BUSINESS CARD REMAKE excercise

Mrs. Bensen provided us with an example of a unique business card and gave us the assignment of recreating this business card, and applying our own design. To make the assignment more focused on recreation instead of the design we were only allowed class time to complete this assignment. We were challenged to make our recreation a 2 over 1 design with Black + PMS / Black, with a .125 bleed, a .125 margin at the minimum, and include one vector image.

The first step I took was to find measure our given dummy and then convert the measurements to decimals. Next I applied those measurements to create rectangles on 2 pages in an InDesign file. I also created the same rectangles in an Illustrator File to form the base for the rest of my design. From here I selected my Pantone color and applied it to my the first page on the Illustrator file. The next step was to find the vectors I was planned to use from my Image Bank and copy it into the first page of my Illustrator file, scaling it proportionately to my desired design. Once I placed the 3 vectors into my Illustrator file I rotated them 180* to so they would be placed in the direction I wanted them to be viewed in the final creation of the project. After this I moved to page 2. I created JRB as text and converted it to an outline to make it a graphic and added my name and title.

Next in the sequence of work I placed the Illustrator files into my InDesign rectangles and  created the text that would be joining them. Once the whole file was created in InDesign it was time to package my project in order to send it for grading to the server provided to this class. We were asked to turn in a packaged folder as well as a PDF with marks and bleed marks as well as a PDF without. The PDF without is the one that I was most excited about because I knew it would be viewed exactly as I had planned for it to be viewed!!

This recreation became more of a personal project when I added my own words and graphics to the pages viewed. Creating such a project makes me aware that I can create business cards in the future that provide a more in depth example of my full skills as an advertiser and designer.