Wings Over the Pyre

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Sword, The - Age of Winters - Winter's Wolves (Squid's Redoubt)

I wasn’t quite done with getting things done, of course. The BSU card was pretty much prototyped, but I need a personal card, right? One with my contact info on it as a primary thing.

So, yeah …

I originally intended to play it a lot straighter, I swear. Simple, black lettering, blocks of blue-grey with some overlapping shading, that sort of thing. I swear that’s the way it was going.

Not exactly the way it turned out.

I did pick up the salmon colour from the squid-body and echo it slightly darker on the text, which pulled the whole thing together nicely. The halo around the text is actually “paper” colour, so it’s a place where there’ll be no ink. I love being able to layer that sort of thing in InDesign … you get some nice interlacing if you want it.

I’m pretty pleased with this design. I’m vaguely tempted to redo the text and make it the official Operation BSU card, except I’d keep getting the two confused in my wallet and that’d be a bad thing. Maybe I’ll just find different squid art for it, or a nice nuclear explosion. I like the way the fonts and space work in this design. Hmmm, maybe strip the red out of the old one and just move the background grey text words over under a nuke sillhouette.