biz card critique
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- monkeyshine
I've struggled for months now with a new identity for myself...and would appreciate some comments (she says as she slips into her full body armor).
- phatlee0
not so keen on your choice of font, or the rounded corners...it looks too much like neville brody in the 90s. Image works well though...
- TNDAP0
The design of the card is cool, it just doesn't say monkeyshine media to me.
- TResudek0
First and foremost.: drop the dots in the phone number. The dots are over, very over. Try spaces instead. Also, did you try keeping the right margin the same width as teh left? To clarify, the first "M" in maybe 15mm in but the last "A" is only about 5mm in.
Kinda like the font.
TR
- phatlee0
...this is the sort of business card I like http://www.farrowdesign.co.uk/
- crap0
it needs a kind of edge to it
- lind0
I don't mind the dots in the phone # -- it seems to integrate with the dot in the domain name. I think the space would look weird.
Is there a reason why you didn't put your street addy?
- monkeyshine0
thanks for the comments, guys. back to work. :(
- monkeyshine0
do you think its important to have street address?
I've not included it because I work from home and not too keen on everyone knowing where I live.
- phirschybar0
Jeez monkeyshine... I actually really dig the rounded edges and the rest of the design. Its the kind of thing I would stop to look at when flipping through my rolodex.
- lind0
I would put my street addy -- makes my freelance job seem more professional and trustworthy (of course, I don't have a biz card...yet). Also, it's good so that the client would know where to mail you your check : )
- thosethat0
lind...
fair enough that you'd include your street...
but why do you keep calling people addy..?
- lind0
lazy
- thosethat0
..?
- lind0
too lazy to write address.
- thosethat0
haha... you wrote it now..!
- monkeyshine0
and another question...must everything have an edge? I'm not being sarcastic.
That yellow card biz card does not appeal to me at all...it says nothing about the person(s) behind the card. It seems empty and pretentious in its anti-design design...but its all so subjective anyway.
The reason I used this image on my card is that its one of my photographs...is it too prissy because its a flower? dunno.
- smoothblend0
Im digging it.
Just dont use black on that pretty green. also Im not digging the stroke on the white. maybe another color?
Other than that. Looks good. Going to be expencive to get print and cut with the rounded edges.
And about that yellow card,Maybe the person who is saying he likes the card is empty and pretentious. But im with you. I hate that techno shit.
lol.. hope that helps
- storstgg0
I am really into letterpress printing lately... you should look into it... although letterpress isn't great with halftones.
- monkeyshine0
letterpress would be great...I thought of that before designing but being in Nashville with two of best letterpress shops in the country (Hatch and Isle), you see it done alot.
- Dancer0
OK.
To start with the yellow "card" you refer to is NOT a business card. It is merely a holding page to show contact details.Monkeyshine, your card looks good but the rounded corners are gonna be pricey and unless you have got the cash I would drop them, old skool and do the card no justice.
Make the image more contrasty it looks washed out.
The name Monkeyshine sounds cheeky, quirky and perhaps even illustrative I do not see any of these in the card.....except the 2 "m's" look a bit like 2 monkeys' bums.
the image is nice, the typeface is good and the name is quirky (does want to make me say MOONshine alot though) its the application.
What you have to ask yourself is "what's my IDEA"
Sorry for the rant I just thought I would get you to question your work.
Apologies for the honesty!!!