A few days after I posted on how I want to lose weight with Wii, Doris came up to me during lunch and offered me something that was totally unexpected and I will remember for a long, long time.
She offered me her TV and DVD player, free (you read that right!) in exchange of designing her personal card.
OF COURSE I SAID YES (though I had to ask her several times ‘are you sure? are you sure? are you sure?’…sorry, Doris I’m pretty sure that was annoying!).
I work on her designs as soon as I received Doris’ answers in response to my questions – what is the purpose, color scheme, information, etc etc etc.
The concept behind her personal card was pretty interesting, and she referred me to this site so I get a better idea. Knowing what Doris wanted the personal card for – as a contact card, a gift tag, something to scribble notes, etc, really helped me visualize (like, there should be ample white space for her to write on!)
I came up with four designs
(purple rectangular shape covers email address for privacy purpose on this blog):
Before I go further, let me just share the choice of font for her name. I initially used Century Gothic, simply to enhance the circular perimeters of the D, O, S, C and U. However visually, CG doesn’t work. I knew that the font for her name has to be sans-serif and where the x-height across all letters must be of same height.
Then it hit: DKNY. I had to look for a font similar like DKNY.
The font that I used is called PetitaBold. You can download it at DaFont.com, my number #1 source for fonts.
Anyway, back to the designs, Doris loves #4! With a few tweaks (taking out the gold outerglow, adding in “C” into her monogram), the final design was done!
I also prepared a soft copy of A4 format upon her request.
By the way, if you’re curious about the opacity grey ‘clipart’ at the background, it is actually a font (no kidding!). In DaFont.com, there is a category called Dingbats. It means that for each letter you press, a dingbat/icon/picture will come out instead of the usual font interpretation. There are 21 sub categories under Dingbats (from Aliens to Shapes to Nature), so experiment, experiment!
I also offered to print out her personal cards professionally done in Bangkok for free, so I’m really looking forward to see a hard copy of this design. :)
It’s really been a blessing to have this opportunity to do something I love and in return, get something that I really need. I’ve decided that this TV will serve a greater purpose – not only will I be able to exercise, but I’ll also try my best to document my exercise progress with Wii here in my blog, so that others may benefit (who knows!) :).
Cheers up to a great 2010!