Ben Nielsen

Business Card Design in Affinity Publisher

<p>Hello Marc! Thanks for sharing your your project with us! Would you like any feedback?</p>

Yeah, if possible, this would be great, it would be my first professional scrutiny of one of my first creations.

Awesome. Well first off great work for your first time, remember that design is an iterative discipline so we should expect to make many different versions of any design. 
The first thing I am noticing is the lack of repetition in your icons, you want all your icons to match in style, for example you don't want one to be a circle icon and the rest not to be circle icons, you don't want some to be in color and some to be in black and white, you want them all to match. 
The next thing I would say is that it feels a bit cramped at the bottom, the business name is taking up a lot of room at the top and everything else is pretty tight below. Can you do the business name on one or two lines instead of two?
Do you need all of these contact methods? I would try to narrow it down to just the few you really want someone to use. If they need to go to your website to book you and your website has links to your social media then you probably don't need the social links. But if you what you really want is for them to see your images and they can get to your website through instagram than you probably want to put the focus on instagram. 
I also notice that your name and your position seem to run together, this has to do with a lack of contrast and separation between them. You might fix this by putting them on two lines, or making the position a thinner font, or placing a dot between them. Just try to give them a sense of separation and contrast.
Good work. Hope that helps, and feel free to upload a new version in the body of the project if you want.

Hi Ben, thank you for your comments and tips, on my way to dive into the matter, i will send you the outcome.

Hi Marc, great new iteration. There is a lot of improvement here and I especially like how you have simplified what you have on the card and introduced hierarchy to your text. 
It may just be the way it is displaying, but your icons look a little stretched out. Remember to try and match icons so they are the same style, so if you have an envelope in a circle for email you will want to also have a phone in a circle for you phone number. 

This isn't a logo class, but I just thought I would mention that the logo is a little busy, I have a class on logo design that you might want to check out on my profile page. 

Keep up the great work!

<p><img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/fa6f5e5f3915dfaf61fa2f9feb6b3e9c/f2d2fafb.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/fa6f5e5f3915dfaf61fa2f9feb6b3e9c/f2d2fafb.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/fa6f5e5f3915dfaf61fa2f9feb6b3e9c/f2d2fafb.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Business Card for DMD - image 1 - student project">Simple BC for a start-up project in commercial photography. </p>

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