The Pleasure of the Padded Envelope

Is there anything as satisfying than finally shipping off the final version of a project for a client? You've worked long, hard hours, you've gone back and forth a million times, sometimes muttering the occasional unmentionable under your breath when you don't necessarily agree with a decision, but that's all in the past now. Whatever it is: it's done, you're happy and so is your client (hopefully it ends this way at least).

But even if your work exists entirely in ones and zeros, like with web design, it's nice to have that "shipping it out" feeling of completion too, for all parties involved. Or so says Debbie Campbell of Red Kite Creative, who was kind enough to send us over some of her work, beautifully packaged in Jewelboxing Standards, and her reason why she sounds out finished websites on disc. Here's from Debbie:

"I'm a web designer, and when I launch a project I always create a production CD for my client. I like to create a nice-looking package that reiterates both my 'brand' and my design skills, so the client is left with a tangible piece of my work to keep (and not just a digital website)."

"Jewelboxing is superior in every way to the regular CD cases I'd been using. I like the heavy weight of the plastic, and I really like the templating system. It's easy to use and the quality and elegance of the finished product shows off my work nicely."

Here's to hoping trips to the post office are in the near future for those in Encinitas, Venice, Chicago, Poughkeepsie, Berkeley, Houston, Santa Monica, San Francisco, New York, Oakland, Decatur, Victoria, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Port Washington, Sydney, Winston-Salem, Tampa, Louisville, Granite City, Copenhagen, Williamsburg and Vancouver.

Ice Cold

We hear from Jewelboxing users all the time who are packaging their albums, mix discs and demo reels, and we love it because those are the kinds of things we designed the system for. But we also really dig getting letters in from people like Pete Freitag of Foundeo, a company dedicated to creating software for web development, because it proves that there's this whole other world of different outlets for using the cases beyond music, photos, and films. Here's from Pete:

"Foundeo's fusionKit is a CD packed full of software for ColdFusion web developers (ColdFusion is a programming language for building web applications made by Adobe). It features several components handy for building Web 2.0 applications with ColdFusion."

"We choose Jewelboxing because we wanted to create an attractive product, easily. We were intrigued by the Photoshop templates, and they really made it easy to get the job done. It took just a few hours to get the first prototype printed. The jewel cases alone help make the product attractive, and unique. Overall I think going with Jewelboxing was a big win for our brand."

We hope the wins are coming in equally as big for the brands, businesses, individuals, or otherwise, in Washington DC, Grand Rapids, La Jolla, Aurora, Corte Madera, Cambria Heights, San Francisco, San Diego, Columbia, Ballwin, Salinas, Plano, New York, Newton, and Austin.

Jewelboxing, Friend to the Small Business

If you go back to the very first post on this blog, you'll read that one of the primary reasons we started Jewelboxing was because we were a small firm looking for packaging that looked good and was simple enough to use it quickly and easily with outstanding results. So it always makes us happy to hear from someone like Daniel Scrivner, owner of a small firm himself, who's been using Jewelboxing with, yep, outstanding results. Here's from Daniel:

"Scrivner Creative is a very small studio (only me and my brother) that specializes in creative solutions for everything from branding to web design, and our specialty: flexible and secure websites and backends. Last year, we started looking around for a cool way to create and package our showreel to get out to potential clients and businesses in our area. We were looking for something that was relatively inexpensive and could be easily updated, as we're a relatively new business and are changing all the time. So we looked around, and found a ton of options, but most were either too expensive (in the $1,000s) or weren't going to be easy or cheap to update (i.e. using a professional printer for packaging). But then we finally stumbled upon Jewelboxing, and found exactly what we were looking for."

"Using Jewelboxing we were able to design, print, put together and send out our showreels whenever necessary. It took advantage of the tools we already had in house -- like a great color printer. And just worked perfectly for us."

"For the design of our showreel, we wanted to create something that caught the eye and made the recipient want to check out the entire showreel. Denis Radenkovic of 38one took care of the eye catching part with his amazing illustration on the front cover. And we handled the more subtle details of text, color and organization."

Here's hoping for similar results in firms of all sizes in Adairsville, Atlanta, Los Angeles, St. Andrews, Fairfield, Downey, Milwaukee, Roseville, Aurora, Prospect, St. Louis, Boonville, Ridgewood, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Plantation, New York, Broomfield, Greenville, Cambridge, Chicago, Honolulu, Montreal, West Hollywood, El Monte, Dallas, London, Nottingham, Randallstown, Spokane, and Waukesha.

Have a seat on the couch and I'll show you our vacation photos. Hand me the remote.

Our friends at PicturetoTV in Singapore have a cool software product that allows PC users to easily and professionally convert their photo archives into slideshows that can be played on their televisions. Actually 'slideshows' is not really the right word, since the final product can be full of audio, high-end transitions and lots of other effects. Plus --and this is how its relevant to Jewelboxing --mastering the presentation to disc with an interactive menu is a snap. The product is called MemoriesOnTV.

Once you're done with all that, you know where to go to create a sweet package for the disc.

If you can make it in Aberdeen, Glendale Heights, Enfield, NYC, Chicago or Tokyo you can make it anywhere.