biz card critique
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- monkeyshine0
thank you, Dancer! That is exactly the feedback I need.
It's so hard to define myself. It's so much easier doing it for others. I do recognize that the image poses an identity issue. pfff.
- adamfinger0
Personally, I don't like your design, but that's probably because we have varying styles. The simple yellow card appealed to me and didn't read as anti-design, but rather as minimilistic design--which, in many cases, is the most assertive way of making a point.
Also, the flower doesn't stand out as different. It's too easy of a subject to fall back on and is overly used.
Just my two cents.
- 723390
I like that monkey mark with the waves around its head from your portfolio section (monkey_work.gif) ...more distinctive to me than the flowers.
never easy doing stuff for yourself.
- smoothblend0
Nashville? Im form Chattanooga. Hey neighbor.
And with the name monkeyshine.. its hard to forget. Sticks in your head. When people say your name sucks or whatever. Chances are they wont forget it.
I get that all the time with smoothblend. But they dont forget it. Usualy they refer me first b/c the name is on their mind.
- monkeyshine0
Hey Curtis, what do you do down there in Chattanooga?
Thanks...I don't think anyone has said the name sucks. It always makes people smile when I tell them. I think that what folks are referring to here is that my design choice doesn't necessarily convey a monkeyshines spirit.
- jevad0
I bloody like it
- monkeyshine0
For the record, I love jevad most! ;)
thanks, J!
- jevad0
^_^
- ********0
my point of view:
create contrast between recto and verso
make the most important typo lots bigger
leave off the green outline on the typo
why dont you experiment with rounded and straight conrers like three straight one rounded
i dunno..
- jevad0
here's my new one:
- ********0
'I've struggled for months now with a new identity for myself...'
monkeyshine
good thing come fast ; )
- paulrand0
next somebody'll say that numbers are "over"
- toqueboy0
it sorta says "i'm a female designer.
kinda like a card with a chromed out tail pipe and a dude flexing would say "i'm a male designer"
i think the card will limit the audience that considers you for work to be honest.
KIS
- jevad0
take off eh...that card's a beauty, eh.
- scarabin0
i'm feeling the die cut and the type (and the dots), but i'd go with a solid color instead of the photos.
- scarabin0
the yellow card was retarded.
- redFridge0
i was expecting to see a bright orange card with a white outline of a monkey head or a monkey posing.
seems to me if monkey is your name, and you want people to remember, hit them with it.
i agree with the feminine comments but i think when its blurred as on the front it looks great.
i just finished my card few days ago:
- monkeyshine0
what if I keep the blurred side the way it is (dots and all) and then on the inside go from a blur on bottom to solid color on top?
Maybe its just too much. I was a little deflated when someone said they thought it was a daisy. :( ack. Its a flipping sunflower, not a daisy! But to think that someone will think I have a daisy on my b-card makes me wanna puke.
- redFridge0
another thought: if your going to do a die cut, go all the way with it, try keeping the legnth, but bringing the height down. I think that could help the composition on the front.
- monkeyshine0
refFridge, I love your card. It's great. You're paying for custom die cutting??
I know people expect me to use a monkey symbol, but I'm just not sure I want to be so obvious on the monkey part (plus there are a zillion monkey [fill in the blank] design companies who have monkeys as logos.
Your design works because your execution is so interesting, unexpected.