Dr. Pink Retires
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My boss of four years, Dr. Joe Pink, was set to retire. He had pushed his retirement date off multiple times - I think he liked to keep the president of the company on his toes. This party had been in the works since I started working for him, so the invitations had to be grand but made in-house in our facility.
These weren't abnormal parameters for a project - I had been creating print materials for the company with small budgets my whole time there. Using only the kickass copier that was newly purchased, scrapbook cardstock, an industrial papercutter, and sticky dots, we were more than satisfied with the final outcome that was mailed to absolutely everyone in our membership.
Dr. Pink prides himself on being the man who is also "one of the girls." He ran the Training & Education Department, oversaw relations with the various trades housed in our facility, yet liked to spend time shopping for neckties and suits. I picked out four different patterns for the invitations - tiny little dots, some pinstripes, geometric arrows, and a pretty little floral. While everyone was hesistant about the floral pattern, in the end, it was the favorite of the bunch.
I created the graphic of Dr. Pink's facial hair and glasses that would be used for both the evites and the printed invitations. As you can see, he seems to have had the same hair cut for his whole career, though it's thinning a tiny bit more nowadays. (He likes to call it his "side part" versus a "comb-over.")
The print invitations were a bit more of a challenge because of the supplies we had to work with. After many, many, many cups of coffee at the coffee shop, coupled with the delusion from lack of sleep, I found a way to efficiently use 12" x 12" scrapbook cardstock to make postcard sized invitations. There's just this great sense of satisfaction when you don't have to pay the full postage of letter-sized mail.
The final product resulted in two invitations per sheet with six cuts on the papercutter. The individual invitations required two snips with a pair of scissors, two folds, and one sticky dot.
We mixed it up and sent out four different invitations with the patterns picked. My poor assistants were a bit miffed at me while assembling the invitations, but once everything went out, everyone was all smiles.
Dr. Pink is now happily retired, concentrating solely on his golf game and granddaughters. He still retains the same hair style as he did in 1991.
