08/07/2026
Well, here’s an oldie!
Imagine if you will, it was the mid ‘90s and regular, normal human people were getting gen-u-ine cellular telephones*.
Yet the conundrum: how does one make their clients aware of the phone number? What’s a freelance graphic designer to do?
Well, in my case it seemed to require creating a silly, faux vintage movie poster, printing them and mailing them out.
In envelopes.
With stamps on them.
Hoping the new number would be scribbled onto your card in their Rolodex™.
*Why yes, it was a Motorola™ ‘brick flip-phone’.
(Thanks Tim Marriott for sending this to me today. You seem to be my inadvertant personal archivist!)
