Palmetto Bowtique
clintthepirate (19 points) | Fri, 2009-11-06 16:36
My wife has a hair bow company. This is her favorite. The Palmetto tree is our state tree here in South Carolina. It's kind of a big deal. I can throw a different bow in there. I did it in CMYK colors, which I am not to fond of. Do I have to use that for business cards?
...
Leaky Penny
www.leakypenny.com
When I leave, close together like butt cheeks.
-Grits N' Gravy
....means lame beyond all comprehension?
Sorry dude, but that's just horrendous. Follow the link below, read up a bit and restart.
Leaky Penny
www.leakypenny.com
When I leave, close together like butt cheeks.
-Grits N' Gravy
Start here:
http://desktoppub.about.com/od/businesscards/Business_Cards.htm
Do some research online as well.
Leaky Penny
www.leakypenny.com
When I leave, close together like butt cheeks.
-Grits N' Gravy
Thanks man. I looked at the about.com site last night. I am really not fond of that site at all. I would really prefer to get something printed on a piece of ribbon, but this is just for a beginning business card. The palmetto tree with the bow is most likely staying. I will work on it some more. Thank you I appreciate it
Hey no sweat. Well those are the strict basics, but online (and even in the CB weblinks) you'll find tons of inspiration. Look at your business card as a person standing in front of your shop advertising for you. Do you want some brightly coloured dressed lady with tons of make up (a la Mimi from Drew Carrey) yelling and shouting at people to come into the store, or do you want a more welcoming person, warm smile,inspiring confidence to politly ask people to come in and see what you guys have to offer?
Work on the basics of the card, and then we'll get into details like fonts and colours and composition.
Also: there will be a person who will remain nameless that *night* comment on this card with nothing more than a "I hate all"
Don't get offended, he's special, but means well!
Leaky Penny
www.leakypenny.com
When I leave, close together like butt cheeks.
-Grits N' Gravy
Here is some advice.
Go to your local bookstore's art and graphic design section, find a book with lots of awesome business card designs, and get inspired...because this isn't very attractive and won't help your business image.
If you have no local bookstore, find some inspiration on the internet.
If you won't do that, at least change your wife's name to all one color.
Alright I changed some stuff up. I didn't put an address because we don't have one for the business. Still have the pink. I can't think of anything to do with the bg right now. It's really not that bright and in your face in the cmyk format. Thanks for all the advice. I will work on it some more over the next few days and get it back up here
AH! I'M BLIND!
To answer your question above, you don't need to print this using process colors (cmyk), but it will be more expensive to print it using the day-glo inks that will be required to get these god-awful blinding colors.
So far as critique - I won't say aboslutely positively this is the worst business card I've ever seen... it's just the worst one that I can remember ever seeing. That thing is ridiculous. Not only is it ugly as can be - it SCREAMS "cheap". Is that the image you want to project? I don't see a "boutique" here - I see some clueless highschool girl with a mall kiosk selling cheap Chinese bow ties.
Sorry to be so brutal, but Leaky's obviously having an off day and I have to pick up the slack for him.
Hey, I was only being nice because I digged his avatar!
And to be fair, i did compare the card to Mimi ;)
Leaky Penny
www.leakypenny.com
When I leave, close together like butt cheeks.
-Grits N' Gravy
That is a nice avatar.
BTW, now that my eyesight has returned I can see that this card is actually a 5 or 6 color print job. You have the bow tie in there with the red center. So that means you could print this using magenta for the pink and day glo green as the 5th color. But if you want that really flourescent pink (and lord knows we definitely need that pink to be day-glo too - right?) that would have to be the 6th color. So the card will be a fairly expensive print job too.
Well they had this deal up on slickdeals
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1645074
I gotta work on it some more. I will probably start from scratch and approach it from another direction.
Thanks for all the help guys
Before you even start work on it research research research, dude. Half the work is research. When you have ideas, put them down on paper. Execution in Illustrator of the final concept is the easiest part.
Look at peoples' work around this site too, see what works, what doesn't and read comments. It'll all help you come up with a better product for your wife.
Leaky Penny
www.leakypenny.com
When I leave, close together like butt cheeks.
-Grits N' Gravy
beautiful
God, you're cruel. ;-)
Mara
this card reseted my BIOS, my soul.
all around seems so beautiful now, I'm free and prepared to see the beauty of the Universe...
RESEARCH BIZ CARDS THAT YOU ENJOY. RESEARCH OTHER ARTISANS THAT ARE IN YOUR LINE OF WORK.
This is terrible. Perhaps your wife should hire someone with some refined skill and give her a card that will help launch her business.
That Office Depot special is for process color printing only, so you couldn't get the day-glo green and pink effect as we see in the sample. Just fyi. Hang onto the link for future use.
Definitely reboot. When you're out shopping, drop into a couple nice boutiques (the kind of place your wife aspires to own) and ask for their cards. That's another easy resource for comparison.
This thread makes me laugh. I saw the thumbnail of that business card and was like, "is this for real?" No one even mentioned the font choice in the critique above. I don't think it's the hot pink that throws this design off so much as the overall effect of the green tree and random little bow on top of it. Pink is one of my favorite colors to design with (see my website) and I'm working on an all-pink graphic design for my own cards as well. I think it can be effective if used well. As #ff0099 is my favorite pink for web, I searched colourlovers and found this palette:
http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/884739/every_pleasing_sound
I think the main issue will be putting that green directly on top of the pink. Maybe try a (very thin) brown stroke or some type of drop shadow or effect.
Yeah I am going to reboot and do it the original way I wanted to do it. I wanted to get a bow symbol printed on a piece of ribbon with her info on it and that's it. I will have to make the symbol up. Thanks for the help and opinions.
nice...
16 billion colours and you choose the one i cant create !??!
Something like that makes a nice introductory gimmick - but it doesn't replace a business card. A business card goes into a book somewhere for future use - the ribbon disappears into the trash the next time they clean the house or the office. Know what I'm saying?