DigitalMediaMagik.com 2010 Business Cards

During 2009 I got an excellent response to the panorama format that I used for my 2009 DigitalMediaMagik business cards, so this year I decided to do something very similar except that I used a different panorama. Shown on the right, my 3^rd-generation card design features a countryside vista from small town Vermont. For more details click thru the graphic on the right or click here to see that panorama in the Panorama Viewer.

Following last year's paradigm, the goal with the 2010 card was to deliver a more accurate picture of what DigitalMediaMagik.com is all about. The card reflects the two aspects of my business as they have evolved — website design and working with digital media. In addition, this year's card presents my LinkedIn profile (www.LinkedIn.com/in/KevinGenePammett) in an effort to further promote my services as a Principal C#, .Net and Java software engineer — possibly outside of the context of my own company.

As I expected last year, creating the design for these cards — the dilemma of which panorama to use — gave me the idea of using multiple panoramas in a new masthead for my company site which has featured a panorama animation since April '09 when I came out with a face lift for my DigitalMediaMagik.com web site.

Picture Stamps — Gifts that Get Given Away Twice

Have you ever heard of Stamps.com — in the USA — or its Canadian counterpart ? Click thru for details, or… the take away is that you can create your own US or Canadian postage stamps which can then be used exactly like real stamps. You can do this for any number of promotions / reasons, including that they make excellent gifts, as I did for my extended family last Christmas.

So… what's the connection with DigitalMediaMagik.com ?

Following the tagline “You Imagine it… We make it Happen !! ” — on your behalf, we could do all of the image-editing and other cyberspace work to create one or more stamps from pictures that you provide. When the gift arrives, it looks like the familiar 'book' of stamps shown on the right.
























A step beyond the stamps themselves — also available as a DigitalMediaMagik.com service — would be that I/we create a web page using the wildly flashing 3D cube navigator shown on the left, the idea being that "the story", as told by this "experience", is part of your promotion or gift. Of course… that 6-chapter story could be anything that you can imagine.

Shown here purely as an example of such a story… use the 3D cube navigator (on the left) to explore the set of stamps I created :
• Move your mouse into the center of the green background frame (to the left) to “drive” and “look at” each of the images.
• As you move the mouse (within the 3D cube frame) you are in “drive mode” — doing manipulation via mouse movement, without mouse clicks. E.g. move the mouse towards any corner of the frame and the cube begins rotating in that direction. The rotation follows you around as you move the mouse, and is faster/slower depending on how close you are to the center of the cube.
• Click on any cube face; it "zooms out", showing you the stamp image. A subsequent single click continues the rotation.
• Double Click on an image face to 'read that chapter'. In this case more detail means you see the picture the stamp was made from). When finished, your browser's "Back" button returns you to the cube navigator.
• In “drive mode” the rotation stops whenever you move the mouse outside of the green background space, and resumes when you re-enter it.

For an example where the 'chapters' are real stories, check out my "life story" done with the 3D cube navigator.

My New Business Cards

Coincident with “The Ides of March”… as of today I can present a sneak preview of my new business card, shown on the right. My 2^nd-generation design, the goal with this card was to deliver a more accurate picture of what DigitalMediaMagik.com is all about. The card reflects the two aspects of my business as they have evolved — website design and working with digital media. Some website designs call for both of these activities, but basically they are two different lines of business. Likewise my products vs consulting activities are just another way to reach a larger clientele.

Because the art of creating panoramas is typically just a little beyond the reach of most individuals, I have long wanted a business card that features a panorama, even though there is a huge difference in the typical print size for the two formats. Be that as it may, I was pleasantly surprised to see that even the panorama caption comes out readable on the card itself, which you can clearly see if you click thru the above graphic.

Creating the design for these cards — the dilemma of which panorama to use — gave me the idea of using multiple panoramas in a new masthead for my company site where I plan to feature a panorama animation. As an added bonus, the back side of each card shows the year in which DigitalMediaMagik.com is going to burst onto the multimedia scene as a powerhouse of personal expression and communication.