Typophile

New Identity/Biz Card

dave bailey

I’m graduating in just over a month and I’ve developed a new identity for myself. This is the application to the biz card, which will then be followed by the resumé and website. Please let me know your thoughts.

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Love the mark and the colors!

For how tight you’ve spaced the letters in “Dave Bailey”, the word spacing isn’t tight enough. (I do think you’ve spaced it too tightly for the typeface.)

I’m not sure about the em-dashes surrounding your titles.

The three lines that follow need more line-spacing.

I’m might consider make your name smaller and try left-justifying instead of right.

I’m not sure about the white outline on the back. Or the white box for that matter. Gratuitous maybe? What if you just had the two lines/boxes of color? This would echo the logo and be more subtle.

Ah, lovely quick response! The mark came from a bunch of doodling I did in the margins of my notebook, imagine that!

I was wondering about it being too tight, the glyph designs have unique serif designs and as such I couldn’t make up my mind if it was ok to overlap them. There was even a slight mod. to the leg of the _L_ for spacing reasons...I’ll rethink my name.

Maybe I should stick to original ideas and stop thinking so much, that’s what I did with the mark. The back was originally just the two colors, like you suggested.

I shall report back!

I would echo the comments of Miss Tiffany...

..and add that I’m not sure your choice of typeface reflects the interesting logo you have designed yourself. I like your logo design and think you could also push the layout a bit further.

As a starting point I like the way the logo sits on the front, however I think you could be a bit more adventurous with the layout of the text, maybe reflect the shape of the logo a bit more... don’t be afraid of leaving white space? Maybe overlap some of the text on top of the logo in the way that the ’d’ and ’b’ interact with each other?

The back does’nt match the design you have on the front, maybe keep it simple like the front without the text, or an abstract version of the logo?

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