Travis Sinclair

Buisness Card Design

By Travis Sinclair

   on Aug 25, 2009
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  • Stephanie Collins

    Stephanie Collins

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    Font

    Posted on Aug 25, 2009 at 11:47 PM

    The overall design is minimalistic and simple, which works. But in my opinion, a serif font doesn't add to the minimalism, it makes it look accidental. I would try using a high-quality sans serif (like Helvetica or the Gotham fonts) and see if you like it.

  • Umbreen Tapal

    Umbreen Tapal

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    change the font size

    Posted on Aug 26, 2009 at 5:09 AM

    I like the design for the business card, i think its quite novel. what i would change is your contact info font (perhaps?) or make it smaller at least to make it visually distinct.

    for the regular font, i like it. Don't know what your art and design is like but reminds of something like industrial, antique-y.

  • Dominic Ling

    Dominic Ling

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    none

    Posted on Aug 26, 2009 at 11:12 PM

    typography

  • Kyle Stiers

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    Layout & image

    Posted on Aug 27, 2009 at 8:56 AM

    The overall layout needs some work. There is not a real focal point besides the badly cropped and distorted image. Try a more dynamic layout with better type treatment.

  • goldeni ganesh

    goldeni ganesh

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    not bad

    Posted on Aug 27, 2009 at 11:20 AM

    good work

  • Amy Feger

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    Take out the border...

    Posted on Aug 29, 2009 at 4:34 PM

    I think this would be a great opportunity to actually make this picture look like a fossil and have it a clay color altogether and have a pressed imprint of your picture rather than a colored on. So, when the person you are trying to impress actually can feel the texture of the card and the impression. Maybe fool with the pressed up or down idea with your name and phone # as well?

    Maybe three of your objects dynamically caught in time across the card smaller to bigger?

    Your name should stand out more than the rest of the stuff...right?

    I love the picture chosen for the words you use to describe you and your work.

    • Travis Sinclair
      Travis Sinclair commented:
      Posted: on Aug 29, 2009 at 5:21 PM

      actually, that is an awesome idea! i'll have to somehow make a mold or press in order to get the image raised/sunken. (i don't sub out printing unless it is large format - i even make my own paper!) but hanks for the idea! (+t)

  • Joel Acevedo

    Joel Acevedo

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    Image. Background.

    Posted on Aug 29, 2009 at 8:12 PM

    I see you have a fascination with fosils, etc. :)

    1) The art + design of - should be smaller. Your name should be bigger.

    2) The image - the image is not good, sorry! :(

    3) Try some background instead of white.

    The rest looks ok.

  • Josh Nielsen

    Josh Nielsen

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    cleaner image extraction

    Posted on Aug 25, 2009 at 8:54 PM

    not really sure how to remedy this, but to me the ?trilobyte? has a very obvious "extracted with photoshop" look.

    • Josh Nielsen
      Josh Nielsen commented:
      Posted: on Aug 25, 2009 at 8:56 PM

      didn't realize this was a business card, maybe it is less obvious at a smaller scale. what is "art + extinction" supposed mean?

    • Travis Sinclair
      Travis Sinclair commented:
      Posted: on Aug 25, 2009 at 9:50 PM

      the art + extinction....i love the way it sounds, and the extinction of man / post-apocalyptic theme tends to come up in my work. on a t-shirt i made, i screen printed some graphics of ants and it said "god intervened, man became extinct" a lot of what i do tends to focus on mankind's existence as being 'temporary' (makes people squirm)

  • Kris Sauquillo

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    Passable, but room for improvement.

    Posted on Aug 25, 2009 at 9:20 PM

    The card looks pretty boring, to be honest. I'd say try using a picture of the fossil embedded in rocks as the whole card's background, then have the text as the top layer. Mess around with that for a bit and see what you get.

  • Ananda Bandaru

    Ananda Bandaru

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    Better Design

    Posted on Aug 25, 2009 at 10:48 PM

    Design looks aweful. Take it as a learning step. As per the current web standards it should be easy on your eyes. 1. Try to use gradient backgrounds (may be light green). 2. The creature you are displaying, I have no idea what it is. But make it blurred. 3. Change the fonts.

    These points are from design point of view. I can't get your concept. May be too complex for me!