Tuesday, November 24
Snowflake People
by Karen RobertI’ve spotted a new trend which suddenly seems to be everywhere: people posing and using their bodies to create the shape of a snowflake. It can be an interesting way to say “Happy Holidays” without actually coming out and saying it. I found a few cards like that while researching for my book (a book compiling amazing Christmas cards) and I included two of them. This one, designed by Dan Driscoll was hands down my favorite:
It is starring Danny Driscoll. I just love this guy, I love his expressions, his poses and I love his spirit for coming up with such a great idea. His friend Ed Chiquitucto took the picture by the way.
Here is another one from my book, this one is done by the Sean and Tracy Randall of their kids:
What a great way to get multiple kids into one photo without needing them to pose.
Here’s another way of posing for snowflakes, this one was an ad for winter silks long underwear:
And, finally, this year it seems that everyone has picked up on this idea. Here is one of the Gap ads which are all over the place right now, and if it’s a Gap ad, then it’s officially a trend.
As far as I can tell, there are about 8 versions of this concept on buses and billboards everywhere I turn.
We thought we’d jump on the bandwagon and create a template for people to use here on this site. We used Dan Driscoll’s card as inspiration since his was our favorite, (thanks Dan). I still like Dan’s better, but in case you can’t get a photographer with a white backdrop to take your pictures and a graphic designer to photoshop it all together, this is the next best thing, it was designed our fabulous illustrator David Shephard:
This card is for 3 people, but we can make them for anything from 1-20 people, and we can also do blue snowflakes. This particular card is custom only, but it will only cost you a small additional fee from our regular price which starts out pretty low anyway.
So here we have it. Many ways to achieve the look of a snowflake. Who knew snowflakes were so cool (no pun intended). Be cool, be trendy, do it yourself!
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