Business Card Crit
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- era4040
There's a strange line between goth and occult, man. I think, if you push it back a little, you could be okay.
I also hate when everything is centered, but that's my personal bias.
I see some amazing potential, however, in your designs/concepting.
- -scarabin-0
thanks, everyone.
i've enjoyed your feedback so far.
- horton0
yeah.. nice... i like #5 if its worth any.
- Mirpour0
very nice! go with 2
- doesnotexist0
i really dig four, the star of david/hand thing reminds me of gustav klimt for some reason.
check out
http://www.jpeggraphics.comsuper cheap for cards, like $80 for 5000 or some shit.
- LouSeffer0
what is your quote for the job?
seriously, that card would be nicer if you speced some sweet paper and went with spot colors.
- Duane0
Seff - $130 for 500 cards at 4by6. Great deal. I just ordered some for myself from there.
I like No. 2 Nathan.
- Duane0
Nathan if you have an account there - check the member specials. $130 for satin at the moment.
- LouSeffer0
buck cheap
- -scarabin-0
thanks, duane
- horton0
what is your quote for the job?
seriously, that card would be nicer if you speced some sweet paper and went with spot colors.
LouSeffer
(Oct 13 05, 15:36)usually i would agree with spot colors but i think scarabin could do well without in this case..
the black flood can be made rich with a good process black.. maybe bump the yellow even more to give it that antique look.
i've used 0-15-50-100.. (basically Pantone Black C) it looks good as its halftoned out (will obviously have a warm tint).
and the red is easy enough to get rich with process colors.
- monNom0
I agree about picking a paper...
That card looks like it deserves some texture to back up the subject matter.
Fox River's Evergreen in ivory would be my choice.
- skelly0
have you considered:
instead of:
?
Personally, I always think url's look funny in caps. I like them all though.
- horton0
and of course don't do the small text in the process black.. use solid black.
and a nice trick is to hairline trap with a solid black stroke around knock-out details like the hand logo on the front... to get it super crisp.
but scarabin you probably already know all this.
- -scarabin-0
horton- could you go into more detail about making my black and red more rich? i haven't really experimented with that before on any job. i'm using illustrator.
skelly- url is in caps because i'm using trajan and that's all it comes in. i'll try a different font.
- mayo0
Do you like Fraktendon?
i can set the web address in it if you want. for some reason i think it would work well.
- horton0
horton- could you go into more detail about making my black and red more rich? i haven't really experimented with that before on any job. i'm using illustrator.
-scarabin-
(Oct 13 05, 15:53)sure... for floods of process black i always back it up with some % of CMY.. depending on the effect. generally something like 30-15-15-100 (CMYK) produces a nice rich neutral black.
i suggested a warmer process black 0-15-50-100 to give it a more antique look.. look at pantone 400-405.. thats basically the process equivalent.
i think this explains some:
http://www.creativepro.com/story…depending on how tech you want to get with it, a good idea would also be to trap your white hand logo with solid black to ensure a crisp reproduction (no CMY fuzz on the edges).
in a nutshell you can do this in AI by giving it a 1pt solid black stroke, copying, and then pasting a copy in front as it should look without the stroke.
then you end up with .5pt of solid black surrounding your logo to stop the CMY from bleeding in and losing detail.
phew!
- Point50
nice tip horton