO makeover than the Queen of the Nile, Cleopatra (a.k.a CEO of Nile Enterprises).
We like to think that if MOO had been around a few thousand years ago, Cleo would have been a MOO fan. After all, she was a powerful (business) woman, and might have used Round Stickers to seal her papyrus …Continue reading this article…
- MOO Products: Business Cards, Labels, Stickers
- Industry: Graphic Design, Graphic Designer, Illustrator
- Creative Use Of: Graphic Design, stickers
Bits and Pieces – a deconstructed look at old mobile phones
February 2013, by Felix | 1 Comment – latest by raquelFor our latest set of Business Card designs, which we’ve aptly named Bit and Pieces, there was a fair amount of destruction that had to occur before any creation took place. I’m always interested by the way things work, or why things are the way they are, take, for example, the ever-present mobile phone.
The mystery – a bit like invisible magic – inside products really fascinates me. When I was about to throw away a few broken old mobile phones that had accumulated over the years, it struck me that …Continue reading this article…
- MOO Products: Business Cards
- Industry: Photography
- Creative Use Of: Photography
Well, a brand new year deserves a brand new competition – don’t you think?
January 2013, by Andrea | 17 Comments – latest by Benyamin
We wanted to start off the year with a good one, and luckily, inspiration came to our very doorstep. At the end of December, we got a visit from our UK MOO Award winners, ColaLife – you can read all about their trip to MOO HQ here, and their brilliant business here.
Aside from their business and their brilliant presentation, we were also hugely impressed with their Business Cards. As you can see above, they used Printfinity to create 5 Business Cards that present their business – from start to finish. Simon …Continue reading this article…
- MOO Products: Business Cards
- Industry: Small Business
- Creative Use Of: Business Cards
Too pretty to open – creative packaging with MOO
October 2012, by Andrea | 9 Comments – latest by Photo BoothObviously you want people to open the present they’ve received or parcel they’ve ordered – but if you’ve done a great job with the packaging, they’ll probably think twice about ripping the paper off without taking the time to admire the effort!
Once again, we turn to our creative community for inspiration – because while we make the cards, we never stop learning ways to use them from you. And these three examples are a really good start to unleashing your pretty packaging potential.
Photographer Robyn’s an old friend of MOO – and she’s a lady who understands the positive power of packaging. She creates festive MiniCard …Continue reading this article…
- MOO Products: Business Cards, MiniCards, QR codes, Stickers
- Creative Use Of: Photography
MOO and Improved – Part II
October 2012, by Aaron T | 12 Comments – latest by Double U.We quite enjoy watching dodgy sequels, you know, the ones that went straight to DVD! But when it comes to our website upgrades at MOO, our sequels just keep getting better…
We ‘re always exploring new ways to make life easier for our customers. When we were improving our upload, image and design tools recently we had one reservation, “What about all the designers in our coMOOnity? None of these improvements are going to make life easier for them”.
You see we have noticed that a great many of you arrive at moo.com with complete designs – some great ones too – for both sides of your cards. You don’t need MOO tools and templates; you just need a great printer.
Well we …Continue reading this article…
- MOO Products: Business Cards
- Industry: Graphic Design, Graphic Designer
Celebrity Cards – our Lego photography winner
October 2012, by Jon | 14 Comments – latest by AliFor our most recent design competition, we combined the launch of our Gloss Business Cards and MiniCards, a love of Lego (which we had a hunch many of you would share!) and a love of classic photography and art. Phew! With such a broad range of inspiration, we received a wide range of submissions, from film and music posters to classic and modern paintings.
We’re very pleased to announce that Chris Marwood has been chosen as our winner! Chris’ ‘subterranean’ design appealed to the music fans at MOO HQ and the fact that the whole image is composed purely from Lego. Fantastic. Chris wins the lovely prize of $300 cash and $100 …Continue reading this article…
- MOO Products: Business Cards, Gloss Business Cards, Gloss MiniCards, MiniCards
- Industry: Photographer, Photography
- Creative Use Of: Lego
The Business Cards of the Future – NFC
September 2012, by Martin | 204 Comments – latest by Professor Scot PhelpsSince MOO started in 2006, we’ve been focused on the idea of revolutionizing the Business Card. We’ve always aimed to upset the existing order within print – to do new things, think in exciting ways, and to go where no man has gone before. **ahem**
Six years later those aims haven’t changed. We still want to upset the order, and we still want to make people gasp – in a good way, and we still want to meet a Klingon. As a consequence, a small group here at MOO HQ has been secretly working on some exciting new things that we hope will help to define the way that we all exchange personal information in the future. Whilst we’re not ready …Continue reading this article…
- MOO Products: Business Cards, Luxe Business Cards
- Industry: Internet, tech
The MOO Crew get hacking
September 2012, by James B | Add a commentHere at MOO, we love technology, and so every now and then we take a break from our “roadmap” to get a bit creative by having a Hack Day.
The Brief
It’s a chance to try out a working prototype of an adventurous idea. It can be something to improve moo.com, or it can be office related. Or it can just be a bit of fun involving some clever piece of technology. Hack Day only has two rules:
People can work individually, or in teams. The only requirement is that you do something and then make a short presentation about that something at the end of Hack Day.
There is no number 2.
Thursday, 9:00am: all participants gathered in the office canteen to fuel up …Continue reading this article…
- MOO Products: Business Cards
- Industry: Internet
- Creative Use Of: Printfinity
MOO and improved
September 2012, by Brad | 13 Comments – latest by Jon BAt MOO we think it should be easy to make the card you want. For many customers, a big part of their Business Card is their artwork and photography: showing off your product or yourself is a great way to make an impact. So we took a long look at the way your add photographs to your MOO cards, and decided that there were three things we wanted to try and make easier:
1. Trying out lots of photos to find the one you want on your business cards.
2. Using your pictures from multiple places: whether they’re on your own computer, one of our image partners (Flickr, Picasa, Smugmug, or Etsy), or a freshly created QR Code.
3. And being able to …Continue reading this article…
- MOO Products: Business Cards, MiniCards, QR codes
