The Best Designer Tool Everyone Should Get
We read a lot of different articles regarding the best tools every designer should get to advance themselves into the designer market. Reading through all those, I have yet to find one that recommends the tool I will be covering extensively in this blog. The best tool every designer should get is the Cricut. I know I know, when you hear of a Cricut you instantly think of scrapbookers and creative individuals who want to create cards and DIY-ers simply due to the fact that for some reason that is Cricut's target market, which is not a very good idea by them but we won't get into that. In this blog I will be covering the Cricut Explore family, as the Maker isn't necessary at this time at the price point of $500.
What is a Cricut?
This is a Cricut, it's pronounced (Cricket, or Cry-cut, or what you decide to call it.) This tiny machine is packed with a designers dream that nobody has discovered yet. Gold foil? Yup. Letterpress? Yup. Metallic Markers? Yup. Cutting? Yup. Many other options I didn't list?Yup. This thing does everything a designer needs in his/her life. From Cricut's website itself, they describe the Cricut as follows; "Big value, WOW-worthy results. With the flexibility to cut a wide range of craft materials and the precision to deliver exactly what you need, the best-selling Cricut Explore line of smart cutting machines make DIY easy, fun, and – dare we say – amazing."
The Cricut Explore family feature details from Cricut's website:
Why do I recommend it?
Now that we have a basis as to what a Cricut is, why do I recommend every designer to get this for their home? Simple, it adds a whole new dynamic to your tools that you already have. Before I purchased mine I constantly questioned myself why would I need one, what's the point until I got one and it all made sense. Every designer should get a Cricut because it will allow you to personalize and take everything you make a step further. An example of my favorite project I have done so far with my Cricut is with my business cards quite frankly. I purchased my business cards from moo.com, and I thought they were amazing and wanted to try to refresh the view of business cards by giving the individual receiving one from me an experience. So with my Cricut, I made a little business card sleeve, with my logo cut out in it, also have a black-on-black logo vinyl on the back. I started out with 100 business cards and from there I'm down to 40 in less than a day. Freelancing might be the best route to take when using a Cricut, as it is a cheap, inexpensive way of making yourself stand out against your competition. As it allows you to take any project a little bit further as I did with my own business cards. Everything to do with my business cards was made with my Cricut besides the business cards themselves (moo.com).
There is a lot you can accomplish with a Cricut, you'll just have to get one, explore it, and love it. This was just a quick insight into a small project I have accomplished with my Cricut and wanted to share it with you hoping you can find more of a reason to get a Cricut for yourself.
Convinced? You can buy a Cricut on Amazon to get the best deals. Often times it's on sale.
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I'm not affiliated or under Cricut at all, this is my own personal response to their product.
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