**Project Overview**

Alright, so i know this is not a particularly small project, so if you are time poor and don't have time to really get into it, i hope you do. But there'll be some of you that might be daunted by this one. Just copy mine and change the text to your text. Put in the icons from earlier in the course. Okay? Uh, there's the phone and there's that one. So we've done those ones, right? Um, this one here, i just typed the at symbol on my keyboard, made it the right size, made it kind of bold. Add the logo that we did earlier and that's kind of it. Put something on the back. Um, it can be just the drawing that you did. It can be the creature, it can be the monogram. It's kind of up to you. I've gone, i've tried to add off a bunch of different things. Um, just to give you for instance, kind of probably got too much in there. But i want you to use your brand colors and your logo that you've made. Let's have a look at the actual requirements. Okay?

**Business Card Design**

So, uh, business card. Use your local sizing. So figure out what is the default business card size in your country or region. Okay? And if you are gonna design the business card, create yourself a mood board. Go through and do what i did and did uh, business cards in dribble in be hunts. I typed in cool business card designs into google and followed a few of the links. Took a few screenshots and just threw them on the, remember the mood board we made earlier on? I just threw them all on. I was like, that's cool. Ooh, that's cool. Oh that's cool as well. And then you find out once you've got all your details in that none of them actually work. But it's a good place to get started. Okay.

**Project Overview**

And then i went back through a bunch of the projects that i made and just copied and pasted bits out. Let's have a look at the class project. So, uh, create a front and a back. Okay?

**Business Card Design**

So it's gonna be a two-sided business card. These are the main ones. Okay? Just make sure the name, phone and email address and physical addresses on there. Just practice laying out type, adding your little symbols. You'll notice i changed my brain colors. I'm not particularly worried like as we develop through this course, our knowledge of color's getting better. So you can go and change it totally up to you. Or just follow what you've been doing up until now. Just pick anything. This isn't really a design course, it's more of a illustrator course, but it's great to get these things kind of implemented so that we get to practice our design skills. These, the optional things. Remember that circle badge we made? I put mine on mine, okay, that's that thing. Took me ages to recolor it 'cause i had to ungroup a bunch of stuff and figure it out with the um, direct selection tool. So if you find that hard, it is hard got there in the end. Uh, optional as a gradient, you might not be a fan of gradients. I put one kind of down the bottom here. So what i did is i made a gradient box and then put that on top. And that's exactly what we did here in this. Okay? I just made uh, a kind of, what did i do? I kind of just released this one 'cause i liked the look of it and then made a box that was the same size as this one down here so i could crop it out instead of the square that we used here. All right, what else did i do? Okay, i didn't use the monogram. It felt like i had so much going on. I ended up using the pencil drawing that we did way early on. But i added a brushstroke to it to fancy it up. I used the paper cut. Uh, the creature you could use on the back or on the front, i don't mind. And you might use an image. The image, i kind of found one from unsplash. Um, i typed in spices, found that one. I cropped it with our sweet cropping skills. And remember early on we looked at transparency. I kind of just darkened it down so i could put type over the top, kind of make it more moody. There you go. Um, just make sure the details are functional. Don't put your actual address in phone number on there. You can of course, but i wouldn't. Um, yeah and use the icons that you've made throughout the course. If you don't have any of the icons, maybe you skip that one. You can go and find just a icon set. If you type in free icons, business cards or you know, free icon, email free icon address, you'll find a set that matches. I'm okay with that as well. And on the back, basically it's all optional. What you wanna do on the bag there, do something. Okay. I originally was gonna have the logo and then i decided i like the logo on the front. And so just mess around with what goes in the back. Add some sort of details. I went with website and youtube. Okay? But you might go instagram and tiktok or linkedin or whatever you feel most appropriate for the brand if you are running into problems with colors, okay? Get to this stage and then make sure you duplicate it and then use regenerative color, right? Remember use the uh art board tool. Okay? I'm gonna click this one and this one. So i got two of them. I can use copy paste and go on a weird spot. I'm gonna just use my hold down option, uh, or alt on a pc to make a duplicate. And then i'm gonna use regen color for this. It's maybe the text you don't want recolored so you can deselect that or just kind of experiment with it. See how recolor does for me? I don't have that many colors so i might just experiment them with adobe color. Okay? And just use the eyedropper tool and just mess around with color. There you go.

**Submission and Feedback**

Deliverables. I want a screenshot of the front and back combo because now we're using outboards. It's a little bit trickier to export jpegs because it'll do one and the other. Really, i just want your kind of like front back. So remember on a mac command shift four and print screen normally works on a pc but you have to check for your version, okay? And send us that. And the other thing is, is that if you're doing duplicates and say you do different layouts, okay? 'cause you've got some time and you experiment with different layouts, make sure you duplicate it first using the aboard tool and then send us a couple of versions. You know, if you are looking for feedback, okay, from the community, make sure you number them okay before doing a screenshot and have like the three versions. My advice is don't share 15 versions, just share no more than three. Otherwise it gets a bit daunting as a reviewer to go, oh, there's so many options. So many very similar changes. So just distinctive changes and have no more than three, maybe just one. Okay, front back, maybe there's two, maybe there's three, but don't do 16. And just make sure you number them as well in a big old screenshot of all of them together. I don't mind if it's just the singles or all of them together and upload it to the assignment section, okay? And upload it to social media.

**Business Card Design**

Again, maybe this is a kind of a technical exploration rather than like, am i a good business card designer? We haven't learned those skills, we just kind of built elements. So don't worry, some of you will have loads of design skill and for most of you though, this will be the first ever business card you've ever made. So maybe say that in your post if you are feeling nervous about sharing your design work. My very first business card, what do you guys think? And like always, if you are going to post, make sure that you comment on somebody else's practice your creative criticism and be less, uh, that's not good. And more, what i think you should try next is that comes across a lot nicer. Alright, that's enough. It is business time, business kind of time. Okay, joke.