July 2011

In addition to my texting-inspired design, I wanted to submit one more idea to the Minted business card design challenge because there’s a mommy card category and I’m all about moms connecting with one another.

The focus of this Minted challenge is typography so for the mom card I thought it would be cool to use the word “mom” and its (very fitting) inverse “wow” to create a graphic pattern. I used green because it’s a lovely and vibrant neutral (not all moms dig pink, you know?). I also liked that this treatment created two photo windows.

My one question, now looking at it again, is whether I ought to include “Mom of ________” text. I have until the end of the month to revise the design (after which point the voting begins…hint hint!). Visually, I definitely prefer the spareness of the text as shown here, but also know that some moms like to have their kids’ names on their cards. What do you think?

I recently finally upgraded my old phone to a fantastic Droid and one of the notably awesome upgrades is the interface — it’s so user friendly and colorful and now I actually can find my text messages (which were buried 4 clicks deep on my old BlackBerry…never mind that I never got notification when they came in).

Anyway.

I haven’t had time to submit to a Minted design competition in a while, but when I saw the business card design competition announcement, I immediately was struck by the idea of creating a texting-inspired card. It would be fun, geeky, gender-neutral, and ironic.

This is what I came up with. The inspiration is a text conversation and I think the inclusion of an avatar is perfect because I’m a big fan of photos on business cards since I’m so visual.

What do you think? Care to cast a vote in my favor?

Edited to add: Oops, sorry folks! The voting will start shortly after the submission window closes August 1. I’ll keep you posted!