I’m Marcus. I’m a software developer. That means I apply a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software.
It encompasses techniques and procedures, often regulated by a software development process, with the purpose of improving the reliability and maintainability of software systems.
The effort is necessitated by the potential complexity of those systems, which may contain millions of lines of code.
You'd never believe I was also an extreme sports enthusiast, right?.
the extreme sports thing is a little weak, i think.
i also have
I’m Mike. I’m a software developer. That means I apply a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software.
It encompasses techniques and procedures, often regulated by a software development process, with the purpose of improving the reliability and maintainability of software systems.
The effort is necessitated by the potential complexity of those systems, which may contain millions of lines of code.
My caffeine requirement is quite high.
mike and caffeine go hand in hand. the last line needs more kick though. and, of course, the rest of the copy needs replacing, as it can't be the same as marcus'.
we'll have 3 cards. we'll give each person to get a card a fictitious job title (related in some way to the person, whether through actual role, or hinting at personality trait, etc).
ok, gimme a font name to use. logo uses helvetica, and i was going to use variants of that. but, there's quite a block of text now, so i'd like to throw a serif into the mix. how about charter? i like palatino, too. come on, gimme some serif complements to helvetica please
the idea was that the reverse of the cards be purposely wordy with a short humorous 'pay off' at the end. marcus' did read "And I watch Star Trek, as if you hadn't guessed" instead of the mountain bike bit. this may have worked slightly better.
the other card is just poking a bit of fun at the amount of legalese that the guy has to deal with.
I like the legal-ese one - particularly as the font size decreases into obscurity. Sounds like the legal department here when I do the trademark and standards manual - oh joys!
and i like the pay off on the mtn bike one, have you tried changing either to itals or color for the last line? i'm sure you have. I think type is a bit big perhaps, but that could be cuz these are larger than life-size when i click on them.
i have a number of letterhead designs (basically, the only difference here is the placement of the logo element). please pick one
i'm considering making both the right and left margins a little wider, so the text area may become narrower. at the moment, the plan is to print the reverse of this with red (with possible inclusion of part of the logo knocked out of the red, creating a kind of watermarked effect when viewed from the front).
i was quite happy with one a few versions ago (i think it was the bottom top left one), but then i got to thinking about the stapling point being where the logo was, and if it's on the lhs you wouldn't see the logo whilst flipping through a file of papers and whatnot. not a great deal to worry about, i don't think.
chris said...i have a number of letterhead designs (basically, the only difference here is the placement of the logo element). please pick one
i'm considering making both the right and left margins a little wider, so the text area may become narrower. at the moment, the plan is to print the reverse of this with red (with possible inclusion of part of the logo knocked out of the red, creating a kind of watermarked effect when viewed from the front).
they are different as they are for different people, ve ;)
there are two designs for two people, and one for another. i'm aiming for not 2 or 3 on these, so there wont be any illustrative elements on them hehe :)
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now, if you can distill that down into a glyph or 3......
Clients like to think you're sweating over something and working all hours to get things done.
oh, wait...
i have this one - the extreme sports thing is a little weak, i think.
i also have mike and caffeine go hand in hand. the last line needs more kick though. and, of course, the rest of the copy needs replacing, as it can't be the same as marcus'.
ok, gimme a font name to use. logo uses helvetica, and i was going to use variants of that. but, there's quite a block of text now, so i'd like to throw a serif into the mix. how about charter? i like palatino, too. come on, gimme some serif complements to helvetica please
i only have a perpetua regular and italic
that "distributable code" is real, and from an MS agreement...
the other card is just poking a bit of fun at the amount of legalese that the guy has to deal with.
I like the legal-ese one - particularly as the font size decreases into obscurity. Sounds like the legal department here when I do the trademark and standards manual - oh joys!
and i like the pay off on the mtn bike one, have you tried changing either to itals or color for the last line? i'm sure you have. I think type is a bit big perhaps, but that could be cuz these are larger than life-size when i click on them.
how many different people/titles you gotta do?
i am seriously considering the 'star trek' payoff line though as it's definitely funnier.
(goudy @ 7pt, for the text, btw - it may drop a little, i haven't even printed this out yet
i'm considering making both the right and left margins a little wider, so the text area may become narrower. at the moment, the plan is to print the reverse of this with red (with possible inclusion of part of the logo knocked out of the red, creating a kind of watermarked effect when viewed from the front).
and those cards again.
/me looks at cards
I dunno.
i like the coffee stain, too. but i think i'd prefer to keep this as a two colour job, tbh.
bottomtop left one), but then i got to thinking about the stapling point being where the logo was, and if it's on the lhs you wouldn't see the logo whilst flipping through a file of papers and whatnot. not a great deal to worry about, i don't think.there are two designs for two people, and one for another. i'm aiming for not 2 or 3 on these, so there wont be any illustrative elements on them hehe :)
It all represents good work though chris!:happy:
now the cards will need changing a bit, innit.