Personal taste plays a big part, and rightly so when the card is a personal one.

I think the card looks excellent and I am curious now to go feel this material for myself – sounds very interesting. One criticism though – I do really like the rounded corner detail and the way it follows the shape of your DA logo but then the same logo is set against a square corner on the back side. I don’t mean to imply both corners should be rounded – I think your design is superior to that, but it is just kind of a mismatch when I look at it. Again – maybe real designers would say that is on purpose and enhances the style of the card but as a matter of personal taste I was thrown off by that.

Maybe if the style of the logo was to be different on the front and back the back could be left aligned – marking use of the same corner rounding and highlighting the beautiful symmetry of the logo?! (perhaps ditching the second line even with just the logo left aligned). Maybe you already thought of that and didn’t like it – just an idea.

Excellent website and typographic information also – thanks!

Just like you David, I want to print on white 330gsm Plike, with polychromy colour on the front and polychromy with lake selective blocking on the reverse.

I’m just curios the kind of plike did you used David for your cards, is it Plike (Plastic-Like) Paper – PEARL or Plike (Plastic-Like) Paper – WHITE ??

Many thanks,
Adrian

You’re very welcome, and thanks for reading. Pricing is dependent upon many things, not least the talents of the designer. It depends on what you believe your skills to be worth.

Adrian,

Like Darren suggests, what about using foil on white? The Plike is a substrate that doesn’t need any complication, so foil and Plike (plus black or grey) works great.

Plike is such and interesting stock on it’s own it should do all the talking for you.

Iris Associates (sheffield) have their cards on Plike with a single foil and they look great.

Darren

I want to make a business card on plike also, but i have polychromy in my logo (3 shades of red) and the printing guy that is not going to work on Pearl-Plike-Sheets and i have to do it on White-Plike-Sheets.
But i want to make it on Pearl-Plike-Sheets , what do you think ? it will look ok on Pearl even if i have polychromy?

All the best,
Adi

I have a question for you, and I hope you don’t mind sharing your views – you may reply to my email if you wish. I am a student designer and have recently done some designs for a client friend – including business card design, logo design and stationary. I am perplexed as to how much to charge him. I know I have spent many hours on his work but feel bad about charging him proper prices even though he expects me not to charge him much as I am still a student. But i do want to be paid fairly as I too have bills to pay.

What are your thoughts and how much should I charge him, say for example on one business card design or one logo design.

Many thanks.
:-)

Thanks,

I hope the samples arrive soon, and good luck with your presentation.