After listening to a few suggestions I have come up with these two designs. I have decided to select the particular image as I can really relate to it. It brings both aspects of my life into the design.
It was a poster that I originally designed to try new techniques within flash such as shading and adjusting the thickness of lines. Not only was i able to produce a good end result but it now enables me to bring my personal life into the card with my love for Motorcycling.
From the initial design I have also adjusted the font. It was originally "Mistral", but after increasing the size of the font it became increasingly harder to read (making it pointless) I wanted to stick with the handwriting style though as I believe it had worked successfully. I managed to find a neat font called "Monotype Corsiva".
New Idea 1:
New Idea 2:
Hi Michael,
ReplyDeleteReally glad to see you have been working hard in your card. Based in the two options above, I recommend you to go for the second one. The reason is that in the first one, you have two elements competing: orange stripe and illustration; this only increases the tension between both and gives the visual sensation of all the composition going "upwards" while leaving a blank in the bottom. This gives the whole design of your card to move up while leaving a "floating" space at the bottom... in a way, and in more simple words, because of the disposition of elements directed to the center and the diagonal position of your illustration, it seems as if you forgot to put another element at the bottom. The second option has more balance and the stripe at the bottom gives weight that is needed at the bottom of your card.
Typo: print them and check they are actually readable. Not only the Mistral is difficult to read, but the use of colour and background can cause you a problem with legibility. Be sure to print them in colour and check they are easy to read. Try first in a black and white version to check only typo type and after that, and once you check the typo works, go for the colour version.