{"id":70,"date":"2020-12-09T02:33:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T02:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2020-12-09T02:33:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T02:33:42","slug":"stationary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/09\/stationary\/","title":{"rendered":"Stationary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a graphic designer, it\u2019s important to establish yourself as a brand before you go out and try to start making other people\u2019s brands. Not only will establishing your own identity show off your skill of branding to potential employers, but it also should reflect yourself as a designer, it\u2019s one of the few times as a designer where you\u2019ll be able to stay completely true to your personal style. When making your own brand, one part of the brand you can\u2019t forget to make is your stationary (business card, letterhead, envelope), as it is the first thing most people will see of your branding.\u00a0So today I wanted to look at the three most important pieces of a graphic designers stationary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Business Card<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"586\" src=\"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Stationary-03-1024x586.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Stationary-03-1024x586.png 1024w, https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Stationary-03-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Stationary-03-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Stationary-03.png 1051w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Your business card is the most important piece of your stationary, as it is something your potential client\/employer will see first about you, if you\u2019re a graphic designer with a poor business card, it\u2019s going to give a very early poor indication of your skills as a designer. It\u2019s important that you get all the information you want onto your business card, giving anybody who sees it multiple choices of how to contact you and a link to your website, so that they can see even more of your work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Letterhead<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Stationary-02-791x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Stationary-02-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Stationary-02-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Stationary-02-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Stationary-02-1187x1536.png 1187w, https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Stationary-02-1583x2048.png 1583w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Your letterhead isn\u2019t something every client may see before they hire you, but they\u2019ll most likely see it afterwords. Your letterhead will be very important as a layout for your invoices with clients, so while not something a client will use to decide whether or not to hire you, but giving your client an undesigned invoice seems unprofessional and designing one isn\u2019t that much work after you\u2019ve got your letterhead together. Don\u2019t forget that the letterhead has many uses beyond your invoices as well, so it is important to make even if you don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to use it for invoices..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Envelope<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Stationary-01-1024x445.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Stationary-01-1024x445.png 1024w, https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Stationary-01-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Stationary-01-768x334.png 768w, https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Stationary-01-1536x667.png 1536w, https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Stationary-01-2048x890.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A designed&nbsp; envelope is a nice touch to make any piece of mail you send feel a bit more professional and cohesive with your brand. It\u2019s very important to not go overboard with an envelope design, there are strict guidelines that you have to follow when designing an envelope that the US Postal Service has, so make sure to keep them in mind when designing something you plan to mail. Something simplistic is ideal with the envelope, but make sure it still fits in with the other stationary that you have, as cohesion is key between all your branding, and the envelope can be hard to fit in with the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a graphic designer, it\u2019s important to establish yourself as a brand before you go out and try to start..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noahpottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}