April 21 2009
“Your Business Card is Crap!”
posted by Ana Samways at 8:05 pm… But thankfully the guy dishing the advice spent 25 years designing the most impressive business card ever. His.
(Via Boing Boing. Hat Tip Mr. Perrott).
Spare Room Be our guest…
Edited by Ana Samways & Steven Shaw
April 21st, 2009 at 11:44 pm
He spent 25 years developing it and still forgot to include half of his face?
“It doesn’t fit in a roladex because it doesn’t belong in a roladex”. Yeah but it fits in the bin…
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:14 am
And surely one of the primary functions is to fit in a wallet?
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:19 am
Ah Steven, if a business card like this doesn’t fit in your wallet then…
YOUR WALLET IS CRAP! You need a wallet like mine. I’ve spent 25 years developing this wallet…
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:05 pm
He’s entered the realm of company branded free pens or bottle openers and fridge magnets etc His product is not a businesss card.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:20 am
This is hilarious – imagine living with that guy.
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Wow, thinks a lot of himself doesnt he? “Even if you dont like me, you wont throw this card out” Oh yeah? just watch me, lol.
25 YEARS developing a freakin business card – dude, get a life
April 24th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Americans really are quite different to us aren’t they and what a relief that is
April 24th, 2009 at 8:29 am
Ha ha ha…..what a tool….his card is a childrens pop-up book!!!
April 24th, 2009 at 8:40 am
The scariest thing is that I’m not sure this is a joke. That guy might actually be real…
April 24th, 2009 at 8:42 am
Must be one hell a big crowd that he’s crammed into that wee living room.
April 24th, 2009 at 8:58 am
“Crowds guaranteed”… what, crowds carrying pitchforks and burning torches? Has it taken him 25 years to design the card because he’s always on the run?
April 24th, 2009 at 9:13 am
OH MY GOODNESS I haven’t been living! I need this card! Please someone get me a card like this.
Yeah, right.
April 24th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Hey, I need to contact this guy and suggest a scratch-n-sniff patch for HIS card … then people could smell the bull**** too!
April 24th, 2009 at 11:01 am
25 years developing the card? he’s what? 40… so he started devloping the card when he was 15. “life is not about being liked” bang on the money there buddy! i wounder if the cards can be easily wiped clean?
April 24th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
what a dork
April 24th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Oh dear… Someone ticked every box in the specials column. Die-cut, yes please! Foil, dam straight. Pop ups, pop downs, embosses, flocking, matellics, spots, folds, yes yes YES!
The only thing his card tells me, is that he needs a ridiculous card to look good. If he really was that good he wouldn’t need a card. Referrals anyone?
Best business card i’ve ever come across, was the design company ‘The Wilderness’s’ ‘corporate take over card’. Ask the other party for their card, then promptly apply yours, in sticker form over the top.
Nice
April 24th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
douche bag of the day bahahaha
April 24th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
…er, Linda: It’s nothing to do with him being American… he’s a dick with disproportionately high opinion of himself. Every country’s got them… think Laws, Henry Brewer…
April 24th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
LOL Sara I thing you just wrote the next Tui Billboard advert
April 24th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
OMG, another “arty boy” who worships at the alter of creativity and bugger the usability. What am I supposed to do with his greeting card sized business card? Hang it on the Christmas tree? Nah, I’ll leave it in the fireplace so Santa can crap on it.
April 25th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Wow, look at all the Kiwi knockers!
Cut down the tall poppy syndrome! How about gathering your facts before knocking the guy and the idea. Have any of you knockers actually wondered whether the card does get positive business leads etc? But of course you conformists, followers, employees and non-risk takers couldn’t possibly think anything else!
It is far too easy to sit on the fence and be an also-ran.
I bet you he gets more business than you guys do!
April 25th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Very effective. Absolutely positive he would generate a crowd. Unfortunately he would also lose all your customers and alienate all your prospects. Car wrecks pull crowds too, pretty sure I dont want one.
On the other hand, it could have just been his audition for “American Psycho”. Top marks.
April 26th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Actually on second thoughts he’s probably quite smart. Maybe he’s only ever made the one business card – but put a video of it up on the web. For every 99 of us who knock him maybe there’s one who contacts him. But then how would they do that? YOU CAN’T READ ANYTHING ON HIS CARD.
April 26th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
I like this guy… he distributes free coffee or beer coasters. All you have to do is listen to his arrogant blather first.
April 27th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Ana- thanks for the defense of Americans everywhere. He IS just a dick. Americans do have some weird fascination with business cards and “generating business” because its such a “Gotta get MORE” capitalist society (probably more so than NZ)but still– A BUSINESS CARD>!?! Seriously that’s what you want to spend 25 years designing? Were those WHOLE days, or just weekends spent in the labour intensive, highly creative design process? (And of course, the result, WOW.)
I just cannot get over how incredibly condescending and self-important he is– and how he portrays that what he is talking about is the most important thing. EVER.
Meanwhile, in Mexico….
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ajQ2fE_qHCXE&refer=home
April 27th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
That is a bullshit card. Cards that don’t fit in business card holders end up in small piles on the desk, and later they get chucked out.
It’s a small a probably fairly decent brochure, but it’s not a card.
April 28th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Patrick Bateman’s gonna waste you!!
May 6th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
love it