Here is a design for my business cards. They'd be printed in full color (CMYK) on both sides with a glossy finish. I'm trying to keep it clean, simple, airy, prescise etc.
Anyway, your comments and critiques would be appreciated. :c)
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I like that you only have the logo on one side. It's very strong.
I'm not sure about the way the information is structured on the back. Seems like form follows function, which not the way on a business card. Even if you leave it that way try adding some more line height beacuse it's very crumbled together and hard to read. Especially where the blue "y" almost touches the word design.
Ive been glad to hear that so many people like my logo... it probably took me 2 years to finnally come up with one I really liked. (My most difficult client ever was myself!) Anyway, thank you for your suggestions. I'm not sure what you mean in a practical sense as far as "Seems like form follows function"... Could you elaborate please? As far as the line-height goes, Wow! Thanks for the suggestion! It looks a whole lot better with increased line height! Thank you very much Ivan. I'll add an attachment (the updated card) to the first post.
I really like this logo a lot. Not only do you have your businss initials there but it gives a sense of staying power I think, like an infinity mark.
You might consider having the top left and bottom right corners of your business card rounded to give it a unique smooth feel, I think it would work wonders with your logo.
Cheers!
Rounded corners would look nice. I think that is a very good idea. I was planning on using www.4by6.com to have them printed but your idea has prompted me to look into local printers... Thank you Matthew!
(Have I mentioned that I love this critique section!)
Agree. Rounded edges is worth trying.
I used http://www.overnightprints.com/ for mine. They offer rounded corners and they came out pretty good too.
Woah! Thank you! They have some great pricing too! (I haven't checked shipping yet... but first glance looks good!) Are you happy with the quality of the cards? I saw they only (?) support up to 300ppi wheras 4by6.com supports 350ppi is there really that much of a diffrence?
Thank you so much Trent!
-Greg
If you like it so much why dont you post for all to see.
Because I haven't had them printed yet... I'm waiting to see if anyone who had used overnightprints.com can give me feedback as to quality.
Yeah, the shipping isn't bad if you get it shipped normally (i.e. not overnight), and the rounded corners are pretty good too. When you order standard business cards, they give you few extra with rounded corners so you can have a good idea of what they look like. However, these free demo ones have shoddy rounded corners, almost like somebody went back with scissors to trim them off manually. But if you order them rounded, they're quite nice.
And I don't think you'll notice much between 300 and 350dpi. 300dpi is super-high res as it is, and since you don't have a photograph or anything on yours, you probably won't be able to tell at all.
Matthew's idea is perfect.
Alec
nice, solid logo.
The logo is very nice, I would drop the glass effect if it was me, it just seems like a dying trend and will cause an increase in printing cost since you are forced to go with a 4 color process. I dislike the information side of the card. The information type is laid out oddly and provides no contrast between the logo mark. I think you should use a more smaller point size and condensed face there and resturcture the copy. Maybe reverse the name and type out of the blue color to get a bit more bang for your buck, since you are paying extra to have the extra side printed on.
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