I like it. It's clear, simple. The primal colours are inviting and youthful, the sans serif is in keeping with this but formal enough to suit a variety of people and occasions. It will, no doubt, appeal to birds. ;-)
Jacko had a neat and tidy business card too somewhere, with just his "Hopper" photo on it. Again, a nice example of how he's branding himself using his card.
I wouldn't go so far as saying that these are good examples for you to use. You need to figure out what your brand is and then get a business card which projects that brand.
Neat and stock-looking may not be your deal. Then don't go with it!
...but when you figure out what you want, work with someone who knows graphic design/marketing to help you with your branding, including your business cards.
While you're at it will you evaluate mine? I just happened to working on it today. It's still a work in progress and I haven't made a final decision on the photo to put on it.
While you're at it will you evaluate mine? I just happened to working on it today. It's still a work in progress and I haven't made a final decision on the photo to put on it.
But, it’s not finished yet. How can we properly rub your nose in your amateurish attempts at graphic design if the work isn’t even finished yet?
While you're at it will you evaluate mine? I just happened to working on it today. It's still a work in progress and I haven't made a final decision on the photo to put on it.
But, it’s not finished yet. How can we properly rub your nose in your amateurish attempts at graphic design if the work isn’t even finished yet?
While you're at it will you evaluate mine? I just happened to working on it today. It's still a work in progress and I haven't made a final decision on the photo to put on it.
Not feeling that text or the color...sorry, I immediately thought of Sesame Street! I mean, they're loveable characters and all...but....
:-)
While you're at it will you evaluate mine? I just happened to working on it today. It's still a work in progress and I haven't made a final decision on the photo to put on it.
But, it’s not finished yet. How can we properly rub your nose in your amateurish attempts at graphic design if the work isn’t even finished yet?
While you're at it will you evaluate mine? I just happened to working on it today. It's still a work in progress and I haven't made a final decision on the photo to put on it.
My opinions (in case they are worth anything)...
* Consider removing "with" in-front of "personality" so that it reads "people... pictures... personality"
* The number of colors and font weights is a little off-putting.
* I like the photo, I like the three words mentioned above, I think the rest needs some re-arrangement. Perhaps even make the photo a bigger component of the image - almost the entire card under the title and then fit the text beside and partially under it.
* In terms of color versus black+white (your card seems to have both elements) I would have to know more about the type of business you want to promote.
While you're at it will you evaluate mine? I just happened to working on it today. It's still a work in progress and I haven't made a final decision on the photo to put on it.
But, it’s not finished yet. How can we properly rub your nose in your amateurish attempts at graphic design if the work isn’t even finished yet?
This one is good, only thing that detracts from the card is the vertical line/yellow and white circle. It is too close to the main image of the milk drop. Also, the milk drop is such a strong image, you really don't need the circle/vertical line detracting from it. I would just leave it out, and keep the horizontal line the way it is.
Just my 2cents
Originally posted by crabappl3:
I've had good response to my card. I think the uniqueness of the background image and the layout works well.
Like others have mentioned, think pro. Less is more.
Those of you with busy cards and text that is hard to read; think rolodex! What about your card will allow someone to read it every single time they flip thru the thing. Sure it looks good when it is being examined -- all alone -- and with plenty of time; but how well does it grab you when you have maybe half a second to look at it. Can you even find your name on it in that length of time?
The more times a prospective client reads your name, the more likely they are going to think of you when they need the service you provide.
But this is also tempered with the more times they are stopped dead in their tracks while searching for someone offering a service you don't; the more likely they are to toss your card out of annoyance.
It seems that in this day and age, you dont need the entire //www.theperfectpose.com crap. Just keep it simple and make it easy to remember and use capitalization to help seperate the words.
so instead of:
www.theperfectpose.com
simply use
ThePerfectPose.com
Since a person can't cut-n-paste the web url from your business card to their web browser, shorter is sweeter. It helps a bit for the user to remember your site. Helps break up the URL into useable and recognizable words that is easy to remember. Cut out the //www. part and capitalize the beginning of each word.
I know that you didn't use the // but others showed examples where they did. Killing two birds with one stone here.
On a side note, I'd hate for you guys to see my cards. :)
It's plane jane simple.
On plain white stock and it simply list's my company name and the URL and me as the photographer. I kept it this way to be cheap since it's possible for me to hand out hundreds of cards in one day.
I plan on making two cards eventually.
one card that I will give out to the 'important' people that I really want to impress. Then a second card for the general masses (which I use now).
It seems that in this day and age, you dont need the entire //www.theperfectpose.com crap. Just keep it simple and make it easy to remember
But you might also want to consider that many peopel WILL therefore type yourURL.com into the address bar. Most hosts handle this fine, defaulting to the WWW folder but some will get confused and throw a 404.
I personally still use www. on the beginning, I for one thinks it looks far better and adds a certain balance to a printed URL
Dont let Setz fool you...this is his real card..i picked it up the other day...
But seriously folks, "while we're at it" does anyone have an idea for a possible business card for me. I don't even know how to add text in PS, hehe, so any help is appreciated. You can also browse my other galleries for a photo or idea.
If you wanted to do portraits (which you're very good at by the way!) something like this would look good I think. Bear in mind I didn't know what info you wanted on there so I made it up :P
I think the photo works well, drawing attention cos she's a good looking girl, and also leaving a nice lot of negative space for your info. I had to clone a bit extra in to get the right balance. I added a slight sepia tone to make it warmer, and give it some colour because B&W cards don't normally look too impressive.
The text is simple, easy to read, and well spaced out. There is a slight shadow on it so it doesn't get lost in the background and it adds some depth.
Just regarding the orignal business card that started this thread... The reason the text is hard to read is because the darkening down the middle of the words obscures the top half of the letters. English language text can still be easily read if you cover the bottom half of the text - we only really need to see the top half to make sense of it.
For that reason you should make sure that if you're going to apply colour or texture effects to your lettering you should keep the top half as contrasty and readable as possible.
And while we're talking about fonts - by all means use a decorative font but please use only ONE. Stick to 1 decorative font and use it large. Everywhere else stick to a basic serif or sans serif font like times new roman or helvetica. Serif fonts tend to look better in print than they do on the screen.
Generally the use of more than one decorative font in a design tends to make it look amateurish unless you're very careful.
