Business Card Design

After reading a post on one of the many design sites I follow I decided to try and create my own. I was hoping to come up with something new and exciting like the ones I had seen but thought it best to keep it simple. After all the best design is often the simplest.

So I need some feedback. My website name needs to be changed as well as my YouTube to allow for design consistency but here is the preliminary design.

The cards are double sided.

Next I decided to try and add a bit of interactivity to the card. Why? Because I am nearly an ‘interaction designer’ so thought I would catch people’s attention better if they actually had to do something with the card. I toyed with a few ideas (such as giving away chewing gum) and other things but decided on a QR tag on the back. It reminded me of the Men In Black business card from the film.

Here is the card with the same information as text when read by a QR tag reader. (http://reader.kaywa.com)

The problem with this one is that the camera didn’t read it. Maybe because there is too much information to pick up or just the fact that it is being tested on screen so maybe the reader struggles. Either way I decided to simplify the information down.

Now the QR tag simply has my mobile number and a message that it asks the phone to send to me “Hi Craig, would you like an interview?”. I thought it was quite a nice touch.

The only downside is that there really is no information on the card. Perhaps I should change that.

[EDIT]

So after some consideration I decided that I need both. Here is the final concept, some work still need to do but I am happy with what is on the card.

Just need to tweak colours and spacing.