New business card design

While I have extended the file to add the necessary margins for the bleed printing and I have not designed the back (which will contain my web site address and email address in very plain B&W), this is the design of the front of my next set of business cards.

I decided I wanted to continue the tradition of have chaotic structure to my card. My previous card had my personal information encoded on it (for the programmers out there: I took the ASCII values of printable values and created a 0-255 spread and set the B part of the RGB pixels). While I have been quite happy with that card and received many compliments, I felt it was time for a change. For one the card is approaching four years old so it seems stale to me. Plus the personal information encoded on it is very old and outdated.

I had been planning on using a white text on black background with some reddish hues for some time. I was originally planning on doing the offside name with a hand-drawn line image like my old card. But then I found NodeBox which is an OS X program that takes Python source code and creates images. I then realized I could write a Python script to auto-generate the image I wanted with some randomness to keep the organic feel to it.

So the colours obviously scale from yellow in the middle to red on the edge in a proper gradient. The boxes scale from the middle to the edge based on the size of a lowercase "t". They boxes alternate which direction they have a random vertical shift. Everything else is a bunch of mathematical fidgeting until I got a card a liked.

I am planning on a glossy finish as I don't think matte would work with the rich black. Otherwise I have a PDF that should be print-ready.

Hopefully I can get my act together and have them printed by US Thanksgiving.