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After all but a few of my business cards were destroyed due to a leaky trunk I decided it was time to come up with a new design and place an order. My design has changed, for the better, over the last few years, starting with a MS Paint design for the first round. I like what I have come up with this time around but I'm a little worried that it's too complicated. Could just be my paranoia but I know it has to show off my design skills and the eclectic person that I am.
The cloudy white area is actually going to be clear UV gloss. (Not white as seen)
The back side is all business. The QR code, if scanned with a smart phone, will take you to my online Picasa portfolio.
(I decided if I were going to ask anyone, I would ask the professionals )
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It looks good. I would keep the varnish out of the primary lettering.
-grampa dan
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We are all about the older traditional side of what we do and ive been considering going towards old offset style printing and getting away from digital to be more in line with that. Your design is cool, but what about maybe using a decades out of date style of printing your cards? Just an idea, our cards are digital print too, but im thinking of making the change on our next batch...
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aside from the ampersand the script is the same. I really wasn't pleased with the one that came with the script font so I found one that was a little more embellished.
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Im probably using the wrong terminology, I just meant printing it traditionally and not full photo style 4 color printing. I will retreat to my fantasy vintage world now...
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I dont think the ampersand looks centered. And on the back the shadow on the type makes it look like it was printed out-of-register. Maybe it's because the type is a small size.
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Sorry don you're right, i've never thought of the other font as a script font, way too "block". But technically you're right.
I moved that ampersand around quite a bit to find a place where it looked right. That's what i settled on, everywhere else it looked awkward. I'll work on the back of the card to make it more pleasing to the eye, I see what you're talking about there.
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its a good card for a "sign guy." i dont pickup on PIN STRIPING......
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I'd remove the grey shadown from the back side-I don't feel it aids legibility there. The ampersand also looks offcentre to me too...but because of the extended swirl, I'm not sure what you can do to make it look right.
I'd possibly be inclined to put ~ (a tilde) on either end of the 'decades' phrase.
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Bart - my opinion is that your 'revision' is nice, EXCEPT for the two bottom lines of script.
Using a thick/thin script over an elaborate filigree background is [generally] a visual design mistake.
OP is correct in saying that he isn't picking up on the 'pinstriping' line of text.
I would have used some form of a sans-serif block for that line....
as well as tucking the 'decades' line under the 'pinstriping' line in a smaller version of the same sans-serif font.
Glad to see you ditched the background filigree pattern out of the Madness, and minimized (via vignette) the intensity of the background filigree pattern.
But pull the 'decades' line off the floor of the card... it's a 'floater' that draws attention away from the more important text above it.
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I kinda like the effect of the first one better, even thru the word "Madness" the second one, the effect is pretty much lost (of course it will look different with the gloss)
on the back- lose the shadows on the lettering- it makes it look cheap (overused effect in Powerpoint or Word) not needed for flat 2D design like a card
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Because I might need some one to paint me a sign.
Really I just like the design and I wish to see the card's coated/uncoated result in reality not in just a computer screen comp. I think that is a very creative approach to a card.
I once designed a business card for a house painter and made one side look like a paint swatch from out of the store rack.
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I've always been told to never sell myself short, Never offer a coupon unless your selling groceries.
The word "Pinstriping" is on the card 4 times. I think the message will come across.
The drop shadows on the back are going to be removed. I agree with all of you.
The ampersand stays, Its more of an object in the background that a piece of text to me. That is also why I didn't exclude the UV Clear over it like the rest of the text.
The script font stays, i think it adds elegance to the card.
The filigree isn't actually in the background, I used a gradient white to represent a reflection. It will be a spot UV coating that will be consistent over the whole card, no fading to the edges.
Bob I'll make sure to send a card when I receive them.
Thank you everyone for their opinions. You've helped a lot.
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what i was making referance to as..."not picking up on pin striping".....not that you had the "word" but i see NO PIN STRIPING on the card........you need to look at some of the pin strippers on www.pinheadlounge.com or ask them for their business card...nice card madness signs....
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Bart...I like the addition of the pinstripes at the edges...That reflects what you do.
But, like others, I find that darkened ampersand, with it's shadow, to be really off kilter.
Maybe just lose it or really make it way smaller and the same colour as the rest of the text?
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Bart, I too like your pinstripes at the edges on the card and I also thank you for using my dots.
BTW, I prefer not using script of any kind if not just for its simplicity. All my cards were simple to read which hadn't anything to do with my quality or prices as many can tell you or you can check out my portfolio's link below..
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I like the idea, I like the little code thing on the back also. I'm a little bit illiterate when it comes to the latest new thing. How do you generate one of those and make it work?
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I'll chime in. The red pinstripes now compete with the red "madness". MAybe black for the pinstripes to drop then in to the backgroung or eliminate them altogether. Pinstriping & Sign Craft deserve thier own rectangular panel to pull them to the forefront. I'm thinking white with gray letters. You could pull a small red outline on that panel if you eliniate the pinstripes.
It does look nice. Mike
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Just to confuse the issue a bit more, how would the ampersand look in red and slide the stripes (which I like) a little further towards the edge so "madness" can breathe? I'd also go with caps on the P in "pinstriping" and S in Signcraft - and make that one word instead of two.
Although we're putting our group 2 cents in, I think we'd all agree this will be a very effective card, no matter what you do. btw, your striping is very impressive.....
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I've actually made the stripes a darker red so they blend into the background a bit more. They're there because of bleed and moving or changing the text will make me change the uv spot file, which unfortunately i've flattened and turned into a jpeg already without saving the vector file (stupid i know)
Unless i work up some ambition to change it sometime this week, "it is what it is". Im honestly really happy with what it is now.
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