Business Cards

For my Business card I already knew what kind of theme I wanted.  I wanted simple, easy to read text standing off a dark background.  I knew I wanted white text.  i feel this gives an expect of cleanliness and pureness.  It looks professional and you can't go wrong with it.


Below is my final Business card.  I didn't take any screenshots throughout as I thought this wasn't necessary;

Texture:  I added a texture from the appearance panel called 'sand'.  Sand is a wavy like texture with small dotted lines.  I decreased the opacity to 35% to bring the text off the page.  This covers the whole business card.

Border:  I have created a half border using a 3pt stroke in white.  This complements my name and my areas of work.

Colours:  Simply, black & white.

Fonts:  I have used 2 different fonts.  A script font for my name and a simple, light weighted font for everything else.  

Title:  For my name I have duplicated it and added a shadow effect behind to make it stand out of card.  For course name and location i have triple spaced the type manually.  I feel this adds professionalism and gives the place a sense of credibility.

Social:  I decided not to have a reverse side for my business cards.  I wanted all information in one place.