We were contacted by Erin, a marketing representative from
Utility Telephone, who asked if we could make some custom cookies for their San Luis Obispo office. (Utility Telephone focuses exclusively on services for businesses, and serves Internet and telephone service to businesses throughout California and Nevada.)
Erin told me that UT's multiple offices had been working hard to quickly complete the 'branding' on various projects. It seems the SLO Office isn't so 'slow' after all, and they completed the assignment faster than the other offices! It was Utility Telephone's desire to show their appreciation to the SLO employees by surprising them with some treats from XOXO Cookies.
Erin's idea was to give the employees cookies which represented their business. So we decided on telephone and logo designs. We knew immediately what the logo was going to look like, but the telephone was trickier. Modern telephones can look quite different from the old standards, and many people in offices are now sporting headsets rather than the older handset models. We thought it could be risky to design a phone too far removed from the well-known standard phone icon, so we didn't! But we haven't had much call for phone cookies, and we had to get creative.
Here is the basic phone design we came up with. I cut it out of a used plastic container. I was prepared to hand-cut each telephone when the hubsters offered to try his hand at reshaping an extra square cutter we had.
It doesn't look much like a phone yet, does it? A little lopsided maybe? Keep scrolling. . .
Every iconic phone had a cord on its handset, so the template had to allow room for a cord, too! It doesn't look so crazy now, does it? The cord was actually one of the harder elements to this cookie. It had to be edible and it had to be curly. We tried different ideas (including black licorice) and we finally settled on hand-rolling our own chocolate curled phone cords.
Much better now, isn't it?
Erin had sent us some enclosure notes for the bags and asked that they be delivered bright and early one morning. When she told me that someone would be there at 7:00 am, I assumed we'd find one groggy looking person still turning on lights and equipment. But this office has it going on! We were greeted by a couple of smiling and surprisingly bright-eyed employees already going about their business! No lack of energy in this office! My guess is their reward was well-earned.
Congratulations to the San Luis Obispo office.
We wish you continued success!
