I know, I have been talking about this since the last two posts but it’s time to make that move.
The design ideas need to be translated onto paper now. You have armed yourself with referrals from friends and relatives. Names of potential candidates and their contacts are listed in alphabetical order or by their reputation.
In this day and age, you can drop an email to the prospect if talking on the phone proves a jittery affair. A simple query about what design style you fancy can make you stumped silly grappling for an answer, silence looming in the air for a few seconds. Even though you think you know it, everything will be turned upside down when you are facing the architect.
We were still in London when we contacted our architect, or to be grammatically correct, the guy we hoped would agree to be our architect. It was really just a phone call away but time difference would mean that I had to time it right. Ring him in the evening then I might catch him just as he’s about to have a nightcap or something. Or make the call very early UK time so that I would reach him nicely just as he reached his office. But the truth was I didn’t want to do either. I just did not want to get on the phone because I didn’t know what to expect out of the conversation. Rejection can be cruel and that’s some scary thought.
In order to squeeze into his possibly busy schedule and make our intrusion worth considering, we decided that the contact to be made had to be somewhat special. Email would be too ordinary. Snail mail would be so passé. A phone call, well, let’s not go there again.
Then we thought of this scheme that we thought would definitely stop him in his footsteps. The idea was this: what if we sent him a series of postcards? Make that one postcard every day. Wow, that’s a brilliant idea we thought to ourselves.
And so we massaged that idea further. We actually wrote some lines together, me and my other half, to use as a guide. Satisfied that we had something going, we took no time to go down to town to look for the cards. As we were going to write the special messages, the cards we wanted had to be those with blank content. Meanwhile, the images on the front cover did not have to be necessarily strong but they had to be meaningful and relevant to our case. Here’s what we had settled with:
Post card #1: This was what we wrote: Grand Designs? No, Small Projects. Signoff: Us @ 38 MPC (Apple iPhone 4s)
Post card #2: Kevin McCloud? No, Kevin M.L. Signoff: Us @ 38 MPC (Apple iPhone 4s)
Post card #3: Opulent? No, just straight lines. Signoff: Us @ 38 MPC (Apple iPhone 4s)
Post card #4: But we like your mailbox better. Signoff: Us @ 38 MPC (Apple iPhone 4s)
We'll share with you further details in the next post. So what’s your scheme going to be?
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