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I'm going back into private practice, so I've had to create some new business cards. What do people think?
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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Is the goldfish picture your logo?
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M AH - ch ain saw
Join Date: May 2004
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I like them.
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Ice Arrow Sniper
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Looks okay to me.
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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I like it. Gives a feeling of peace for some reason.
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Thanks guys. I tried hard to create a unified image between my website and my business cards and I think it came out ok.
The goldfish picture is my defacto logo right now. I really like it. It's part of my squarespace template design. I'm trying to find out how to pay for rights to its use outside of the template but I'm not exactly sure where to start. Any thoughts? If it's not red and showing substantial musculature, you're wearing it wrong. |
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Veteran Member
Join Date: May 2004
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Not bad, but the asymmetry of the fish is driving me nuts. I keep looking at the negative space trying to make it into something.
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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To me, the orange of the fish doesn't work with the light grey background. What does it look like with white background? Or cream? Do the fish get more "pop"?
I'm also unsure about the all-caps sans-serif titles with lowercase serif text below. Maybe make the fonts consistent? Or at least use the same font throughtout with all-caps for the titles. I prefer the sans-serif font myself, but that's just an opinion. |
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I had a hard time with some of the layout, particularly around that middle section. I decided that I should just go with the space.
I'll work up a version with all sans serif fonts but I'm afraid of trying to seem *too* trendy with sans serif everywhere. If it's not red and showing substantial musculature, you're wearing it wrong. |
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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Oh, and the thing that a designer friend of mine always says is; get something printed on the back, too. Maybe the fish logo on it's own. Or "Durham DBT". Just print something - makes the card seem classier if it's double-sided, and the additional cost is trivial.
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I've got some appointment information on the back. Not exciting, I know, but functional. I should put the fish back there but maybe I'll have 2 sets - one for patients and one to give out to clinician's etc.
If it's not red and showing substantial musculature, you're wearing it wrong. |
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: State of Flux
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I think the card looks good, torifile. Getting rights to use that fish design outside of the hosted template might prove to be more a challenge. The templates seem to belong to Squarespace; if you really want to know, you could ask them. Good luck with your practice! |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Needs some Comic Sans to look friendlier, but some Copperplate to balance it out and look professional... and swap out those asymmetrical fish for a badass Ouroboros. With FLAMES! But maybe that makes it too awesome, and you need to add something to keep it interesting for the ladies, like a pink background or a lolcat. And some starry sparkles for the kids, 'cause vampires sparkle, right?
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Veteran Member
Join Date: May 2004
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Hey, that's *my* shrink's card!
But... CBT? Jesus man, that's harsh. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: 🇦🇺
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Love it - especially the quasi-connection of the surname and the address.
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Sheeeiit. That design's just oozing with awesome. Everyone picked up on the psychiatric subtexts of the Ouroborus and the ceiling cat, right?
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Hell yeah it is!
Definitely charge by the pixel...and then double it, because that's how good it is! I was going to submit a couple of ideas and refinements of my own, but jeez..why bother now? I just hit Command+Q on Photoshop and Illustrator and called it a night. There's your card, Sammy. You're a poopyhead if you don't use it. |
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I'd go to you if you had that card. My old psych's office had just a plain boring card with name, number, address. This is oozing with cool. Your patients totally want cool.
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Shit. Are we talking about Brad's masterwork or my drab, boring card?
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I am worthless beyond hope. Join Date: May 2004
Location: Inner Swabia. If you have to ask twice, don't.
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I like the idea of the circling koi on the back of the card. I would replace them on the front with a more side view swimming coi, a play on the image on the back and your overall website design. I would differentiate the font between DURHAM DBT... and your name more so than it is now. Playing around with fonts will help separate them. ... |
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Veteran Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Near Indianapolis
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Anybody else look at the logo and immediately think of the Firefox logo?
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Brad, that card is fucking epic. If a couple of addresses are changed on it, I would think that should go as a shirt design.
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Hmm?
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Too much information on there. I'd centre the logo on the reverse of the card (emboss it if you can), with the Durham DBT text. Drop some of the text -- having the DURHAM DBT and then your name in columns is kinda weird. It just looks really busy. Do you need all that information on there? Has anybody ever faxed you in a first instance of contact? Since 1980?
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awesome Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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If you do decide to keep the current arrangement, I would be sure to align the baselines of the upper two columns ("Durham DBT, Inc./Specializing in DBT and CBT" and "Sammy F. Banawan, Ph.D./Licensed blah blah").
It does sort of feel like all the information is crowded into the corners, particularly in the upper left. Rendering "Durham DBT, Inc." in lowercase might help, or else increasing the tracking (as on your website). You could also try reducing the border a bit -- right now you have a thicker border with narrower cell padding, and you could reverse the two. That might help open things up a bit. Right now I see two poor fish trying to escape, but being blocked at every turn by text. If it were me, I'd shrink the fish a good deal and use them as a divider between "Durham DBT..." and "Sammy...Ph.D.," which I'd center vertically, allowing for a single row of the most crucial information accross the bottom of the card — and on the back, a larger version of the fish design (maybe a white line version knocked out of orange?). But that's just what I'd do. Personal question: Is there a reason you're including your middle initial? I just see lots of medical professionals do that, for some reason, and it always fascinates me. Does "Sammy Banawan, Ph.D." convey less gravitas? and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong Last edited by Robo : 2010-08-21 at 07:50. |
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What Kickaha said; the fish should be symmetric. The two fonts also kind of clash; I'd drop the serif altogether and make everything sans-serif for ease of reading.
There's generally too much info, too many boxes, and too many different font sizes. You want the important bits to pop out and make people interested in that. For instance, having your name to the right of the company name but right-aligned and a tad smaller looks unbalanced. While your license number is noteworthy, I'd make that whole line a lot smaller and place that at the bottom left, putting the website and e-mail address between address and phone numbers, having a single box of all contact information, only separated by a line break (and perhaps a line, bullet, tilde or similar). Also, what others said about a back side. |
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Formerly Roboman, still
awesome Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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I agree with most else you say, about consolidating the contact information; there's too many points of alignment as is (I'm not sure what the fish are aligned to). I might be a bit too forward-thinking on this, but I'd question the need for a (physical) address on the card; how many people are going to visit the practice in person without calling, emailing, or visiting the website first? I'm with Iago on this one; business cards are all about that first instance of contact. I think of business cards as being for an individual, not a building/organization. Alternatively, the address could go on the back, with a larger fish "logo"; that way one side would represent tori and the other side his practice. Four semicolons. Woo! and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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