Well oh lord these were an absolute mare.

I decided for my design I wanted to use one of my own illustrations, not only to showcase my work on my card but also to keep a theme, as FEMME the cover is an illustration and my portfolio cover is an illustration (albeit a different lip illustration) there’s a coherence and common theme. Therefore my choosing a cropped version of the lips seen on FEMME when exhibited it portrays a conformity and can be recognised as my work.

The illustration printing was really nice, I chose a soft feel paper to give a more luxurious feel which I’m really pleased with but omg the reverse side printing WHICH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT is really really bad.

Printing is so unpredictable, it looks one way on the computer and completely different on paper!

The writing is so light SO SO SO LIGHT, I also had an issue with my illustrator and had to use photoshop to design the back which meant instead of it being made up of vectors it’s pixels which has also affect the quality but unfortunately that couldn’t be helped.

I used Vistaprint (such a good company, always has discounts and offers and really good customer service) and they were more than happy to reprint (woooo), I’ve edited the text on the back enlarging the font and making it darker, I also changed it from saying Fashion Communications to Art Direction as I decided to put that in the uni book as my specialism to make it again uniform.

Original reverse side of card

New improved reverse side of card

Front illustration design on card

My other options for the image on my business card are below, I chose not use these as I wanted to use the same illustration as the cover of FEMME as felt at GFW and the exhibition the consistency will be recognised and associated to me making me more memorable.

I do however like all these options and in the future I would get additional cards printed using at least one or two of these images. I think having more than one option enables you to portray yourself differently depending on who I’m giving the card to.