Non Standard Business Cards...
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- Spookytim
Non standard size business cards. Are they okay, or just a pain in the arshlocks?
I'm not talking about anything wild, I'm just thinking of doing my card 90x50mm rather than the usual 85x55.
Would that be as bad as tucking punctuation?
- 7point340
they only problem i see with odd dimensions is holding on the the card... they dont fit into the standard case/wallet/rolodex... etc. you end up folding it or putting it somewhere else only to lose it or forget about it
- 7point340
unless its a double wide or double high and can be folded...
i agree they look nice, and its refreshing to do something outside of a common template, but you gotta think about the shlubs you're handing them to and what will they do with them
- make it smaller and then all is fine..wordssssss
- true... saw one that was standard length but not as tall, and one that was square. both were nice7point34
- emecks0
mebbes aye, mebbes naw - dinnae ken to be honest.
- I didn't read your reply to be truthful.Spookytim
- I should really have not replied to be honest.emecks
- As a point of interest, I rarely read side notes, if ever.Spookytim
- in end effect, there's neither rhyme nor reason to whether I do or don'temecks
- I am ambivalent about whatever you may have just written.Spookytim
- pffft.emecks
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.... tut.Spookytim
- madirish0
i designed a card once where i worked that was essentially the dimensions of a coaster in a pub. not intended at all, but i got more feedback from people saying: "i use it to put my cup on everyday at my office!" at first i was annoyed, but then i realized i was getting more face-time with the aesthetic and branding i developed than anyone of their contacts. worked out well.
(this is in response to 'think about the shlubs you're handing them to and what will they do with them' above, btw)
- haha nice... just read this... unintentional but complete success. they see it everyday7point34
- 7point340
go with a full custom shape
for added effect print them on pressed aardvark hide
- Spookytim0
Thanks for feedback (not you emecks)
I rarely ever have to hand out Business Cards, but I feel like doing some, but totally plush, on a Patrick Bateman tip.
I am going to do 80x40mm, really quite small widescreen format, and I'm only going to put the company logo on and a phone number.
Is gold too ostentatious do you think???
- Spookytim0
Not a gradient gold, a flat gold logo embossed slightly into the card as though letterpressed.
- emecks0
right, ya dick, now I kinda have to, eh?
apart from 7point34's points (chuckle) about storage etc there is no reason whatsoever for not doing it. Ultimately you don't want your card stored in a rollodex (roll-a-dicks) anyway. You want the cat you gave it to to remember you and your card... print the fucker on a razor blade - that'll get you remembered :D
- or on pressed aardvark hide... especially amusing if you hand it to a green veggiehead... they WILL remember7point34
- duckofrubber0
Mine are 3" x 2". I get lots of compliments. Of course their silver ink on black stock...
- silver on black = winJaline
- their = they're = fail.duckofrubber
- epigraph0
For me, the whole fitting places thing comes down to will it fit in a wallet? I never make it wider than 3.5" ( or whatever you schmucks use over there) so it will fit in a standard sized wallet slot
- emecks0
mines are on PVC which is then encased in placstick, nice and shiny and thick as me too :)
- Spookytim0
Mine, which have just gone to the printer, are 80mm by 40mm. Small, and widescreen. They are going to be on the kind of card stock that would cut through a samurai sword with just the logo pressed into the front with a discreet bite into the card, and a phone number on the reverse, in 4pt. Nothing else.
If I ever manage give one away this time before the phone number changes, it will be a fucking first.
- love thick stock... flat / matte printing i hope. none of that awful shiny gloss or shiny matte shit7point34