Is it acceptable to talk to your work colleagues about video games?

no user, you got it.

Graphic Designer here; Bateman's numbers look weird because of the font; the numbers should all be kept to the line where the 212 sits on, but the 5, 3 and 5 all dip below it, giving it a weird look.

Timothy Bryce's font is way too thin, it'd probably be hard to look at if you held it in your hand physically.

David's is also too bold, considering everything else, but it at least attracts your attention to his name.

Paul's only looks good because its consistent, but giving the person's name in bold would do wonders for it.

zoomer plz go

Jesus, how did a nitwit like you get so tasteful?

patrick's card uses the same font as age of empires 2

i bet the top left guy showers with a honey almond body scrub

In reality all these business cards are too boring and wouldn't attract too many people's attention. It's good to keep it simple and not overcrowd things, but those plain black fonts and all that empty white space is not going to catch anybody's eye.

Oh my god it is, I recognize those numbers.

Impressive... Very nice.

>people seriously think Paul's basic ass copperplate is the best one
he deserved to die

t. bateman

>i need rainbows and flashy sparkles to keep me entertained

Bing harder, nintendie.

I know this is loss, but I don't know how.

Graphic Design student here

David > Paul > Tim > Patrick

I hate the change in front size on the last names. Throws the balance of the frame off.

The glaring Pierce &Pierce error on batemans card makes it basically trash.

KEK

Paul Allen, Vice President IS bolded, just look at the address line and the Pierce & Pierce letterhead for comparison.

Just because the bold font doesn't beat you over the head like Davids doesn't mean it's not doing its job.

THEYRE ALL TRASH

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Bryce's card looks like toilet paper and both Bateman and Allen's cards look like they say "Mergers and Aquismons". Van Patten wins, though Allen is the only one who had the right idea of putting the fax number on a separate line from the address instead of squeezing it all into one, thus allowing for a larger typeface. Everyone else's contact info looks fucking microscopic by comparison.

switch controllers have neutral colored buttons though, unlike ps4 and xbone

>Van Patten wins
Never heard such shit taste in my life, van Pattens card looks like cheap paper with shit texture

>"Mergers and Aquismons"
Get your eyes checked.

>shit taste
That's what you get if you lick Bryce's card. Because someone wiped their ass with it.

As soon as you get these assholes a better selection of fonts.

>implying i like Timid Timoth's pussy ass sans-serif font

>basic
That's why it works, the texture in Bryce and Van Patens cards is trying to hard to stand out
The embossing on Batemans is better for that but font wise his card is just a mess to look at
Allens is simple but bold, and shows he's confident that you'll remember the man without needing a gimmicky card to catch the eye

The last Nintendo console I owned was a 64. I'm talking about graphic design, I don't know how you could even jump to this conclusion.

Van Patten's eggshell texture is disgusting. It looks like a piece of cardboard you'd find soiled on a park bench, even though the lettering is clear and striking. Composition-wise, the spacing is good too: the borders are neither too thin nor thick, the edges and corners of the card look like they're being put to use. However, there's a lot of space between the name in the centre and the relatively finely printed telephone number in the top left: it draws attention to the horrible eggshell texture. The company name is printed in small font too, but he did a good job of writing "mergers and aquisitions [sic]" in lower-case (with the first letters capitalised), since that makes it more legible.

Bateman's card has nice lettering - I love the font - and the embossing is a nice touch. However, the top border looks too thick to me: there's a lot of waste space above the number and company name, and it gives an impression like it was cut out by hand with a pair of scissors not 5 minutes ago. Contrast this with his bottom border which is too thin, an impression compounded by the small font of the address. I agree with the criticisms of another youtuber in the comments to a video of this scene who noticed that Bateman's numbers are uneven, for example with the 5's drooping down below the line and giving the card an untidy appearance. Bateman's font is even smaller than Van Patten's so the large uneven numbers in the top left stand out especially. Also I've heard it mentioned that the ampersand between the 2 "pierces" in the company name is closer to the right "pierce", also giving the card a mediocre presentation. Bateman has "Vice president' written in all caps, which gives off a more solid impression. Van Patten's lower-case "Vice President" makes it look like he's Vice President of Ubisoft, maybe, but not a respectable trading firm. However, Bateman's preference for capitalisation produces an undesirable effect with "mergers and aquisitions [sic]", because his small font squeezes the space-hungry capitals together, which sacrifices legibility. Van Patten's card also has the bonus of his name written in bold and tying the card into a coherent ensemble with a central visual point of reference, but perhaps a little too bold: makes it look like it's printed on a Wild West saloon and ruins the air of refinement and sophistication the card was supposed to convey. Bateman's card, which is already lacking in tidiness, suffers from Bateman's aversion to bold lettering.

Bryce's card seems to be free from the compositional and lettering-related weaknesses of Bateman's card and doesn't quite match the textural catastrophe of Van Patten's. The "Pale Nimbus" texture or whatever still isn't a choice I would make: it doesn't stand out that much, but it still looks like the shitty wallpaper in my room. You can even see a few crease-like imperfections on the top edge of the card, and it's just begging for one dirty finger dragging an unpleasant looking grease mark over it. Can't comment definitively on the numbers in the top left and the general compositional value, since Bryce is covering a key portion with his fingers. Once again, I don't like the Vice President written in lower-case, but in this case, the offence is greater because of the poor choice of lettering. Bryce was obviously going for a "simpler and crisper" look, opting for a sans-serif font, mostly lower-case, but it robs the card of all class: that's a lettering choice you'd see on an immigration checkpoint at Bristol harbour maybe, but not on a wall street business card. I wouldn't hesitate to call it plebeian. The embossing is a minor saving grace here. I feel the card would benefit from having his name printed in bold like Van Patten. Overall the card looks like a practice resume written in Arial in MS Word by a high school graduate.

Wait, they're all vice presidents, I never noticed this.

I bet you liked carruthers' card

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Now Paul Allen's card is indeed a work of art. My heart jumped a little when I saw it again after all that dross. First of all, no retarded textures: simple, plain, white ( or "subtle off-white"). The size of the letters is perfect: very easily legible and clear. Notice how the address and contact details are written in two separate lines at the bottom. This allows them to be big enough to make out easily, it allows the address to be intuitively separated from the fax/telex numbers, it avoids the situation of having to squeeze that salad of symbols into a thin pathetic ribbon scratched at the bottom, like the others do. it allows the two lines of information to use up the space at the bottom of the card and prevents the information spilling over into the corners and distracting from the rest of the card. Text is embossed, name and position is in bold, of course, with the name written in larger font, tying the card together. At first I was conflicted about the serif-situation: I stated early that serifs are the source of class, but there was something about his lettering that seemed to defy that. Now I take a closer look and see that he actually does use serifs, but they're so discreet that you almost can't make them out. The resulting effect is phenomenal though: it still looks authoritative, even without the established, lofty vibe of fonts with more classical serifs. If there were one criticism I had to offer, I would say the company name could be written in bolder font with larger serifs, but I fear the card is already balancing on a perfect combination of simplicity and compositional density, and this would overcomplicate it.

I wanted to delete the "Fax" from my business card but my boss said it has to look the same as theirs

Who uses a Fax in 2019

I feel like a retard handing out a business card with a Fax number on it

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Can I ask why it's common for last names to be in all caps on business cards?
Is it just tradition?

How can they all be vice president?

t. neet

I bet you never noticed they all have the same contact information as well

Is it acceptable to suck dicks at work?

Modern companies cannot afford to give you a raise or an office (or even your own cubicle) so they give you titles instead

Everyone has a flashy title now, all the way to the top, with myriads of vice presidents.

Apple has like 14 vice presidents.

I mean that's not strange, it's a business card, so that's the business's contact info.

I feel like they gave Bryce and Van Petten's cards those shitty textures just to make them look worse in comparison to Bateman and Allen's. Who would ever settle on this cheap looking shit?

Not during paid work hours.

Dont worry, I worked in japan 4 months and Ive got faxed at least 120 pages, its a fucking old tradition that needs to die but damn it feels like serious business when you get one

>Apple has like 14 vice presidents.
On both thread and vidya related note I just learned that Jade Raymond is the new Google vice president. How did that ever happened?

user it's a subtle reference to how they are all the same, interchangeable person, and I dont mean literally the same, just in how they act, think, work, etc

We deal with Japanese all the time and they never fax things to us, only emails
That's why I figured if even the Japanese don't use it, I should get it out of my card

But first thing I noticed about the Japanese is how they exchange business cards, they always handle them carefully like it's something precious

For me a business card is only useful until I scan it with my phone, then it's preserved forever.

VP of cloud gaming?

If I had to guess its because in formal business relationships you normally address people by their title and surname. So you wouldn't be asking for Paul, you'd be asking for Mr Allen, VP.

FOUR

If I ever get a business card, black paper, white ink, papyrus font.

fuck me paul allen has a nice card

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Oh my god, it even has a watermark.

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Does anyone know where I can find Paul? I gotta axe him a question.

You forgot to mention that Bateman and Bryce have too much white-space at the top.

It's weird how much normies do this. They pay full price for shit games and chat about them and shit like wtf.

They get this rule to threat it like its a piece of you, like an extension of your persona and thats why you should always handle it with both hands and dont let go till the other person does, also you are being rude if you shove it right away or just dont even read it at all, I almost fuck it up this part because you usually dont read them till you need something from them

Has there ever been a bigger disappointment in movie sequels then American Psycho 2? It has no book to base anything off, and was a hyped up low budget direct-to-dvd movie. Only other thing i can think of was Ghostbusters.

Bateman's:
>nice raised lettering
>questionable font
>matte white looks like shit
Allen's:
>nice font
>nice shade of white
>no raised lettering
Bryce's:
>shitty font
>shitty shade of white with a stupid pattern
>looks like you took a napkin and printed on it
Patten's:
>decent font, bold name makes you look like a douchebag
>shitty color
>more napkin pattern shite
Paul Allen's is the best.

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Why do they all have the same phone number?

shit dude what the fuck
your children will be happy when you'll read them stories before bed

Probably goes to a receptionist that redirects the calls.

Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?

>be anal about your business cards
>don't notice that "acquisitions" is misspelled

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Never talk to distant fellows about video games unless they start first. Never. If they do start though then keep yourself in check, don't reveal your powerlevel and read the situation closely.

Paul Allen's is the best but it suffers the cardinal sin of separating the digits of the phone number with periods. Is this a phone number or an IP address? The rest just separate it with a space which is almost as bad but overall Paul wins.

Wow how did they actually not notice this

>Paul's card with David's phone number style and Bateman's font
This is the patrician choice.

is Yea Forums really talking about business cards?

It's a metaphor you tards.

>black paper, white ink
I shiggy diggy

Not everything is a metaphor you tard