It's Business (Card) Time

Personally, I'd change P: (I presume it means Personal) to T:

Also, I think if you made "I make things" in light and "better" in bold (all white) it would be clearer than those two colours that REALLY dont go together. ARRGH MY EYES!!!!

I like the address though, looks good.

TUP

I like! Of the two fronts, I'd take the top. Would like to see the minimalism of the card carry over into the website as well.

Keep the address. Don't worry if people know it is a residence. If anyone asks, just say the commute is really good.

I agree with Jhouse, "T:" is more commonly used than "P:", at least from the business cards I've seen. I wouldn't have known what P meant if he didn't mention it.

I like the top (white) on my screen, but I think the second (gray) one might look cooler when printed -- the red is a little hard to read on the gray, however.

The slate gray "better" word on the back is quite hard to read against the red, as well -- not sure if this is an occasion that would work when printed but looks weird on a monitor.

It might be an optical illusion, but on the white card, the spacing seems kinda off between the words "Mercer" and "Retoucher". It might be mathematically correct, but it looks off to my eyes for some reason. The gray card seems to have more space between those two words.

I don't see a problem with using your home address, especially if that's where you want people to send checks. ;) A lot of people work from home nowadays.

My first concern when seeing these cards was that you seem to have chosen a tri-color scheme, but these colours are nowhere on your website. If you gave me this card, I would assume that your site would be consistent with the card's theme. I think that sticking with a general theme might be more memorable in the long run.

Keep up the good work! I enjoy looking at your stuff. :)

I'd remove the P, F, E, W all together, and just designate the fax. The rest are self-evident what they are.

I don't have my physical address on my cards, just my contact info. But I do have all my info on my web site. I recently hosted a web design seminar and made some cards specifically for that with my location as: "In The Boonies, Outside of Nashville, TN" just to see if anyone would notice.

Only a couple people mentioned it.

Good stuff. Keep it coming.

Very nice and simple as design should be. Agreed about the comments above also

Thanks for the feedback everyone,

Good point about the using T: rather than P:. I did try not having them at all, but the fax definitely needs identifying, and designating only the fax number looked unbalanced.

From the prints I've done at home, the white and grey text against the red sits OK. I know on a monitor the effect is pretty hard on the eyes, but on paper it seems much more subdued. And, thanks to my dying laptop monitor, the colour on this version is actually way more orange than i wanted. My website uses highlights that are quite a rich red, and with some colour management the two should match up in the end.

And after some research I discovered that PO Boxes are actually quite cheap, so I'm going to get one of those rather than use my home address...

Cheers all,

Dave

it probably won't matter, but just so you know, if you try to put either red on black or black on red on a regular copier, it will come through as one big block of black (or gray). they're equal tones and show up the same.

this was one of the earliest copy protection schemes for computer games, where people had to input unlock codes to play a game. they'd print the text in black on red paper so that people couldn't make a copy of it.

I like the tagline. Maybe you can come up with an idea that demonstrates it.

Make your name bigger. It's not catching my eye. Otherwise these cards are pretty sharp, simple and clean.

I'd recommend possibly a scaled back bit of art in the background; varnished for a cool accent on the card. Other than that, keep what you've got.

As for your address, unless you want people to contact you there or send you mail there for your business, don't bother putting it on. Keep it simple, usually mobile and email are enough to keep the communication flowing. :D

Oh, and your tagline should probably be, "I make IMAGES better". Not just "Things" since you are, in fact, a retoucher.

It would be nice if we could see something a bit larger.
I can't read the type, and the symbols just look like blur to me..

From what I can see though, it looks fine.

As far as the home address issue goes, I'd leave it on.. A lot of graphics people work from home. Do you intend on having meetings at your home? If you will never have a client over for a meeting, there really is no point in having that information on your card. I guess that is something to consider.