Sunday, May 2, 2010

Business Card Design Pictures & Text





I'm designing new business cards using the template on my Apple MacBook. You can put in a picture and text.
If you click on the image of business cards left of the picture of me you can see the page large enough to see the pictures. Click on it again and you can read the text.
I've made one version larger.


I used their picture of a typewriter. But I don't use a typewriter. I use a MacBook. How come their business card template doesn't show a MacBook? I suppose the reason is that the MacBook might be out of date or not the model you use. But the typewriter is merely symbolic, and is an out of copyright pictures from years ago.
It's like using a quill pen to represent a writer. It's merely symbolic. Would it be more misleading (trades description act comes to mind)or absurd to show a modern pen which is not the type that the writer actually uses?

Instead of text I had a picture I'd drawn - apparently coming out of the typewriter. That's absurd. An old fashioned typewriter did not do pictures. But a computer or printer shows pictures.

So I need a picture of a computer. Then I took a photo of computer. I asked somebody in the Apple store to take a photo of me with my MacBook.

I am very satisfied. I am making progress. Small steps every day. Rome wasn't built in a day.