Your Assignment:

There are business cards, and there are professional cards. The business card is often a card that states your profession (where you work, how to get a hold of you). The card is seen as an employee’s information of a larger entity. A professional card is more individualistic. The card represents the one person who may or may not be connected with one place of employment.

A professional card is what you’d give at conferences, at functions where you may or may not be seeking employment. The card is a nice reminder of your discussion, your questions, your presentation.

A card, however, is more than a list of information. It’s a quick glimpse, a flash, a moment of your personality. Like research paper that is 2 to 3 pages, you need to make decisions as to what you’ll place on the limited space a card has to offer. Like our early font assignment, your choice of font says more than your name. It says a bit of who you are.

Your task is to design a card that you’re comfortable with, and that says something about you. I’m sure you can design 5 to 8 for all the different slices of your person, but for this class, one card will do. Choose a slice of yourself you wouldn’t mind revising!

Your card must include:

Your First and Last Name (middle name/initial is up to you)
Address (snail)
Email
URL (if you have one)
Title (“M.A. Candidate in La, La, La" "Ph.D. candidate in Applied Linguistics")

1or 2 Graphics. A graphic for this assignment includes an icon, a picture, a box, a line, a circle, anything that isn’t text.

Use Lohr's methods (the C.R.A.P. principles).

Due: Next Monday, October 6th. (You’ll have time to revise this card for your final portfolio). Please bring your cards to class. The card does not need to be on stock paper (heavy card paper). You can print out your card on a regular piece of paper.

Have fun! Buena Suerte!