That Tall Dude.com

As I slowly get new projects to work on, and work on computers for more and more people, it is apparent I need business cards. I had some skinny cards made up by Moo Cards nearly a year ago, but I ran out of those long ago.

I’d like to support our local small town businesses (I can print these locally), so I started messing around in InDesign and Illustrator, trying to come up with something simple, yet catchy, all while being easy to read. I’d like to know what you think.

I really didn’t have any idea what I was doing here. I just kind of threw something together, then messed around with the shadow on the stick figure.

I thought the motorcycle auctions long, stretched out stick figure might be neat, obviously as a play on my height and screen name. However, this led to the need to get creative with fitting everything in beside it, a challenge causing some of the long names to be split to 2 and 3 lines.

The complete vertical look sticks out in a sea of horizontal designs though.

This is basically the same as the first, but refined just a touch, and without the stick figure. I think it looks better, but without an image of any kind, I’m not sure how memorable it will be.

This also maintains a definitive vertical look, while also reminding people that I’m the local guy to call for computer help.

The first two were done in InDesign, I thought I’d play with Illustrator for a bit, and I came up with this. I think this is the cleanest of the three, as well as the most memorable.

After several attempts to do a good looking border around ‘Computer Geek’ and ‘Shawn Kirsch,’ I decided none of them looked very clean, and started playing with just a straight line to help separate them from the rest, as well as bring some color to it.

What I ended up with was two lines with a definite resemblance to a cross. I especially like that because of all the work I do at Church and with the Youth Group. It also serves as a subtle statement of my faith to everyone who gets one of these cards.

I’ve already decided to use a blue and green scheme for future branding purposes. When people see blue and green, I want it to trigger thoughts of the work I’ve done. There are also some psychological reasons for those colors, and they also go well together.

So what do you think of these designs? What’s your favorite? Are there things in any of them I could have done differently to make them better? I’m open to any and all feedback on these. Drop your notes off in the comment section.

Side note: If you have any thoughts on what a particularly good card stock to print these one would be, let me know.