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Little exercice with this business card.

Most important: layout and color. We have to know that we have a couple of choice when we want to print a business card:

• Offset, we can use all color that we want but it is very expensive and minimum quantity are asked
• Black and white: cheap and no minimal
• 3 colours process + black: the best alternative in my opinion.

Here i used on a black background: white, gold, 2 levels of grey.

the layout is simple, the "original" thing is the croped "design" word shadow.

I like black white grey and gold, it give a smart touch. The font is classical, the business card is design to be easily read.

PS: i do not know why my gold color is blue when upload on the blog. The back ground is supposed to be black as well.

Design

I did this one on illustrator. As you can see this picture like a prison with the vision from inside that makes people feel like getting stuck and stuffy. However, it also can be seen from the outside......depends on how you are feeling. I am be glad if you tell me what you think.















And this one is my second work but this time I used Photoshop.
In this picture I want the viewers focus on the text so I use feather to make it gradually goes in to the text. There is not much color because I like sth simple. Hope it's not too simple.
That's my pleasure to see your feedbacks.















This is the website I took the text:
http://www.design.nl/item/wallpaper_magazines_tokyo_design_tips

Let's make mistakes

Just a small post to point out an other blog's entry. It was on the right frame of this one when i was visiting it.

If you guys didn't have the curiousity to read it:

http://beingastarvingartistsucks.typepad.com/basas/2007/11/a-little-known-.html

It is indeed right and it made me smile.

Singaporean Poster

During the break between semester 2 and 3, in october, i went to singapore.
An informal trip to visit my friend and visit the city/country.
It was weird to visit such a tidy country comparing to the swarming Ho Chi Minh city and i was quite destabilize by all these rules. I mean, I love this vietnamese shamble.

Anyway, i saw numerous and divers things in Singapore. Then, visiting my friend's university i came across a peculiar poster.
My singaporean mates asked me why i was so offended by this poster. And, I answered that we do not see this kind of propaganda since 1945 after the german occupation and the Vichy government.

Actually, this is a very simple design. A public toilet door, with the usual men/woman sign. Just make a hole in the wall in between and the man watching at the woman. Without the text, we could think it is just a funny allusion to voyeurism.

However, adding "Suspicious strangers? report them." the poster takes another dimension, not so proudly.

The first ideas which crossed in my mind is: encouragement to inform on others, denunciation. Even more, mixing the words suspicious and strangers obviously mean that Singaporean have to not trust strangers.

Finally, this poster shows how a simple design coming from simple ideas can have considerable power.

Though please guys tell me if my interpretation is shared and pertinent or if the reason i was shocked is simply due to the distressing French collaborationist past (at least the one my grand parents and my history teacher told me).

Business Card Inspirations

HOW design has a good series of articles on outstanding business card design, with examples.

In print design, business cards are probably the most powerful marketing tool your client has, because it is the once piece of marketing (yes, business cards ARE marketing) material that a prospective client actually keeps.

People are more likely to keep a business card if it is extraordinary: brilliantly designed, interestingly textured, made of unusual material.

http://www.howdesign.com/dc/features/bizcards1.asp