My Business Card!

 

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                        My business card I really enjoyed making, I enjoyed being able to customize my card to my interests. Though I wanted to be more simplistic with how I made this one. My usual artist business card is very complex and is definitely made as an eye grabber. Also I wanted to be a bit more different compared to the typical Japanese business cards that I’ve seen online or in our book. Japanese business cards usually have a very minimalistic feel to them, which shows professionalism. I noticed that a lot of past students in the examples chose to do the same idea of making it truly theirs. I noticed a lot of them did choose to show their art. I think a lot of them were done nicely, and I don’t think I would have been able to do the same as them. 

                         The corporate look of most business cards I feel are due to how professionalism is seen in the Japanese work world. A lot of them have a plain white background or being off white colored. The font is usually plain, formal, and easy to read. They may even cherish their family name by writing it bigger or fancier than other words on their card. From how I’ve seen it, the business card has to look nice because that’s how they’re presenting themselves to others. With their main greeting being bowing with their card out handing to them. It’d be a disaster if you handed someone your business card and it was a complex design that showed a bad side of you. 

                          When watching videos of Japanese professional introductions, it makes me so amazed that’s normal. It’s so organized and everyone has their time to speak and present their card. In America we have business cards but they’re definitely not treated as highly or nice as they’re in Japan. Especially how you won’t shove their business card down your pocket in their presence or damage it. In the American professional world you do introduce yourself better than what you would if you’re saying hi to a best friend. Though a professional American greeting doesn’t go near to the formality as Japan’s formality greetings. There may be respect shown just with the intent of how we place our words, but it’s a lot more informal compared with the Japanese system.