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Kick Ass Business Cards.
April 11, 2008
I am constantly astonished at graphic and web designers who have subpar websites and business cards. It's what you DO, for christsakes! It's supposed to be your specialty! If you half ass your own work, then why would someone expect you to do more for them?
Take Business cards, for example:
Business cards say a lot about a person. They give your prospective client or customer an idea of how much you pay attention to detail. How serious you are about your business, how creative you are, how well you plan and execute ideas. Here are just a few of some of the best business cards out there right now. These images were compiled from Flickr's Business Cards Set. The next time you need to print out more business cards, consider what sort of message you're sending out by handing a piece of yourself to someone in the form of a handheld, wallet sized message.
Kevin Mitnick can pick a lock with his business card, what can you do with yours besides pick food out of your teeth?
Urban Waves Swimming instructors can keep their business cards on them while they work thanks to the plastic seal around the card itself...and it floats!
Like race cars and automobiles in general? So does Intersection Magazine. They also like kick ass business cards that can drive you home.
This sun dial visiting card was created for an antique watch dealer by Euro RSG India. What time is it? It's time to make a cooler business card like this one!
Even Puppeteer's need sweet business cards.
Jong von Matt of Germany made this incredible business card for Tur & Partner, a landscaping company. The card contains tiny seedlings that germinate when you water the card and give it some light! A great way to bring nature into your office, and to get noticed. I wonder if dope dealers could use this design?
This metallic business card folds into a designer working away at his desk. Sam Buxton may not be one for a flashy website, but he sure knows how to make a business card.
Chew on this card for a fresh perspective in business card design.
A card that's multifunctional for make up artists from Yuka.
Great ideas sometimes come in small packages. This one from Shawna Hill, graphic designer.
It would be really sweet if you could actually mail these cards from Tracy Smith Design. Actually that's a pretty good idea!
Sean M. Kinney's business card is cutting edge. Be careful.
Each card represents a different employee at your business. Collect them all! (should come with a stick of bubble gum, though, I think.)
Finally someone with a brutally honest business card.
Coffee? Cool beans.
Thielen Designs got these business cards on discount. I hope they fit, cause most people aren't going to want to return them.
* this card is a great idea.
Going up in the world of design? Elevator Design is.
A real sense of timelessness in Ellen Jackson's business cards and a site that matches it's aesthetics.
This guy CAN design his way out of a wet paper bag.
If you've got a business card that you think is noteworthy, send me a pic. I'll add it to another 2nd part coming soon!
Remember. If you're a graphic or web designer or printer and even your own logo, website, or business card doesn't really stand out, then neither will you compared to the countless other companies that are competing for the clients attention. It's practically bad advertising for yourself. You might be better off NOT having a business card or website, or better yet start going to beauty school.
Kevin Mitnick can pick a lock with his business card, what can you do with yours besides pick food out of your teeth?
Urban Waves Swimming instructors can keep their business cards on them while they work thanks to the plastic seal around the card itself...and it floats!
Like race cars and automobiles in general? So does Intersection Magazine. They also like kick ass business cards that can drive you home.
This sun dial visiting card was created for an antique watch dealer by Euro RSG India. What time is it? It's time to make a cooler business card like this one!
Even Puppeteer's need sweet business cards.
Jong von Matt of Germany made this incredible business card for Tur & Partner, a landscaping company. The card contains tiny seedlings that germinate when you water the card and give it some light! A great way to bring nature into your office, and to get noticed. I wonder if dope dealers could use this design?
This metallic business card folds into a designer working away at his desk. Sam Buxton may not be one for a flashy website, but he sure knows how to make a business card.
Chew on this card for a fresh perspective in business card design.
A card that's multifunctional for make up artists from Yuka.
Great ideas sometimes come in small packages. This one from Shawna Hill, graphic designer.
It would be really sweet if you could actually mail these cards from Tracy Smith Design. Actually that's a pretty good idea!
Sean M. Kinney's business card is cutting edge. Be careful.
Each card represents a different employee at your business. Collect them all! (should come with a stick of bubble gum, though, I think.)
Finally someone with a brutally honest business card.
Coffee? Cool beans.
Thielen Designs got these business cards on discount. I hope they fit, cause most people aren't going to want to return them.
* this card is a great idea.
Going up in the world of design? Elevator Design is.
A real sense of timelessness in Ellen Jackson's business cards and a site that matches it's aesthetics.
This guy CAN design his way out of a wet paper bag.
If you've got a business card that you think is noteworthy, send me a pic. I'll add it to another 2nd part coming soon!
Remember. If you're a graphic or web designer or printer and even your own logo, website, or business card doesn't really stand out, then neither will you compared to the countless other companies that are competing for the clients attention. It's practically bad advertising for yourself. You might be better off NOT having a business card or website, or better yet start going to beauty school.
Labels: Ad Agencies, Advertising, business cards, Graphic Designer
Great Commercial?
April 06, 2008
Ever see a commercial and thought Jeezus that was stupid, what was that ad agency thinking? Or perhaps between your favorite episodes of CSI you came to the end of a short television ad and thought, What the hell was the point of that?
All of us love it when our commercial breaks are more entertaining or thought provoking than the show we're watching, but what most of us don't consider is that television shows are only there so that you will watch those stupid commercials in the first place! The mega huge food and automotive industry basically pays for your nightly entertainment so that you might buy more of their stuff.
Sometimes it works, more times it doesn't.
A website called After These Messagesis geared towards communications professionals where they can upload and discuss different ads; their effectiveness or lack there of, allows users to ask ethical questions or just plain comment about how shit it really is. You can join the community if you've got an email address, though they promise not to use it. Once a piece is reviewed it's placed on a 3-D axis of heaven / hell and hack / genius.
The site is created by Green Team, an advertising/communications agency that specializes in reaching the "Awakening Consumer, an educated, ethical, environmentally aware and economically powerful audience that uses its purchasing power to influence policy through the brands it supports."
Finally a group out there that's geared toward making our commercial breaks seem more like minisodes.
The site is created by Green Team, an advertising/communications agency that specializes in reaching the "Awakening Consumer, an educated, ethical, environmentally aware and economically powerful audience that uses its purchasing power to influence policy through the brands it supports."
Labels: Advertising, After These Messages, commercials, green team, quizno's
Everybody is a Graphic Designer.
March 30, 2008
I am an Illustrator and Graphic Designer. I also do websites; both Flash based and CSS based. From the moment I could hold a crayon in my hand, I've spent the majority of my life studying and practicing the visual arts. I went to college for this assuming that my classmates would also be the same kind of visually obsessive types I was. I was under the impression (falsely) that only people who had a background or natural ability in art would pursue it as a means of income. I know I wouldn't even imagine trying to go to college for statistics or quantum theory, as I have no ability to understand or deal with it on any level. My days are filled with perusing gallery award winning sites and searching out, analyzing and admiring artists work from all over the world. I am obsessed with trying to make things look as good as they can and making ideas seem as interesting and yet straightforward as possible for others.
Yet it seems to me that being a graphic designer is one of those few occupations that EVERYONE thinks they can do without the slightest education or practice in. I find it fist clenchingly frustrating to be hired as an expert by a company who needs someone to make their ideas pop and look interesting and professional, yet seem to think it is a great idea to ignore all the work and advice I give them. If they know so much about my job, then why are they hiring me? You don't go into a 5 star restaurant and order the Chef's specialty, only to go back into the kitchen and tell him how to make it. No one would think to step up on the stage of an accomplished singer and try to sing the song themselves or attempt to trade stocks on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for a week.
You put together a website based on the companies target audience, their goals, their companies image and examples of work they admire, along with color schemes, researched fonts, images and everything else you can think of to help them achieve the goals they have for their company and many of them seem to think they have a better understanding of how to make their site look fantastic than you do.
"What if we make everything on the site round?"
What if I punch you in the face and shit down your throat?
Labels: Ad Agencies, Advertising, Art, Code, Corporate, CSS, Flash, Graphic Designer, Illustration, XHTML
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2 Comments:
This is AWESOME! I never see design like that before! Great work!
I want to thank you for such wonderful insight to beautiful business card design. You have collected some of the WORLDS BEST BUSINESS CARDS!
Keep up the good work!
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