the great big client christmas card thread :/

nickonicko
edited September 2007 in creations
So, the worst has happened. A client has asked for a Christmas card... please, no more Christmas cards :nausea:

Don't get me wrong but I love Christmas, I'm not all "Bah, humbug". However, 15 years of delivering creative ideas that amaze and stun my clients has taken its toll.

What I need is fresh inspiration, yes indeedy - link me up please before I tear out what's left of my hair :happy:

PS: Happy Christmas!
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  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    i found this yesterday, thought it was pretty rad, dude!

    http://www.fazyluckers.com/discussion/1751/design-the-copywriters-birthday-card-they-said/
  • nickonicko
    edited 11:34AM
    Thanks Chris
  • nickonicko
    edited 11:34AM
    tumbleweed
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    yeah.

    i had to do a christmas ecard last year. no doubt there'll be a request for another one coming in soon. i hate christmas, and i hate html emails. :D
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2004/12/designer_christmas_cards_2004/ ?

    (i don't really like any of them...)
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    when i was doing my course, we had a christmas card design comp. my concept was the twelve days of chrimbo, but with "graphic design / illustration" things instead of the usual partridge in a pear tree guff. some other little cunt stole my idea, produced a pretty poor version of it and won. that will teach me for not turning up to classes and handing work in on time. :D
  • bullbull
    edited 11:34AM
    ditto on not being a big fan..... my favorite is closer...thanksgiving; a nice pagan feast made smarmy and fake here but still, one's only responsibility is show up, or cook, and eat. falling asleep on the couch with your mouth hanging open is ok ... if you keep it full you don't really have to talk to anybody.... and it is nice to get together with friends, after all....

    i'll be sending blank(on the outside) cards this year. the recipients can make up whatever they want. thankfully i kept last year's file for the company, will just have to change some text....
  • nimmotnimmot
    edited 11:34AM
    when i worked at a design agency, we were going to send out cans of reindeer meat with recipes. we were in process of trying to actually track down cans of reindeer meat but we ran out of time. :(

    sorry. i've got nothing creative to bring to this thread. how many clients/people are you sending these cards out too?
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    oi mister, gisa look at what you gots so far then, eh? :)
  • nickonicko
    edited 11:34AM
    I'm too embarrassed to show.

    The brief was like "be really really creative / cute whatever" I proposed half a dozen ideas which they just didn't get. They sent me a really arsey email and finished with "wot about our lolgo on a bauble?". So I have prostituted myself and given 'em their lolgo on a bauble :happy: yay for clunts*

    *that's my new word for clients who are cunts btw
  • silentsilent
    edited September 2007
    clunts! ROFL!
  • nickonicko
    edited 11:34AM
    :happy:
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    gah!

    i did a little christmas tree shaped tag with our logo on last year (only in an html email), like a tag on a present, you know. i chuckled when i looked at it again and wondered why i'd stuck the logo on a magic tree.

    (it stayed).

    i'm actually pre-empting the christmas request, and trying to get some driving / snow ideas together. oh, driver training is quite a large part of the market that the co. write software for, so it makes sense.
  • nickonicko
    edited 11:34AM
    Next time I'm refusing to do Christmas cards for my clunts.

    I've now completed so many generations of visuals that the estimate has been exceeded. Next hurdle to jump over...
  • BiffBiff
    edited 11:34AM
    Logo in yellow snow?
  • nickonicko
    edited 11:34AM
    Ha ha brilliant
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    hehe
  • MeskaMeska
    edited 11:34AM
    My Xmas card this year will be a snowmobile sitting in a snowstorm on a snowy roadscape with snow. Perhaps i may even include some snowflakes too.

    And nicko, clunts has been added to my vocab. :D
  • nickonicko
    edited 11:34AM
    meska, needs more snow :happy:

    Glad to be of assistance with the new word. There's a patent pending on that word BTW...
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    dudes, BUMP. let's see what you've done (if anything), or tell us what you intend doing (if anything) :)
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    anyone? bueller?
  • nickonicko
    edited 11:34AM
    I'm not showing nuffin
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    damn you, show it!
  • nickonicko
    edited 11:34AM
    It's too embarrassing
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    oh, go on. it's got to be better than what i've done so far.
  • nickonicko
    edited 11:34AM
    show me yours first
  • nickonicko
    edited 11:34AM
    I bet you're making a christmas tree out of pantone swatches
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    fuck, that'd be a good idea if we were a design company.
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    also, i haven't done anything yet, which is why i'm asking you. :)
  • nickonicko
    edited 11:34AM
    The idea my clunt bought was awful. Not showing
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    lol
  • CPUCPU
    edited 11:34AM
    not realy a xmass-card.

    last three years in a row i have sent out cd-calenders.
    12 month-sheets put in a transparent jewelcase + a stand made of cardboard.

    had to do an additional instruction on how to use it, cause some clunts didnt get it :D

    all in all it was cheap and easy to do and a good way to sneak your adress on clients
    desks for a full year.

    guess i have to hurry up, if i want to do a new one this year. :surprised:
  • squapplesquapple
    edited 11:34AM
    Nice. I'd seen them before, but a great idea still.
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    anyone going to give me some ideas to use here? :D
  • squapplesquapple
    edited 11:34AM
    Are you sending gifts to the Fazyluckers Chris? :happy:
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    not at all, but i have a christmas ecard to make and send. before christmas. and i'm a little low on the ideas front for this...
  • nickonicko
    edited 11:34AM
    let's see what you got then party boy...
  • nickonicko
    edited 11:34AM
    that came out wrong
  • wormsnotwormsnot
    edited 11:34AM
    Heres mine for this year and 2005.
    Didn't have any time once tasked to get a new one approved by 5 different people with drastically different tastes... then the Commander sees it after being approved by those 5 and says thats not what he wanted at all...
    months of work for a damn Xmas card....

    imageChristmasCard" alt="xmas card" />
  • wormsnotwormsnot
    edited 11:34AM
    can't even find last years after my back up hard drive crashed. *tear*
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    for your information, no card got created today. we'll see what tomorrow brings :)
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    image

    ~sobs~
  • nickonicko
    edited 11:34AM
    For next year:
    chris said...christmas tree cards!

    image image

    just in time for christmas (next year) for me :D

    by kenn munk, but posted on the toysrevil blog
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    ^ yes
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    actually, probably not for work - they prefer to send ecards here and donate the money saved to a charidy.
  • chrischris
    edited September 2008
  • squapplesquapple
    edited 11:34AM
    what? where? and who? !!!
  • chrischris
    edited 11:34AM
    http://www.studiomono.co.uk/news.html
  • nickonicko
    edited 11:34AM
    Ahhh, Christmas. I'm refusing to do any Christmas card jobs for clients this year :wink:
  • squapplesquapple
    edited September 2008
    hey nicko, would you design me a christmas card this year? for £1,000,000? :happy:
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