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My New Business Card!
I poked around the links below for ideas. BTW, a couple of these are marginally NSFW.
Part 1: Favorites: Blind date, one-way ticket, debt-recovery agent (yikes!), divorce lawyer & marriage counselor
Part 2: Favorites: The mini designer working at his desk, ones that should involve your writer, the Sandstrom Design ones, the postcard-like one (I wanted to make one and see if it'd work, but the phone #'s are really small!) & the proofreader.
Part 3: Favorites: the geared one, the dentist, Lego & I'm not Chinese
I limited myself to regular paper since I think I hand these out by the hundreds...no mixed media or laser-cut metal. Eventually I came up with what I thought was a cool idea, inspired by these links.
The effect I want is for non-techies to read the important info immediately but geeks will, on 2nd glance, realize the whole thing is in pseudo-JavaScript-code. I carefully 'dimmed' all the text in front that doesn't appear in a typical business card (it prints much lighter than it appears onscreen). I get a laugh from all the engineering and IT people I show it to (“…hands down the coolest business card I've ever seen!”), and non-tech types aren’t overwhelmed.
The code in the front will not actually work but it gets fairly close, including the nearly-English "youNeedHelp" line. In fact, if normal people :) read it slowly, replace 'return' with 'give' and '=' to 'is,' it actually makes sense! The strange capitalization is typical and a form of "CamelCase."
BTW, the different colors on the front of the card are typical of a text editor when editing code. The editor's smart enough to figure out comments, variables, functions, values, etc. and color code them appropriately. Also, everything to the right of a '//' is a comment, so I can put an emoticon ":)" in the code.
The back resembles a large-ish comment block, where everything between a '/*' and '*/' is a comment in several languages, only there's no underlining or font color changes in a comment. The '*'s also form a handy bullet list.
I first tried Java (which I'm studying) instead of JavaScript and ran out of room almost immediately!
My New Business Card!
I poked around the links below for ideas. BTW, a couple of these are marginally NSFW.
Part 1: Favorites: Blind date, one-way ticket, debt-recovery agent (yikes!), divorce lawyer & marriage counselor
Part 2: Favorites: The mini designer working at his desk, ones that should involve your writer, the Sandstrom Design ones, the postcard-like one (I wanted to make one and see if it'd work, but the phone #'s are really small!) & the proofreader.
Part 3: Favorites: the geared one, the dentist, Lego & I'm not Chinese
I limited myself to regular paper since I think I hand these out by the hundreds...no mixed media or laser-cut metal. Eventually I came up with what I thought was a cool idea, inspired by these links.
The effect I want is for non-techies to read the important info immediately but geeks will, on 2nd glance, realize the whole thing is in pseudo-JavaScript-code. I carefully 'dimmed' all the text in front that doesn't appear in a typical business card (it prints much lighter than it appears onscreen). I get a laugh from all the engineering and IT people I show it to (“…hands down the coolest business card I've ever seen!”), and non-tech types aren’t overwhelmed.
The code in the front will not actually work but it gets fairly close, including the nearly-English "youNeedHelp" line. In fact, if normal people :) read it slowly, replace 'return' with 'give' and '=' to 'is,' it actually makes sense! The strange capitalization is typical and a form of "CamelCase."
BTW, the different colors on the front of the card are typical of a text editor when editing code. The editor's smart enough to figure out comments, variables, functions, values, etc. and color code them appropriately. Also, everything to the right of a '//' is a comment, so I can put an emoticon ":)" in the code.
The back resembles a large-ish comment block, where everything between a '/*' and '*/' is a comment in several languages, only there's no underlining or font color changes in a comment. The '*'s also form a handy bullet list.
I first tried Java (which I'm studying) instead of JavaScript and ran out of room almost immediately!