Of course, i have to refer here to the cult scene in American Psycho, where the hero has a instant orgasm looking at a colleague’s business card.
I’m now trying to devise a good business card myself. In my opinion, a business card ought to:
- be suggestive of your activity
- have a touch of poetry
- have a design that makes people want to look at it again, and show it to others
- have a nice paper quality: people want to touch it
- as a side note: have all relevant contact information
Since i’m not a designer by profession or practice, i think i’ll struggle to reach that ideal.
Since i can’t aim for perfection, i aim for simplicity, and hope it works out. I tweaked a picture (with gimp). I’m muddling through the encyclopedic list of fonts you can choose from. The names those fonts have, it’s incredible – BitStream Vera Sans Mono, Niagara Solid – almost as much creativity went into those as in the font itself.
I’ll admit it’s fun. Whodathunkit. My twelve-year old self would probably had thumped her head against a wall repeatedly at the thought.