Comments on: Analog Marketing and Our New Business Card Design

By: Nic Darling

Nic Darling — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:13:26 +0000

Oh Hitler . . . yet another reason why the world would have been better of without you.

I actually changed Courtney’s so the blind-folded girl is gone. I’ll post a picture of the new card soon.

By: lawless

lawless — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:22:51 +0000

I like the personalization of the sillouettes. Adds a nice touch to an otherwise impersonal artifact. Also, it gives you a quick reminder of who the person was (hitler or the blindfolded girl ;D) instead of having to remember the name and business.

I’m sure WordPress would love the fact that you used their logo as the ubiquitous sign for “blog”. I had to check out the websites though to see the differentiation between postgreen.com and postgreenhomes.com.

Tight work overall though. Print media is still an art form all its own.

By: Hollie

Hollie — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:50:26 +0000

That actually was not boring at all, and helpful in an extremely unhelpful way because now I feel like I need to do a lot more work on my cards! Woe is me! Anyway, I enjoy the design of your cards save for the aforementioned hitler-esque picture and blindfold.

And as for the guy with 1200 old business cards – I’m sure there is a creative way to get rid of them like cladding a dog house with them or something. I have little plastic samples of Lutron switchplate colors, and I have often thought about arranging them on the side of our chicken coop. I might still do it.

By: bob

bob — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:50:17 +0000

I would definitely look into letterpress rather than plain old ink on cardstock http://swinburnearchitect.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/card.jpg When I saw a letterpress business card for the first time I immediately threw away all my old cards.

By: Achim

Achim — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:59:29 +0000

Great post, great assessment of the need for b-cards! I have shared this within my company and hopefully it will trigger some thought for change.

I agree btw with the comments about the ‘Hitler-look’. I guess as a German native I naturally picked up on it right away. You may want to re-consider the layout somewhat and change the shadows.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

By: Will

Will — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:24:23 +0000

What happened to the triplex post?
I like the layout that pulls in the most rent!!

By: Cyndi

Cyndi — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:17:19 +0000

I like business cards, and I like the design overall, but Court looks much prettier than that! Hope you can change her pic…..

By: lavardera

lavardera — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:18:17 +0000

Ok, as consolation I can see a really funny Hitler Bunker Rant meme video coming out of all of this, starring Hitler as Nic, with PostGreen interns gathered around the table and map of Kennsington.

Nervous intern: ummm, Mr. Darling, we noticed that the drawing of you on the new business cards, well, you look like .. Hitler.

Nic:(dismissive) It does not matter, we’ll revise it before we send it out to print…

Other nervous intern: uhhh, Mr. Darling, sir, we’ve already printed the cards and they arrived today.

Nic: What? You printed the cards and I look like f-cling Hitler? Everybody who does not think I look like Hitler step outside..

By: Kelly Gidzinski

Kelly Gidzinski — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:02:55 +0000

This post was so timely in that I was just poking around looking for your business card to give you a call. I see the Hitler thing. Stinks you already printed. Well I left you a voicemail and look forward to talking with you.

By: Nic Darling

Nic Darling — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:23:04 +0000

Wow, I feel like someone here should have mentioned the Hitler thing before I printed. I never noticed, but then one rarely sees the despotic homicidal dictator in oneself.

Courtney’s cards have not been printed yet, so she may get saved from the blindfold.