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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: recursivelyenumerable on April 28, 2010, 08:38:18 PM

Title: nothing ventured, nothing gained!
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on April 28, 2010, 08:38:18 PM: Basically I want something that looks like this ->

(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z47/contextfree/Capture-1.png)

(i.e. WP7/Metro-ish minimalism, but without actually using Segoe Light)

except NOT HIDEOUS. I'm insecure about the rhythms and proportions here, and not sure how to fix them. Should I just abandon the diagonal thing?

agggh wtf is this not showing up? it works when I do "open image in new tab" tho
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on April 28, 2010, 09:05:19 PM: :)
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 28, 2010, 09:17:11 PM: (http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k33/GreatRumbler/businesscard.jpg)
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on April 28, 2010, 09:18:09 PM: Hate Copperplate, sorry.
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 28, 2010, 09:41:54 PM: People still actually use business cards?
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: demi on April 28, 2010, 09:42:48 PM: Um, yes :lol
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: Ichirou on April 28, 2010, 09:48:59 PM: Ah, the joys of being a college kid. :rofl
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 29, 2010, 03:24:06 PM: Quote from: Father_Mike on April 28, 2010, 09:41:54 PM
People still actually use business cards?
:lol
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: BlueTsunami on April 29, 2010, 03:59:15 PM: :drake Well it was nice speaking to you, average modern mid level manager

:spitzer Do you happen to have a business card, Mr. Arvie?

:drake I'm sorry, no, you'll just have to commit it to memory I guess

:spitzer SMH
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on April 29, 2010, 04:20:53 PM: I definitely appreciate the effort, and I like the layouts, but the font is a bit wilder than I'd like. I'll mull it over. I'd probably prefer something more Futura-ish, but I don't have Futura on this computer ...
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 29, 2010, 04:41:02 PM: Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on April 29, 2010, 04:20:53 PM
I definitely appreciate the effort, and I like the layouts, but the font is a bit wilder than I'd like. I'll mull it over. I'd probably prefer something more Futura-ish, but I don't have Futura on this computer ...

Come on. It's like the cards are saying "recursive: Software developer by day, hairdresser by night". What potential boss wouldn't want that?
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: demi on April 29, 2010, 04:46:30 PM: That font is horrible
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on April 29, 2010, 05:08:57 PM: Yeah but Segoe is basically Frutiger -- a fairly understated font.

This happens every time I ask for help designing something, I can never articulate what I want and as a consequence I never get it, I just annoy the designer with endless vague requests for revisions, until he finally gives up and quits.
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 29, 2010, 05:09:33 PM: Quote from: BlueTsunami on April 29, 2010, 03:59:15 PM
:drake Well it was nice speaking to you, average modern mid level manager

:spitzer Do you happen to have a business card, Mr. Arvie?

:drake I'm sorry, no, you'll just have to commit it to memory I guess

:spitzer SMH

:lol :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on April 29, 2010, 05:25:16 PM: Now I'm not sure. I don't know what I want anymore. This is why I can't get a girlfriend either :'(
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: Yeti on April 29, 2010, 05:50:59 PM: He has his pick of women and fonts, he just can't choose. :'(
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: Vizzys on April 30, 2010, 03:04:52 PM: this guy has some nice free fonts:

http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/index.html

not that it probably matters
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: Vizzys on April 30, 2010, 03:06:35 PM: but I like posting fonts
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: OptimoPeach on April 30, 2010, 03:09:46 PM: Enlist the help of this guy

[youtube=560,345]4YBxeDN4tbk[/youtube]
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: Robo on April 30, 2010, 03:12:47 PM: That guy really does have the best fucking business card ever.
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 30, 2010, 03:25:08 PM: it's missing something

(http://www.bitbetter.com/watcher.gif)
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: MCD on April 30, 2010, 03:35:25 PM: >gmail

you ain't working for ms like this.
Title: Re: Help me design a business card (now with actual working picture embed)
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on April 30, 2010, 06:36:04 PM: So do the rest of you guys agree it looks too "elitist clothing store" (?) with the Futura? I just picked it because it's my favorite typeface in general, but maybe it's inappropriate here. Maybe just go back to the Corbel I originally picked? Sigh ...
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 30, 2010, 07:18:30 PM: in my line of work i find this style of business card to be extremely effective

(http://promotions.advanceweb.com/images/products/2009/CP/CP_pens_pencils/09894_NerdeMiniNotebookPen_CP/09894_NerdeMiniNotebookPen_CP_med.jpg)
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: Don Flamenco on April 30, 2010, 07:18:55 PM: (http://imgur.com/5l44c.png)
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 01, 2010, 01:07:37 PM: I have burned all my bridges it seems
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: BlueTsunami on May 01, 2010, 01:08:16 PM: How about this one? It might be a little too professional though

spoiler (click to show/hide)
(http://i42.tinypic.com/mrvjmo.jpg)
[close]
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 01, 2010, 01:10:49 PM: :lol :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: Robo on May 01, 2010, 01:55:18 PM: I would definitely use that one.
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 01, 2010, 01:58:06 PM: Am pretty sure Cooper is the next Helvetica, so it might be worth a shot
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 01, 2010, 02:17:52 PM: but I don't understand why "with" is italic ???
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: Don Flamenco on May 01, 2010, 02:27:01 PM: natural point of emphasis. Doin' thangs WITH software. Makes software that much more important. Like you might just be every Joe Sixpack who's doin' thangs, but you're doin' thangs WITH software.
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 01, 2010, 03:02:02 PM: I see ... so the contrast highlighted here isn't with SOFTWARE vs. with SOMETHING OTHER THAN SOFTWARE, but rather WITH software vs. WITHOUT software? Is it meant to suggest that software-having-ness is really orthogonal to other-things-having-ness, and of course that there's no substitute for software?
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 01, 2010, 03:14:19 PM: If we weren't facebook friends I'd think Recursive was TVC or Prole's joke character
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: MCD on May 01, 2010, 03:15:10 PM: Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on May 01, 2010, 03:02:02 PM
I see ... so the contrast highlighted here isn't with SOFTWARE vs. with SOMETHING OTHER THAN SOFTWARE, but rather WITH software vs. WITHOUT software? Is it meant to suggest that software-having-ness is really orthogonal to other-things-having-ness, and of course that there's no substitute for software?
EXACTLY!
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 01, 2010, 03:16:14 PM: I don't understand why PD would think that.
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: MCD on May 01, 2010, 03:18:29 PM: he's a hardware person.
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: Don Flamenco on May 01, 2010, 03:28:07 PM: Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on May 01, 2010, 03:02:02 PM
I see ... so the contrast highlighted here isn't with SOFTWARE vs. with SOMETHING OTHER THAN SOFTWARE, but rather WITH software vs. WITHOUT software? Is it meant to suggest that software-having-ness is really orthogonal to other-things-having-ness, and of course that there's no substitute for software?

*googles "orthogonal"*

the answer is yes!
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: Reb on May 03, 2010, 04:32:52 AM: Quote from: Don Flamenco on May 01, 2010, 03:28:07 PM
Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on May 01, 2010, 03:02:02 PM
I see ... so the contrast highlighted here isn't with SOFTWARE vs. with SOMETHING OTHER THAN SOFTWARE, but rather WITH software vs. WITHOUT software? Is it meant to suggest that software-having-ness is really orthogonal to other-things-having-ness, and of course that there's no substitute for software?

*googles "orthogonal"*

the answer is yes!

I installed the Chrome Dictionary extensions, just for recursive posts.
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 03, 2010, 11:37:29 AM: Score. Another commission goes into my check from the Chrome Dictionary cabal.
Title: Re: Help me be indecisive and waste people's time
Post by: Reb on May 03, 2010, 01:47:29 PM: "If you refer to a group of politicians or other people as a cabal, you are criticizing them because they meet and decide things secretly."