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- kelpie0
where is the design?
where is the punctuation?
where is the spell check?
it's kind of a clever idea, but the only thing on this card that gives the impression that you are a graphic designer is the fact that it says so, and to be honest, i'd need a bit more proof than that if i were going to give you some of my hard-earned money.
you need to think about the typography! it's all you've got here. there's no logo, no colour - and don't get me wrong, i can appreciate the idea and the simplicity as well - but if you're selling yourself as a designer you need to sit down and seriously consider a few things:
1. i don't think a serif font works in this situation; i'd personally use helvetica, but maybe i've just spent too much time around snuggles.
2. there are two things that scream laziness to me: underlines and italics. these are typographical conventions which are used in certain circumstances: titles of novels, foreign words, etc. when you use them for emphasis and use them *together*, it looks like a cop-out. if i wanted to highlight certain parts of the text in this particular situation, i'd use a colour or a percentage black or a slightly heavier typeface or try to set them aside spatially somehow.
3. email should be lower case (as has been said before). you also have three sentences there and only one full stop. there ought to be a comma, as well.
again, the idea is kind of compelling, but to make it work you have to have a bit of panache and confidence. this looks like a text message. i don't mean to be harsh, but you need a rethink.
paraselene
(Mar 8 07, 02:38)gosh!
sorry, just posting this in a kind of "coming of age" stylee, hehe ;P