Business Cards + Hackergotchi = Awesome

I was looking for something zesty to personalise our 2007 business cards, and stumbled on the idea of putting hackergotchis on them. At first I thought it would suck pretty badly, but on changing the effective DPI of the image (meaning no interpolation or lossy scaling), I discovered that the average hackergotchi will be about 8mm² at 300dpi. Perfect!

Has anyone made hackergotchi-powered business cards before?

My ugly mug…

Waugh Partners Business Card 2007 - Jeff

… and Pia’s beautiful wedding hackergotchi:

Waugh Partners Business Card 2007 - Pia

… and someone asked if we put anything on the back…

Waugh Partners Business Card 2007 - Back

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9 Comments

  1. Luis
    Posted January 9, 2007 at 02:52 | Permalink

    I like the t/f/m/e. I’m sure I’ve seen it before, but it hadn’t *stuck*. I’ll keep that in mind for my next set. — Luis (very happy with his moo.com cards)

  2. jdub
    Posted January 9, 2007 at 03:01 | Permalink

    Yeah, it’s good. I usually use ‘p’ instead of ‘t’, but it looked really ugly with this layout and font. ‘t’ seems so… archaic. ;-)

  3. danw
    Posted January 9, 2007 at 08:40 | Permalink

    “iNaugh Partners”? :)

  4. John
    Posted January 9, 2007 at 14:29 | Permalink

    are you guys doing iPods? wasn’t sure from the way waugh was formed

  5. numpty
    Posted January 9, 2007 at 21:18 | Permalink

    Bleah, wedding pictures should stay on mantelpieces :)

  6. Anonymous
    Posted January 10, 2007 at 01:51 | Permalink

    Where will you get these printed?

  7. jdub
    Posted January 10, 2007 at 14:27 | Permalink

    Odd question. :-) We use the local branch of a small print shop chain, We Print It. They’ve been really good with us.

  8. Cote'
    Posted January 18, 2007 at 09:39 | Permalink

    I like the back. That’s awesome.

    Did you check out cards from moo.com? I have some and they’re nice.

  9. James Governor
    Posted January 18, 2007 at 21:40 | Permalink

    i think we better rip off the text in the back… that looks great and it describes us too… ;-)

    seriously the pics are a v nice tough… great. people always says i am great with names or vice-versa. this gives both.

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  1. By People Over Process on January 18, 2007 at 07:25

    eighty-eight miles per hour ยป Business Cards + Hackergotchi = Awesome

  2. By My Personal Blog on April 5, 2007 at 13:29

    also uses this kind of icon on their site to reflect something related (for example Bill Gate’s face for Microsoft-related news). Next step is to use Hackergotchis for business card. Is it really possible? Well, Jeff Waugh had an idea of making this into business card and the result is very cool. I guess soon we will see hackergotchis embedded in business card :D

  3. By Planet Terasi on April 5, 2007 at 14:57

    also uses this kind of icon on their site to reflect something related (for example Bill Gate’s face for Microsoft-related news). Next step is to use Hackergotchis for business card. Is it really possible? Well, Jeff Waugh had an idea of making this into business card and the result is very cool. I guess soon we will see hackergotchis embedded in business card :D