Business Cards

Having seen other work you've posted, I don't think this stacks up. It's all very centered and the stripes don't do anything for me. I prefer your usual clean style seen in your websites. But that's just my thoughts.

i love the idea of moo cards, alot of potential, however, i HATE the fact that the cards aren't normal business card sizes. I think it's moronic not to even offer it. I'd try this whole concept if i could get just that one requirement.

With that said, i'm not too crazy about your design on these. I've seen some really nice stuff from you also. Your second version has a little bit more to it, and yet that's only the color alternatives. I think part of it comes back to my first point, the size! yes, size matters! i think the small nature of these cuts into the already limited designs that can be had on a business card. it wasn't easy to begin with, and now it just got a little bit harder. I think you can have something alot more powerful then these...

The 2nd more colorful set is much better in my opinion and with 100 cards for $19.99 how can you really go wrong? Get them printed and try them out. You can always do another design set in the future.

Thanks for pointing out Moo Cards. The mini size is a concern but it has me thinking of creative low cost options for certain clients that don't need or want to spend the money for 1000 business cards.

When you get these printing please keep us posted on the print quality.

Thank you all for your suggestions and opinions, they are really helpful.

I've never had such a wide range of feedback on anything I've designed before. Granted, I did ask a more diverse cross section of people than I normally do, and business cards are probably a lot easier for people to relate to, but I'm still quite in awe at the different responses.

From what I can gather, the general consensus is that the various iterations of my first/last/full name as a concept is a very interesting idea, but not interesting enough that it's fantastic straight off the bat.

Only a couple of the people I asked realised [well, verbalised] that the cards would be given out without the context of the rest of the cards, and the thought process from there was that it was a really good idea. It seems most other people just thought it was a cool idea, but a little strange. I was told by a couple of people that "it's pointless and a little silly".

The stripes got very mixed responses, some people love them, some people hate them [mostly other designers don't like them, but even then, a friend of mine who is a graphic designer by trade thought they were wonderful, so who knows]. Each time I look at them I feel completely different towards them, sometimes I love them, sometimes not so much. General consensus is that the colours are a nice idea, but the pallete should be worked on a little.

A couple of people said that the whole idea of having different business cards [ie: various styles] is a bad idea - that all your business cards should be exactly the same as each other. I disagree with that notion. Sure, consistency is important, but as long as each card in the set is easily identifiable as part of the same set, I don't see any reason to have them all exactly the same as each other.

Again, thanks for your responses. I'll keep working on the ideas and post again for your critique, it's very helpful.

I figure for USD$25, it's worth taking a gamble. I'm not really fussed about the odd size, I quite like it, actually. Worse comes to worst, if they turn out crap, I'll keep them in a draw and give them to people I don't want as clients.