Tass Needs A Business Card

[who_cares973]

another variation without the address

smaller for the sake of not stretching

[Necros140606]

these cards are all bad i would think negatively of anyone giving me one looking like that

[who_cares973]

k, pointers?

[Necros140606]

whats so hard in making something like this

[Xandertrax]

Who_cares, bevels and embosses look nice on the cpu, but rarely look as good in print. Flat text tends to look better.

I would work on this more, but I honestly don't have the time this week. Sorry, tass.

[Tasselfoot]

necros: that looks pretty sexy for a start. the other ones are just really plain looking. :-/. can you add all of the info to your design so that i can see how it all looks together? please put the video job first, although i like the layouts when one job is on the left and the other is on the right, as opposed to on top of each other. also needs to have 2 websites listed, not just 1.

i know it's a lot of text to fit onto the card. meh.

[Necros140606]

i think this is the very minimum you should consider acceptable for the card, i filled in only to make it look somewhat definitive, but the way i organized stuff makes it versatile enough to change the placement of pretty much everything. just ask and it'll be done.

small ver. for the sake of not stretching etc, im assuming you could see the bigger one as well seeing how geeky you are but the majority of people don't have such big screens.

[Tasselfoot]

No need to have the FFR logo on there... no need to have the FFR URL under my name.

is it possible to put one set on the left, with left justification and the other set on the right, with right justification? put my ph# and AIM under my name at the top, then title, email, url for each job on the left and right. i can shrink the FFR title to 23 characters, including spaces.

so it would look like:

Flash Game Guru                                              12345678901234567890123
tasselfoot@gmail.com                          mike.pollack@flashflashrevolution.com
http://www.youtube.com/tasselfoot        http://www.flashflashrevolution.com

If that doesn't work, then I'd list them vertical above each other... but definitely want the info for each job to be together, not grouped like titles together, emails together, etc.

the ph# and AIM can go under my name, since those are universal for both.

[Gigispackles]

Another attempt at this. If you want some kinda design or shading pattern, could you please tell me? It'd help with the whole bland thing.

[Tasselfoot]

few things.

1. business cards are 3.5" wide and 2.0" tall. so, please try and use those dimensions for your templates (or some kind of template that is 1.75:1)

2. i think the avatar just won't work... i like it, but even disregarding the professionalism questions, it has too many colors.

3. gigi: something that has a fit of flair to it, like necros has. it can be anything... just so it isn't so bland looking.

[NFD]

Anybody using Microsoft Publisher? It's got some great templates.

[who_cares973]

whats the most you plan on spending on the business cards?

[Tasselfoot]

$100? $50?

[Gigispackles]

I'm bad at coming up with ideas for designs. I don't how to work templates and whatnot for Photoshop Elements 7, either. So I'm going to keep guessing, I guess.

[who_cares973]

Originally Posted by Tasselfoot

$100? $50?

you only plan on getting like 100-150 right?

i used to work at a print shop and designs like necros would cost 75 dollars for 100 cards that only have 3-4 colors

just letting you know

its the only reason i wasnt going flashy

[Necros140606]

you are implying that vivid colors are more expensive than undersatured ones yet the difference is very minimal and i think that whoever asks this much is not a professional and isn't using the right machinery.

[who_cares973]

the difference may be minimal on the computer. but when the cards are being made they use two completely different processes

also the prices come from personal experience. you can probably get them online for a lot cheaper

[Tasselfoot]

don't have time to get them done online. has to be done in a shop. likely in a rush capacity. and yeah, i'd be looking for about 100... although i'm pretty sure 500 is not much more expensive than 100, as most of the cost is in the set-up.

what about some kind of border around the outside? black or something? to make it not QUITE so bland looking.

[who_cares973]

have you gone to any of the print shops around your area to check out the prices or to see if they can design the card for you?the one that i worked at designed the card according to your specifications for free.


if you're willing to pay 50+ for 100 or a little more for 500 then just use necros' design

[Tasselfoot]

i'd like to... just would like to see it tweaked as per the requests i mentioned a few posts up.