for a software developer. what are your initial and most excellent ideas for me to steal take on board during the design process?

that's funny.

now, if you can distill that down into a glyph or 3......

i wish i was a better copywriter. i'm not sure how well something like this would fly with the guvnors though - we'll see

only clients with no sense of humour.

oh, wait...

I loled

i need some more copywriting...

i have this one -

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'.

i think i just became the Director of Colouring In, btw.

sure thing

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

Goudy Old Style

YES

and charter just looks a bit like palatino, so yeah

perpetua is bootiful though... once you get past its stupid name

love Georgia, favorite widely deployed serif.

no one like them?

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.

sorry missed this!

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?

always good to print stuff out - so many things look different on paper vs on screen.

and those cards again.

I like the coffeh stain... didn't I give you a better line for the mountain bike one? Or was that another card?

I dunno.

top right LH

you know that when you hold it your hand will cover the logo bit, innit.

chris said...you know that when you hold it your hand will cover the logo bit, innit.

what about moving the logo in that format? I like it, its nice and tight

chris said...
and those cards again.

#s 2 or 3 ,for me!

ahhh I see...

It all represents good work though chris!

(they are not really going to go for this one, i bet ya)