Business Card

TASK: Create a business card using only Type.

I chose to make my business card two sided. 

I made the front side a fully black background and placed a white tape recorder, to signify music (using Wingdings), over the top of this. I did this because I wanted the tape to stand out to show what field I am in and to make my business card specific to me.

I then made my opposite side white to juxtapose this and made my design very simplistic as I believe that being in the field that I am in, I don't need an over-designed business card. I used Times font (a Serif font) for my card as I felt that by having the extra flicks on the ends of the letters, it makes my card look more professional. I then used Wingdings to input the phone, email and website logos. I did this to make it look more professional, rather than just typing out the different categories (phone, email and website). I used an elongated 'I' in order to have a line under my name to make it stand out and separate it from the rest of the text, again making it look more professional.

I wasn't 100% happy with this design, so decided to create another one as well:

With this one I decided to add some colour to it and decided to go for a browny colour (CMYK: C= 0, M= 32, Y= 0, K= 83) as I felt this look like a professional colour. To do this I typed an 'I', made it large by resizing the font and then duplicated this until it had covered my entire page. 

I added my name and job role to the front of my business card, using a San-Serif font, as it looks more modernistic (which goes with my job). I chose to put these in white to compliment the background colour more.

I then stuck with the same layout for my contact information (on the back of my business card), just enlarging the text slightly and making the font colour white.

I feel like this business card looks a lot more professional and I would be a lot prouder to hand this over to someone than my first design.