One or Two Business Cards

[Nakean]

Just wanted to get your folks ideas about having a two sided business card. One displaying my portraits and weddings and such and another with real estate photographs.
Will people take me seriously if I show both sides or am I better off just having two separate cards. I also can see the benefit in letting everyone know I do both. I don't want to miss out on a wedding shoot because I handed a real estate agent my Real Estate only card. What are you thought? Here's my redesign of my portrait card so far....
New Business Card Idea by Nakean, on Flickr

[kcoppock]

My personal opinion is that it would look pretty tacky to have a 2-sided card. Also, most business card stocks are only coated on one side, so you'll be limited on what stock types you can use if you want to do a 2-sided business card. Also, just a nitpick, I'm not a big fan of the font. Arial Narrow, I believe? I've never cared for it, myself. In this case it just doesn't stand out very well against the background, and the sizes seem to be different on different lines.

Sorry if I'm coming across too negative, I certainly don't mean to, it's just the opinionated graphic designer in me.

[Nakean]

Originally Posted by kcoppock

My personal opinion is that it would look pretty tacky to have a 2-sided card. Also, most business card stocks are only coated on one side, so you'll be limited on what stock types you can use if you want to do a 2-sided business card. Also, just a nitpick, I'm not a big fan of the font. Arial Narrow, I believe? I've never cared for it, myself. In this case it just doesn't stand out very well against the background, and the sizes seem to be different on different lines.

Sorry if I'm coming across too negative, I certainly don't mean to, it's just the opinionated graphic designer in me.

It's Helvetica and I was completely turned on to it by a colleague. To each their own I suppose. I do really appreciate your honest feedback. Your right about the text for sure not being the same size. I'll make sure I check in PS before sending off. Thanks again! Do you have another suggestion for font?

[kcoppock]

Originally Posted by Nakean

It's Helvetica and I was completely turned on to it by a colleague. To each their own I suppose. I do really appreciate your honest feedback. Your right about the text for sure not being the same size. I'll make sure I check in PS before sending off. Thanks again! Do you have another suggestion for font?

Really? :O I guess I'm not really familiar with the narrow version of Helvetica. I do very much love the regular Helvetica styles, though. I'm also a fan of using Small Caps for something like this; Do you have Minion Pro? I believe it comes with Photoshop (might be InDesign, though). I've attached a quick example of my thoughts using Minion. I added a slight drop shadow behind the text (it doesn't look as glaring when set against a background like your original, but does help to set the text apart from the background).

[Nakean]

Originally Posted by kcoppock

Really? :O I guess I'm not really familiar with the narrow version of Helvetica. I do very much love the regular Helvetica styles, though. I'm also a fan of using Small Caps for something like this; Do you have Minion Pro? I believe it comes with Photoshop (might be InDesign, though). I've attached a quick example of my thoughts using Minion. I added a slight drop shadow behind the text (it doesn't look as glaring when set against a background like your original, but does help to set the text apart from the background).

Wow That looks awesome! Thank you soo much!

[Nakean]

Originally Posted by kcoppock

Really? :O I guess I'm not really familiar with the narrow version of Helvetica. I do very much love the regular Helvetica styles, though. I'm also a fan of using Small Caps for something like this; Do you have Minion Pro? I believe it comes with Photoshop (might be InDesign, though). I've attached a quick example of my thoughts using Minion. I added a slight drop shadow behind the text (it doesn't look as glaring when set against a background like your original, but does help to set the text apart from the background).

Here's two I came up with using your suggestions. One using Helvetica without butchering by stretching etc. and the other using text you suggested. Thanks for your help.

[kcoppock]

Cool, I do like that better! I'd like to see one with Helvetica but without small caps for comparison sake.

[Nakean]

Originally Posted by kcoppock

Cool, I do like that better! I'd like to see one with Helvetica but without small caps for comparison sake.

Not even sure if this is standard Helvetica. Searched everywhere and finaly found a pack of Helvetica. Everything but just plain "helvetica"

[kcoppock]

I'll bet it's not; I bet that's what's throwing me off. It has some weird baseline alignment issues. If you got it for free, it's likely just a knockoff -- there are quite a few out there. That said, I think I like this version the best of what you've posted, but you might want to throw down a view guide and manually reposition a few of the letters to line up on the baseline.

[Bruce A]

I voted one business card for each, but I meant one for each gentre, not one card. next time I'll try to read correctly. I like Kevin's alternate print style as well.