It is customary for foreigners living abroad to have calling cards displaying their families vital statistics; names, phone numbers, email addresses, house address, etc. They can be especially useful here, in Shanghai, where few people speak English and where giving directions to taxi drivers can easily deposit you on the wrong side of the city for the mere tonal mispronunciation of a street name. It is also a prime opportunity to design something cool, communicative and representative of our family. Now, four months into our stay here, we are finally ready to send ours to the press. We unveil M,A & O.
Over time, the need to be expedient has lead me to sign emails and letters with M, A & O (Matt, Anne & Otto). The look and sound of M, A & O grew on us and we decided to use this assemblage of letters as the primary graphic on our calling card. We chose the color red, of course, our favorite color as well what would be the "official" color of China if there were one. We also kind of like the subtle word play of MAO, as in Chairman Mao Zedong, you can't get more Chinese than this tyrannical man who is regarded by most Chinese to have been the savior of the nation. We can't wait to start passing these out to our acquaintances so that they may easily find their way to us and our home.
