Business Card Design

For the development of my Business card I wanted to create a card that would hold all my contact details and relevant information so that a potential  employee could contact me and access data with regards to a CV, work experience and existing models and designs. I understand that it wasn’t a requirement of the module to develop a website but by creating a website that was aimed as an add-on for my CV and Business Card, it has enabled me to create a theme that can be used throughout my portfolio. It has also boosted my skills and confidence is creating a portfolio that I could potentially use to aid me to getting a job on successful completion of my degree.

The Business Card is based mainly on a theme that is constructed with my logo and a 3D image that consists of my black, white and green colours. The 3D image is a representation of my 3D animation and modelling capabilities as well as the colour theme. This has been incorporated into the theme and design of the business card. It is also the theme of my website.

Once the theme had been established after several hours of testing with different types of symbols and imagery for a theme, I stuck to the image that is incorporated into the business card now as I felt that it works particularly well with my colour theme of black, white and green. The green colours are not to strong and remain clearly visible. There are elements of white within this 3D image theme but I feel that they work well as the backgrounds on both the CV and Business card are white. The two green bars used within the business card form a structure support to the card itself and the text enclosed between them.  

The main objective of this business card is to sell myself to a potential employer with the skills that I feel are my strongest. I had given myself a title on the business card that I feel strongly advertises myself and my strongest skills (3D Animator and IT Graphic Designer). This is the title of the business card as it is the most important element of the card and will be the selling point of myself and my skills.

The second element of importance on this business card is my name and design logo.  I have incorporated my design logo into my name so that it blends in well together with the business card. I have attempted to keep everything in a centre margin on the business card so as to maintain a balance. I have reduced alot of the content that was originally on the business card layout to simplify it.

All the text used on this Business Card remains in black. This is because I feel that with the 3D theme fits in well with my black, white and green colour theme and also keeps the business card clean, tidy and clearly visible to read the information.

On the back of the business card I have used the same design and layout as on the front, keeping everything in the centre and the same template. On the back I have included my contact details. I felt that these appeared too crowded on the front and it was essential that I had use of the space on the rear.