Now that I’m pretty settled on the design, it’s time to prepare the file for printing. Over the years I’ve picked up a few tips about making sure things come out OK. First…don’t trust your monitor or your printer when it comes to color, unless you’ve calibrated it. I haven’t calibrated my monitors, so I [...]
After taking a weekend break from the last round of personal business card design, I headed to Starbucks to see if I could finally get the design resolved. To recap, here’s round 1 and round 2: And here’s round 3: H: This is the combination of the round 2 feedback, fixing the bottom text address [...]
I’m working with my friend Al Briggs on an iPad version of the Emergent Task Planner, primarily on user interface concepts and layout. Al’s doing the coding. As is the case with these kind of projects, programmer Al is excited to see graphics, as designer Dave is excited to see working code. Al suggest that [...]
A couple days ago I started working on new business cards, doing a bit of on-the-fly thinking to come up with an idea. Now, it’s time to do some refinement. Here’s the image from Round 1: Here are the new Round 2 tweaks, based on feedback from readers both on the site and on Facebook. [...]
After getting my iPad, I installed Square Register so I could accept sales by credit card in-person. It also has a cool “Favorites” display, so you can just tap the things you are selling, and they’re added up right on the screen before you swipe the card. There are two kinds of sales I’m making: [...]
