You'll love our Personal Service this holidays!

The holiday season is coming up fast so here's a reminder about our Personal Service - just let us know what type of card you want - holiday or other - either your own idea or one of our designs, and we do the work. It couldn't be easier.
Go to www.365-Cards.com, click on the link and you will be directed to our Facebook site or go directly to www.365-Cards.com on Facebook itself.
Check these useful question and answers and get started:

1. What does Personal Service mean?
365-Cards will design any card to your specifications. Your text, theme, colors, and photos. We will supply you with three samples to choose from. Browse through our collection for ideas.
OR Choose a design from our collection and tell us how you would like it personalized.

2. How do I order?
You will find us here on Facebook where you can browse our whole collection of greeting card designs, organized into clearly marked albums.
Clicking on a card will give you specifications for that design – name, size, price etc.
• Choose a card from the collection – decide how you want to personalize it. Email info@threesixtyfivecards.com with the name of the design and the details for the card. If you have photos, email jpegs of good quality to info@threesixtyfivecards.com

• If it’s a custom design you want, email info@threesixtyfivecards.com with your request and we will design to your specifications.

How do I pay?
Payment is by check or through PayPal.

How long does it take and how do you ship?
You will receive your cards in 5-7 days from the time of ordering. Prior to final order, allow 1-2 days for personalization, 3-5 for custom orders.
We ship through UPS Ground, unless otherwise requested.

Shipping Prices
Orders up to $75.00 is $8.95
$76.00 - $150.00 is $10.95
$151+ is $13.95

Do you have a Refund Policy ?
You are responsible for the accuracy of your order. We strongly encourage you to carefully review your final proof as we print exactly what you have approved. If an error occurs that is directly our responsibility, we will refund your money, give you a credit for a future order or re-print your order.

Our latest office companion.

We have had company in our 365-Cards office
for the last few weeks. Rio has been taking a break
from the city life of New York and enjoying the sights and smells of New England in a heat wave.
Rio is a "designer dog"! Part Cairn and part Poodle.
She is smart, loving and cute as a button. She loves walks, people, her toys and most of all she loves her owner who is a busy New York photographer. We shall miss her around the office when she leaves but I know her owner will love to have her back.

Come back again soon Rio!

Trends and Crazes

Ever notice how trends and crazes never go away, they merely go dormant
for a while, then reappear in a slightly different form.

Remember Friendship Bracelets and those hippie cord bracelets?

Well, they're back.....

For grownups with money to spare, Links of London have a great
collection of sterling silver, hand-woven Friendship Bracelets which
are an iconic nod to the friendship bracelets we made as children.
And they offer a very up market version of the cord bracelet at a
whopping $135.00!

And what makes the latest craze of Silly Bandz so popular? I can't answer
that....go ask a kid!

Summer, summer, summer!

ENJOY THE SECOND DAY OF SUMMER!

The World Cup!

It's the World Cup! Are you watching with the rest of the world, or are you just plain bewildered?
If so, here is a book for you....

Soccer and Philosophy: Beautiful Thoughts on the Beautiful Game
Ted Richards (Editor)
Critic John Heilpern's article in The Wall Street Journal put's the game of soccer into a "philosophical nutshell" which will amuse, educate or totally confuse you!

He says - For those of you who remain bewildered by the mysterious global appeal of the world's most popular sport, I can guarantee that this book will bewilder you even more—but in a good way!

In a blissfully funny, vintage Monty Python sketch, there is a soccer game between Germany and Greece in which the players are leading philosophers. The always formidable Germany, captained by "Nobby" Hegel, boasts the world-class attackers Nietzsche, Heidegger and Wittgenstein, while the wily Greeks, captained by Socrates, field a dream team with Plato in goal, Aristotle on defense and—a surprise inclusion—the mathematician Archimedes.

Toward the end of the keenly fought game, during which nothing much appears to happen except a lot of thinking, the canny Socrates scores a bitterly disputed match winner. Mayhem ensues! The enraged Hegel argues in vain with the referee, Confucius, that the reality of Socrates' goal is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, while Kant holds that, ontologically, the goal existed only in the imagination via the categorical imperative, and Karl Marx—who otherwise had a quiet game—protests that Socrates was offside.

For the full article, check this link Postulates of the Pitch. Don't miss it!

This one is on my summer reading list.

Take the time to show you care.

We are often reminded by our techy friends that digital communication
is the only way that friends and family want to connect. So why, we say
to them, do we have so many people requesting personalized printed
invitations, birth announcements, messages of love, holiday cards,
wedding invitations and the like?

The Greeting Card Association gives us the answer - why so many of us
love to receive a card in the mail rather than an impersonal email. It means
that:

• Someone has taken the time to send a special message
• Adds a personal touch to special occasions and holidays
• Connects us to many types of people including co-workers, teachers, family and friends.
• Helps us put our emotions into words
• Provides a tangible keepsake to document special moments in our lives
• Helps us reach across generation, gender and cultural communication gaps
• Provides comfort to someone and makes sad times less painful
• Boosts emotional well-being through reaching out to others
• Makes a loved one feel special
• Preserves memories of connections with friends and family
• Show someone you care!

An interview with Broncolor - NYC Photographer Daymion Mardel

We love to talk about our favorite photographer - check this great interview with Broncolor.

An interview with Broncolor - NYC Photographer Daymion Mardel

When did I know I was going to be a photographer? I guess the better question would be, when did I know I wanted to be an artist? You frequently hear the old cliché, “It’s in the blood,” but for me, I really think it is. My Mum and siblings are all artists of various forms. All of us make a living doing what we love best.

I was born in England in 1973. When I was almost 9 years old, my Mum and Dad pulled my brother, sister, and I out of school. I know that may sound crazy to anyone else, but it was a decision that helped shape the rest of my life.

Along with two of my siblings, we set off in a Volkswagon bus to tour Western Europe for almost a year (my older brother, already in college, joined us throughout various legs of the trip when he could). We had lessons on the bus, and Mum required that we keep a journal of our experiences, along with scrapbooking ticket stubs, postcards, and our own sketches.

That was my introduction to the classics. Moving from campground to rest area to campground, we hopped from museum to gallery to monument, learning about European art and architecture, and meeting several interesting characters along the way (probably why I see the NY subway as more of a social gathering place to make friends, rather than a claustrophobic nightmare of strangers). Although I’m not sure I fully appreciated seeing my first Botticelli at such a young age, I can see now how it defined even my earliest notions of beauty, and has remained with me ever since.

After a year in a bus, we relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, where I was enrolled in public school. Though we were initially the odd kids who talked funny and called rain boots “Wellies” and ate wobbly tarts for breakfast, I quickly found my niche in a tightly-knit group of friends who have remained some of my dearest ever since. I may have dual citizenship and was born across the pond, but you can take one look at my collection of hats and know that I call Beantown my home.

After graduating from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a degree in family studies, I enrolled at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara.

Following my third year at Brooks, I was accepted for a three-month internship in New York City with Richard Avedon. Within the first week of the internship, Avedon asked if I would take a full-time position in his studio. Without finishing at Brooks, I moved to New York with literally nothing to my name. My suitcases were lost in the flight, and so my brother had to ship hand-me-downs to the cramped east village apartment I shared with eight other roommates, who’d been willing to squeeze me in to cut down the rent.

Within a few years, I became both first assistant and studio manager for Richard Avedon, an experience that could fill volumes and volumes of my own memoir. Needless to say, it was an apprenticeship that impacted me in profound measures I cannot even yet fully assess. Having lost my own father several years back, it was very much like losing a second father. More than just an American icon to me, he was my mentor, and a very dear friend. I was in San Antonio assisting him on the Democracy project for the New Yorker on October 1, 2004. Words still fail to express what a loss to the world was taken that day.


Though I was eager to help establish the Avedon Foundation in any way that I could to help maintain his legacy, I knew that it was time for me take the wealth of knowledge and inspiration with which I have been so graciously blessed, and begin to find my own voice in the world of photography. After a brief freelance assisting job with the great acclaimed photographer, Henry Leutwyler, I transitioned into a full time freelance photographer. I credit Leutwyler for a lot of things, but especially giving me the confidence to leave the assisting world and inspiring me to own my own broncolor lighting equipment.

The past five years as a photographer have been thrilling, sometimes terrifying, but continually affirming that I absolutely love doing what I do. I may not yet own my own studio, and with freelancing there are few contracts to secure my income is guaranteed tomorrow. But with editorial credits like American Vogue, and Advertising clients that include J.Crew, Coach, and Ann Taylor, etc. I certainly can’t complain. In between my hectic schedule, I am continuing to pursue my own self assigned personal projects. I’ve been blessed to make a living doing what I love more than anything, and to do it with the most incredible lighting in the world; broncolor.


(Daymion Mardel shoots primarily fashion & portrait photography. More of his images can be seen at http://www.daymion.com/ or through his agency Rona Siegel Artists.)