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Your Business Card is Crap
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..... I hope everybody realizes this is a JOKE. The video is supposed to be funny and sarcastic. Seems like everybody is taking this seriously... 
This isn't satire?
Oh dear! That is the most absurd person and business card (it looks like a child's pop up book) I've ever seen. It must be a joke.
..... I hope everybody realizes this is a JOKE. The video is supposed to be funny and sarcastic. Seems like everybody is taking this seriously...
And after I've redone a pop-up business card for myself
There is a video out there of him spending about 20 minutes explaining how he packs his bag. It's hypnotic.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/shinyobje...rnational-man-of-mystery-mentalist-d-bag.html
And there is one with his daughter, where his is explaining the importance of learning how to do serious damage to others.
http://videogum.com/archives/viral-video/the-business-card-guy-blabbers_064251.html
Really? Even when he starts the video with:
Don't let your business card be your apprehension, your trepidation
If it's real, fair enough. But I was 100% on it being a joke, especially considering where it was posted.
Watch the other videos of his. I've posted links to them right above your post. Watch him go on for 20 minutes about how he packs his bag. Dude is 100% serious and that is just the way he talks.
Is this SERIOUS? This can't be serious. Or he must be a total nutjob.
Anyway, back in the REAL world, he does have a few morsels of useful advice: color is a huge impact, quality paper gives quality impressions, even a touch of die-cut specialization can add something great to a card. The size is just an inconvenient bugger, the die-cut makes it impractical and prone to getting beat-up, the third fold is totally gratuitous, and obviously the pop-up takes it home into "satire" country (I seriously loled when it popped up)... but any one of those ideas, even the tacky cheesy foil, could be OK, in the right application. A few of them make a hot mess, and all of them make a viral internet cewebrity.
I was thinking of doing a square card and/or rounded corners on my next card, and maybe a spot varnish for the actual logo so as to make it more minimal since a non-standard size and rounded corners (and a vibrant color on one side) could be a lot, visually. Or maybe embossing it, though I bet that's expensive.
Anyway, back in the REAL world, he does have a few morsels of useful advice: color is a huge impact, quality paper gives quality impressions, even a touch of die-cut specialization can add something great to a card. The size is just an inconvenient bugger, the die-cut makes it impractical and prone to getting beat-up, the third fold is totally gratuitous, and obviously the pop-up takes it home into "satire" country (I seriously loled when it popped up)... but any one of those ideas, even the tacky cheesy foil, could be OK, in the right application. A few of them make a hot mess, and all of them make a viral internet cewebrity.
I was thinking of doing a square card and/or rounded corners on my next card, and maybe a spot varnish for the actual logo so as to make it more minimal since a non-standard size and rounded corners (and a vibrant color on one side) could be a lot, visually. Or maybe embossing it, though I bet that's expensive.
"It doesn't fit in a Rolodex because it doesn't belong in a Rolodex."
Now that is funny!
Seriously, that is not a business card. That is a brochure. It would end up in my shredder. Especially after that display of arrogance.
Oh, and it was posted on CollegeHumor because someone thought it was funny (which it is!), not because it was created to be funny. The site is similar to YouTube or something.
I saw this thread and I instantly thought of this:
While that is an impressive card, if he gave me one after that little demo I'd only remember two things.
- The guy comes off as an absolute ass.
- His card is pop-up!
Absolutely agree - one of the great business-card-related movie scenes. Or perhaps the only business-card-related movie scene.
I kept waiting for him to say Amway,then back me into a corner with a big spiel of total bollocks.
I dont quite agree, if I were given a business card like that by someone I would hold on to it because it is so cool.