Like many Americans, I have a strange relationship with my accountant. She knows more about my family than we’d like to admit, and we are at her mercy to decipher the ever-changing hieroglyphs known as the Tax Code. Her first card is actually rather eye-catching — a $20 bill — to indicate that we get money [...]
An electronics engineer whose business card is not only an actual circuit board, but it’s a USB thumb drive. Useful, yet bulky. I’m afraid this isn’t the first one of these I’ve seen, and thus, I’m not terribly impressed. Bold, though, because this has to cost a pretty penny.
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You’d think that the staff at the Staples Copy & Print Shop would have better cards! I mean, they are in the biz, are they not? Both cards pictured are plagued with bad typography, colour inconsistency, bizarre thermography patterns, and pathetically thin card stock that feels entirely wimpy in hand. Also, two people from the [...]
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My buddy Mike works at Akam. They’re your standard blah corporation with a less-than-impressive card. But that makes this remarkable is the back of the card, which boasts the company’s mission statement. The level of corporate drivel packed on the back of this card actually make me laugh out loud. Why, oh why, does someone [...]
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East of eighth is a restaurant on 23rd St., just east of 8th Ave., in New York City. Good food, bad card. The photo doesn’t tell the entire story (in part because my camera sucks) but the entire card is printed with thermography! Ouch. Not a fan of the typography, either.
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When walking on the streets of New York, I am handed a variety of promotional and advertising crap. Flyers, coupons, free samples are all common. But the other day I actually accepted the hand-to-hand transfer because I could see from afar that it was, in fact, a business card being slung my way. The card: [...]
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I love how anything associate with fashion thinks they are immune from the principles of design. Just use Helvetica Neue Ultra Light and suddenly it becomes chic, right? Yea, not quite. Here are the cards for selve, a custom footwear company. I am featuring these firstly for their cheeky strapline, “Munich, London, and now Red [...]
Junior is a website “celebrating life at the bottom” [of the advertising profession]. The card is playful, but loses points for being out of register on the front. I guess they’re still learning the ropes of print production…
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Please tell me I am not the only one who feels a burning, infernal hatred for those blasted stick-of-gum half-cards that are all the rage the days. Moo.com has made them popular among the internet-savvy new media set, much to my chagrin. The backs are customisable, which is nice. But you don’t need a fancy [...]
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A navy blue felt card with gold foil stamping could be appropriate for some sorts of businesses, but I don’t think anything so lusty is warranted for a restaurant. Bad type and layout make it unwarranted for pretty much anything, though. Close-up of the craziness.
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I’m glad that I wasn’t around for this apparent trend in card design. This mind-bending experience of a card appears to be some kind of metallic ink varnish laid on in a haphazard pattern to resemble that brushed metal finish that some metalworkers like to do. I really don’t know how to describe it. Naturally, [...]
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Jordan T. Farkas is, apparently, an Art Director. Don’t tell anyone, but he’s also Batman.
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Props to BTR Recovery Specialists for being bold enough to rock a card with not one, not two, but three straplines! Obviously, the cheeky phrase “Now you see it, now you don’t” is a reference to the stealthiness of their repossessing skills, and it’s good to know that they recover anything, as indicated by the [...]
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The card for Hello World Communications isn’t great. Lots of info, a clashing colour scheme, and the dented Golden Spiral which seems a bit out of left field. But the real WTF moment comes when we flip the card and see the juxtaposition of the Tensometer. Novelties aside, why would a film and video production [...]
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