15 + 3 points
Character Business Cards by Rubin Starset
March 29th, 2006 2:21 PM
I've had a number of personal business cards in my life. Some of my betters ones were during high school, I liked having "Owning Your Mom" next to my name and email. Now there are some things that you need in order to make a pretty good business card...
1) Idea or thought on what you want the design to look like.
2) Some sort of media, 3.5" by 2" white card stock tends to work pretty well.
3) Ink, and maybe a tool or device to in print this ink onto the media.
So here are my thoughts while running down this list...
1) No clue.
2) Crap, I'm out of printer paper.
3) Damn it, all I got is black ink left.
The first problem I'll just deal with while taking care of the other two. The third issue just sort of sucks, black works, but it's something I don't like using all the time. Paper was the major of my problems.
At that point I needed to make use of the bathroom. Feeling sort of stupid for leaving my sidekick on my desk, I was browsing through the magazine rack looking for something to read, when I noticed an old math book that I didn't know I even had still. After flipping through the pages, the idea of using the paper out of this book as media was freaking awesome. I almost crapped my self, hah!
About an hour or two later, and a whole lot of bitching from my printer, I had some pretty good ideas of what I wanted to take down to Kinkos for a transfer and reproduction to harder card stock (school text books don't really have that kind of I want to put this in my pocket feel of paper). The last image listed is the better out of the lot I think. It was kind of a pain finding pages with text I thought would come out good with other things printed on top, only to find out I was totally wrong, or the printer had an alternate plan on spacing.
Once I get some time later today I think I'm going to make a couple of HC and SF0 buttons to maybe use on my site, and also maybe a page about SF0 to throw up there. Kind of feel better about doing it that way then putting up an HC logo on the card and my character's URL.
1) Idea or thought on what you want the design to look like.
2) Some sort of media, 3.5" by 2" white card stock tends to work pretty well.
3) Ink, and maybe a tool or device to in print this ink onto the media.
So here are my thoughts while running down this list...
1) No clue.
2) Crap, I'm out of printer paper.
3) Damn it, all I got is black ink left.
The first problem I'll just deal with while taking care of the other two. The third issue just sort of sucks, black works, but it's something I don't like using all the time. Paper was the major of my problems.
At that point I needed to make use of the bathroom. Feeling sort of stupid for leaving my sidekick on my desk, I was browsing through the magazine rack looking for something to read, when I noticed an old math book that I didn't know I even had still. After flipping through the pages, the idea of using the paper out of this book as media was freaking awesome. I almost crapped my self, hah!
About an hour or two later, and a whole lot of bitching from my printer, I had some pretty good ideas of what I wanted to take down to Kinkos for a transfer and reproduction to harder card stock (school text books don't really have that kind of I want to put this in my pocket feel of paper). The last image listed is the better out of the lot I think. It was kind of a pain finding pages with text I thought would come out good with other things printed on top, only to find out I was totally wrong, or the printer had an alternate plan on spacing.
Once I get some time later today I think I'm going to make a couple of HC and SF0 buttons to maybe use on my site, and also maybe a page about SF0 to throw up there. Kind of feel better about doing it that way then putting up an HC logo on the card and my character's URL.
