Forecepts’ 2009 Christmas eCard

Posted by jessette on March 19, 2010

Last year, our design team have been blessed with an abundance of Christmas and Season’s Greeting e-cards. We can say that 2009 has been a real blast and inspite of the recession, we were able to work on really interesting projects.

Here’s some insights on our own corporate Christmas e-card from last year:

Every Christmas tree has its own unique charm that reflects the characteristic of the people who took the time to lovingly and joyfully decorate these trees. I grew up in the Philippines where Christmas is a big thing and my childhood memories is happily peppered with colourful balls, stockings, Santa Claus, gifts, and of course, Christmas trees.

It’s the sheer enjoyment of decorating this symbolic tree that has inspired me to create this concept for Forecepts’ 2009 Christmas eCard. I have worked on the illustrations for all the elements; the trees, baubles, socks, candy cane and the gifts at the bottom of the box.

We originally planned on a “create your own Christmas Tree” concept, wherein users can customize the background, the tree and the elements that each would want to place on their eCards. A personalized greeting would also be possible and in the end, the user can send the card to their friends as jpeg files. They can also invite their friends to do the same. Unfortunately though,time constraints have not allowed us to push through with this idea.

Below are some screen shots of the design. In the end, we just opted to send out a simple flash eCard. Hopefully this year, we’ll be able to push through with the original concept and share the joy of decorating your own Christmas Tree.

Forecepts 2009 eCard

Forecepts Christmas eCard 2009

Christmas Tree Illustrations

Email Etiquette

Posted by John on February 22, 2009

We used to have a client who always writes in ALL CAPS in his email requests to us. I wonder if he was too lazy to use the shift key to properly perform sentence caps or he doesn’t know how to de-activate his Caps Lock. It seemed as if he was shouting a command at us. I felt that it was really rude and annoying while he sincerely doesn’t realise it. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »

Singapore Spam Control Act 2007

Posted by John on November 3, 2008

The Spam Control Act 2007 was passed by the Singapore parliament on 12 April 2007 will come into effect on 15 June 2007. This act is to control:

1. Dictionary attack / address harvesting (those craw website to gather published email addresses or email address generator.
2. Unsolicited emails WAIT! There is more to read… read on »