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Rakers Ontwerpt business cards

Pim — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:49:16 +0000

Well, folowing the business cards of Kristine earlier this week it is now time for my own cards. I wrote a post about the production a while ago and maybe it’s just me, but designing and producing your own business cards is really satisfying. The wordmark has been set using a medium bold Helvetica (24 and 18 pts) and the information beneath it was set using a Bookman Old Style 10 on 12 pts. I have to be honest… The cards were long finished, but I haven’t had the time to take some decent pictures of them. Untill I shot Kristine’s that is! Go click below and enjoy.

Mirror, mirror on the wall…

Pim — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:30:00 +0000

Just finished a very small and quick assignment for a relative. People who just graduated (or maybe also years after) will recognise the situation where a family member asks you to ‘design a pretty *fill in what you do best*’. The few times I did that before taught me to stay away from situations like this, but this one needed to be done… The relative has her own beauty salon with pedicure at home. Here business had two different fonts, 4 different font styles and the complete colour spectrum was present. It was literally screaming for a redesign. And so I did. Just click on the image below to see more.

Because she is just running a small business the number of prints was also very low. Because of that I decided to try out an online business card printer called Moocards. I must say that they did a really nice job. You can either upload your own designs (like I did) or use some standard templates. The fonts are not really complete as I heard they use some faux bold for their bold typefaces. Too bad, but as long as you used your own designs there is nothing wrong with it!

Rakers Ontwerpt identity

Pim — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:35:49 +0000

This new website found it’s origin in the businesscards I made lately. They are still waiting to be trimmed, but all the pressing and setting has been done. It was a ton of fun to produce my own cards all by hand. Every letter was set by hand and the wordmark was set, printed, spaced and printed again untill it was perfect.

After a full day’s work in the typefoundry at the ArtEZ Academy of Art and Design in Zwolle I had my letters all set! I find it really satisfactioning to work like this. It takes a lot of time, but it is so worth it. The wordmark has been set using a medium bold Helvetica (24 and 18 pts) and the information beneath it was set using a Bookman Old Style 10 on 12 pts.

The week after I made some try-outs with different ornaments that were added (or not) and choose my paper. We (I wasn’t allowed to opperate that huge papercutter on my own) cut the pieces of paper roughly to size and the print matter was prepared for the press. The press (a Hohner Rapid II) was prepared and the fun could begin, but due to some laws and regulations I also wasn’t allowed to opperate the press. Which isn’t a bad thing because the machine could easily chop of your hand and just keep going…

After we finished the first batch on some simple off-white sturdy 300 grs. paper we tried something else. A more cardboardbox-brown paper. Also a lot thinner then the white version, but it has a nice effect. The slick font of the wordmark really contrasts nice with the brown paper.

And like I said, everything is printed, but just needs to be trimmed. When everything is finished these little work of arts (if I may say so) will be added to the Graphic cathegory. You can be sure of that.