About SNAFU Designs - Greeting Cards

About SNAFU Designs - Greeting Cards

About SNAFU Designs - Greeting Cards

About SNAFU Designs - Greeting Cards

About SNAFU Designs - Greeting Cards

How SNAFU Cards Came to Be: There was an television ad out there a year or two ago listing various companies that were started in a garage. Add SNAFU Designs to the list (however technically, it was started in a basement--of my parents’ home). Growing up, I loved to draw, and spent countless hours filling up sketch pads with cartoons of goofy looking people and animals. When it came time for college, I did what every aspiring artist does whose parents were footing the bill, I majored in economics. After graduation, I felt my creative side pulling at me again. I tried to satisfy it by finding a job in advertising, but all of the agencies I interviewed with failed to see the connection between a degree in economics and the type of creative job I wanted. With plenty of extra time on my hands, I started drawing all the time. My childhood cartooning bug had come back, and it bit me hard! I managed to sell a few cartoons to some magazines and newspapers. But the truth is, it was a hard way to make a living. The question was, how to draw cartoons and earn an income at the same time? And then it struck me, if I want to see my cartoons in print, why not just print them myself? Why not start a greeting card company? How hard could that be? So I printed up 10 designs, and headed off to New York City and the National Stationery Show to find fortune and fame. I spent three days wandering around the show wearing a blue T-shirt with white iron on letters that read, “SNAFU Designs Is LookRead their story