Design a business card for BRL-CAD. These will be cards that community members who got selected in GSOC or in GCI or even for core contributors can give out to others at conferences, meetings, interviews, etc. The design will get filled in with personal information like name, title, phone number, email, maybe a mailing address too.
Submit a one-sided or two-sided design that can be filled in with personal information and sent to a business card printer (or even printed at home).
Designing of BRL-CAD membership cards can be done in LaTeX, GIMP, Photoshop or any other editing software. Please submit your raw working files (e.g., a PSD or XCF with layers) as well as a "preview" example png.
Search the web or other GCI tasks for inspiration, but make sure you only incorporate artwork that we'd have the ability to redistribute without any restriction (look for CC-BY or BSD/MIT license or public domain content), or keep it simple and fully design the card yourself.
Please DO use any of our formal (the three rings) or informal (the moose antlers) logos, include a link to our website in your design, and be sure to put a "dash" in BRL-CAD. Please do NOT create a military-looking theme, use our old eagle logo, or simply copy someone else's design.
Be awesome, be creative, be inspired, be original. ;)
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| mockup.png | 692.9 KB | December 02 2014 05:10 UTC | |
| front.psd | 156.2 KB | December 02 2014 05:12 UTC | |
| back.psd | 60.8 KB | December 02 2014 05:12 UTC | |
| back2.psd | 90.0 KB | December 02 2014 08:02 UTC | |
| front2.psd | 173.8 KB | December 02 2014 08:02 UTC | |
| variants.png | 96.6 KB | December 02 2014 08:35 UTC | |
| back3.psd | 106.8 KB | December 02 2014 08:36 UTC | |
| front3.psd | 173.6 KB | December 02 2014 08:36 UTC |
I would like to work on this task.
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Hope I am not submitting too fast, have been working on this one last night but could not get the task as I was waiting for a response on my first one.
I am Marc, a 16 year old web designer from Romania and my favorite style is minimalism, which I incorporated in this design. Simple, intuitive, professional and modern are the key words I would use to describe my design, I hope you like it as much as I do, and if you don't just tell me what you want modified. I am trying to surpass expectations and hope I started right.
Also, it's great to see we have a fellow Romanian working with you guys, cheers Mihai!
Regards,
Marc
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Your design is awesome, but it needs some improvements. Add "BRL-CAD" (or/with any tagline), as somebody may not get the organization name from the logo. You can also use colors for the logo, which is on the backside of card.
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I used a modified version of the logo to maintain minimalism as too many colors would alter the color scheme too much for my tastes, if that makes sense. I consider two-colored designs to be the best looking ( http://www.tannousmarc.com/work.html that's what I do in all of them ).
I thought that the website should be mentioned somewhere in there so I placed it on the back side, while the company name is on the front side. Hope you like the design!
Regards,
Marc
This is again fantastic Marc. I like the minimalism and limited colors actually fits well for a business card (multi-color printing is usually much more expensive). That said, I also agree that saying BRL-CAD somewhere on the card was definitely in order. However, I think under the logo on the front was probably sufficient. The URL on the back makes it feel slightly off-centered. Having just brlcad.org probably would have been better balanced, but I'm not convinced a URL is necessary.
Certainly nobody I'm going to hand a card to will have trouble finding our website. ;)
Curious color choice. Any reason you didn't go with one of our theme colors? (pinkish reds, dark grays, or black) It's certainly stylish but I'd love to hear if there is some motivation or familiarity that you based it on.
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In my other task I went with a dark blue, thought I'd make them on the color scheme. It was probably personal preference more than anything else to be honest, that is why I am working on variants on pinkish reds and dark grays at the moment, will upload them in a second for review. Sorry for that.
Regards,
Marc
Uploaded 3 versions in the variants.png file, the first two being just background color changes of the back2.psd file, while the last one I uploaded as back3.psd and front3.psd because it also contained a logo change. Are these what you wanted?
Regards,
Marc
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It was more a curiosity, no need to apologize. I appreciate getting into the thought process when it comes to design tasks, particularly when interacting with someone like yourself that is clearly experienced. I'm sure before GCI is over, there will be other discussions about choice of metaphors, iconography, and typography.
This is all an important focus for our community right now as we've been going through a stylistic renaissance. We were hoping to unveil our new website before GCI began, but that did not come to pass. That's to your benefit though. I'm rather curious to see what sort of design you could come up with.
If you're interested, we can add a couple website design tasks to see what your concept might look like. If that's motivating, there could even be follow-on tasks to sort out items like navigation, layout, icons, and (most importantly) implementation tasks.
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Yeah, I'm not digging that layout multicolored nearly as much as the dichromatic version. But that's easy to fix if we take this to print. Thanks for your efforts!
My main expertise is website design and there are close to none HTML/CSS/JS tasks this far, would be so very happy if you added some ( like design the landing page, design a responsive navigation menu, implement those etc. ) as I would jump right at them.
In the meantime, I have another concept for a business card and saw there is another task identical to this one open. Should I post it here or ask to take that task for a different concept?
Thanks a lot for the insight,
Marc