Business Cards

The first person to contact me and ask me to design something after my business officially opened was Gary Clark.  He asked me to design business cards for him, and since he lives in Japan, he needed a card design that was in English on one side, and Japanese on the other side.  This was definitely different than anything I'd designed before, but I'm so glad I took on the challenge! 

Gary requested that my design reflect the friendship between the USA and Japan, so my idea for the design consisted of the abbreviation USA paired with the Japanese letters for "Japan."

The back followed a similar pattern, but the colors were reversed.

Even though Gary liked the design, there were a few things that needed to be changed for cultural sensitivity reasons.  The colors were made a little less intense by changing the black to blue, a few of the characters needed to be corrected, the logo for Gary's work needed to be incorporated, and the graphics on the left were changed a little bit, too, so that both countries' names are in English on one side, and then in Japanese on the other side.

And the other side of the card...

The second design ended up being just right, and I'm so glad that Gary likes his business card!  It was a great and very educational project for me, and I'm happy I was able to work on it.

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And a quick little postscript - I now have a follwers gadget on my blog!  Scroll down, and you'll see it on the right sidebar.  You can follow me with your Google account if you want.  And I'd really love it if you did, because right now, I only have one follower (hi, Rachel! Thanks for being the first one!).