Business Cards

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The business cards were probably the most difficult of all of the design tasks for our companies set for us. We had to come up with backdrops for these designs in exactly the right sizes, we experimented with our logos editing the structures, colours, shadows, and creating different layounts in all sorts of different ways for them. On one business card you could have bright sky blue text going horizontal and on the next you could have it vertical was an eye-sore yellow, not is I'd ever use those colours. We also had to create a bogus address, fax, phone number and all the contact rubbish which I thought was a creative element to the cards and it was enjoyable making your own elaborate contact info and all of the cards generally, it gave us a chance to think and work like professional designers and let out shine on our creative sides. I especially enjoyed creating backdrops for the cards, making my own different looks of texture and detailed colour schemes was enjoyable and was hard to do at times. You could easily make the scheme and look of the card too boring or to over-the-top in some way, shape or form.
Of all of the cards my personal favourite is No.2. I like how it gives of a sort of steel illusion to it, it's subtle and it's almost realistic in the way of the gradient. I also like the way it is layed out. Some of my other business cards look terrible in the colours or how they're layed out. For example I really resent No.1. It is like No.2 in the way of the colour in the way of the text, logo and the metal sort of scheme but as it is layed out it is the opposite. It just (to me) looks poorly designed and completely unprofessional. The fact that the logo is on a slant (Is it meant to be layed back? I don't know!) makes it look kind of amateur. Even the contact info is in an odd place, I don't know whjat I was thinking. But then again, it is easily editable.