{"id":174,"date":"2015-10-07T17:17:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T17:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2015-10-07T17:17:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T17:17:33","slug":"4th-assignment-business-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"4th Assignment &#8211; Business cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we designed business cards for ourselves. I decided early-on that I wanted to do something simple. Since our typography class I have taken a liking to Futura and how my name looks set in it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FullSizeRender-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-175\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FullSizeRender-6-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender 6\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FullSizeRender-6-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FullSizeRender-6-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also checked out Kandinsky&#8217;s book on composition. It was an interesting read, but some of it came off as drawing meaning out of\u00a0thin-air. Mel Brooks comes to mind!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mel Brooks - The Critic (1963)\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PramR5oxn50?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Back to the business card &#8211; I found myself working in circles quite a bit on this one. I decided to use my logo from the previous week, along with icons of light bulbs that I found on thenounproject.com which\u00a0I then modified. The original icons were designed by Eli Ratus (https:\/\/thenounproject.com\/mordarius\/collection\/light-bulb-socket-standards\/)<\/p>\n<p>I tried quite a few different designs!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_1045-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-177\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_1045-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1045 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_1045-2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_1045-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I ended up with inkjet prints on matte presentation paper that I cut out and folded in half.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_1047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-176\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_1047-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1047\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_1047-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_1047-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the finished product for now:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/biz_card3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-179\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/biz_card3-300x300.png\" alt=\"biz_card3\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/biz_card3-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/biz_card3-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/biz_card3-1024x1024.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we designed business cards for ourselves. I decided early-on that I wanted to do something simple. Since our typography class I have taken a liking to Futura and how my name looks set in it. I also checked out Kandinsky&#8217;s book on composition. It was an interesting read, but some of it came &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/?p=174\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">4th Assignment &#8211; Business cards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2015","category-visuallanguage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}