Business card various designs

[xandros]

After reading a lot of stuff and having decided to design a new biz card, I wanted something quite bold and simple, black & white. I already tried a biz card with a photo as a background but even if people get attracted to it, it is kinda distractive IMHO and a sleek clean b&w card looks more professional.

I tried some different choices when placing the contact elements and tested a horizontal and vertical design...

Would like to ask YOU which of those you find the more appealing, clean and professional as I personally am balancing between two or three of them ...

Please if you have a couple of minutes, tell me why you like one specific design over the others or what you do dislike.

Thanks bunches in advance ;)

Here we go :

[Toon]

I like 1 but I'd like to see it half black band and half white, looks a little lost just with the floating black band

[xandros]

yea my favourites are 1 or 2 (but I dunno if it's better to keep typeface consistency or use another font to make the "photographer" word stand out

I also like 4 but less than the vertical ones

Toon, you mean like that ? Isn't the white space above the contact details too big & empty ?

[Toon]

Lower the black a bit more then, it doesn't have to be even

[xandros]

updated, refresh :)

[xandros]

okay after discussing the matter with some other people, a bunch of subtle changes :



is it any better ?

[Mack]

maybe adjust the kerning of "photographe" to be the same width as the hairline above it.

[xandros]

mm, will be kinda awkward to be so wide, maybe better to adjust the hairline to the font instead ?

[docsharp]

I like 1 but something about the font for Photography is making not like it to much.

[Mack]

scratch what i said. i took it into PS and everything lines up nice... although i do kinda like it layed out like this too