SRS BZNS

[braidedmane]

So, thanks to all of your great stories and suggestions about developing a persona, I've come up with an idea I really like, and am hard at work making it happen.

I made up a "business card" for exchanging emails, etc., at any steam gatherings I might make it to...

Comments

[mmagniloquent]

Serious Business Card: you're doing it rather well!

[kittensandsteam]

I think it looks great!

[lilithschilde]

You're so clever. :-)

[tattooedwilla]

I would want to hire you based on that card alone!

[donsimpson]

Good job of getting the look and feel of vast numbers of old ads I've been looking at. I got some old advertising manuals at a garage sale, though the style persisted well into my early life.

You've got the blocky look that came from the use of blocks of actual lead type, a line cut, and period-looking fonts.

I need to do some more business cards and such, for my character.

[braidedmane]

I love those ads and posters...there is something about them that really just delights me.

Advertising manuals...oooh. Now I want to go start trying to find some.

[donsimpson]

I have:
- Powell's Practical Advertiser - George H. Powell 1905
- The Advertising Handbook - S. Roland Hall 1921 (745 pages)
- The Advertising Handbook - S. Roland Hall 1930 (second edition: 1045 pages)
- Layout in Advertising - W. A. Dwiggins 1928
- The Story of Advertising - James Playsted Wood 1958 (with historical examples)

plus some facsimiles of older work:
- The Victorian Design Book - a combined facsimile of the 1903 Universal Design Book (an architectural detail catalog), and the 1897 Illustrated Official Moulding Book (yes, that's how they spelled it)
- 1800 Woodcuts by Thomas Bewick and his School (late 1700s-early 1800s; a Dover Book)
- The Enschede' Catalog of Typographic Borders and Ornaments (1891, a Dover Book)

and a bunch more Dover books and art history books (including one on Gibson) and other reference stuff.