The first holiday cards to arrive are from various charities, corporate organizations, political groups, or all of the above – anybody who wants to shame you into sending them some money by means of guilt – giving you a card and sometimes some address labels.* They are usually pretty unremarkable, but this one, sent from my alma mater (a lofty term to describe the place where I took a lot of night classes in order to finally obtain a BFA at the age of 40). If I were grading this design or critiquing it (perhaps as part of my art studies there) for a Holiday card for donors and alumni – something whose purpose is to get you to donate $$$ to them – it would get a solid F. Not sure what they want to do with the money. It could have gone to a graphic designer in this case...
Instead of looking warm and inviting, I want to leave the room ASAP.
It doesn’t look bad for Halloween though.
*and oh the humanity, we’ve got enough address labels to last at least 3 more lifetimes.
Just stop it.
Apparently the address label tactic still works though, so the mailbox will continue to be stuffed.
NPR: Give And Take: How The Rule Of Reciprocation Binds Us
2 comments:
Gawd yeah, looks like Xmas at the funeral parlour.
The Centerpiece of Death, and a little orange squid trying to escape. What. the. hell.
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