First, the Cut:  You’re going to want to line up your paper with the ruler, or use a fun little cuttin’ device such as this.  Quick slice, being very careful not to cut off the very valuable information such as contact, phone number, and website.  If you don’t have a photo cutter, you could always use a pair of scissors, or, a nice hard fold, and your own spit and elbow grease.  Whatever floats your boat …and then… you have your perfect square.

Next, the Fold:  So, you’re going to want the white side facing up at you, you’re going to fold the paper in half, matching corner to corner, fold it back, flip it around, and do the same thing going the other way.  That should give you a nice guideline, you’ll have a good little X in the middle.  You’re going to flip it over to the white side again, so its looking up at you, and you’re going to want to start folding the outside corners of the paper in, so that they’re touching the X, but not overlapping it, because if it overlaps, it’ll make it more difficult to fold, and then when you try to  pop it up and make it look sharp, your colleagues will laugh at you, because you can’t even make a quotation matrix correctly, and you’re an architect, you get paid to do these kinds of artistic things!  Creative Sources Photography doesn’t want that for you, so make sure you keep your creases tight, and your corners close to, but not touching, that X, like so.  When you’re finished, you should have “Form” “Function” “Shape” and “Art”  all looking up at you, as well as the names of some very prominent architects.  Then you’re going to flip it to the other side, and then you’re going to want to take these little gray corners, and you’re going to want to make them “kiss” the middle, again and again, like so.  Once you’ve achieved all of this, and made sure your creases are super sharp, now comes the fun!

Now, the Fun:  Flip it closed, pick it up, maybe finesse it a little, check that its good.  Then pop your fingers into the slots, like so…  now you have the highly-coveted Creative Sources Quotation Matrix!  Now that you’ve finished your Creative Sources Quotation Matrix, may you be inspired to great design… and more importantly, have fun!