James Nash business card
James Nash is a guitarist (obviously) who wanted a
card that was different. Actually, his significant other hired me as a present. Wasn't that nice? The thing about a musician is that they are selling themselves (I mean this in a nice way), it's their talent that's
what's important. So I wanted to design a card that was as much about him as possible. Since I work remotely, I wasn't near him to take pictures, so I asked him to have pictures taken of his hands
playing his guitar, in several positions from several angles. He emailed me the photos and I dropped them into Xara. I used Xara's drawing tool to draw around the hand, then I used combine shapes/slice to cut this
shape out of the photo—now with the photo inside it (this is really easy and fast in Xara). I gave this a heavy outline, so it would look more like an illustration, then I made copies of the hand, applied a flat
transparency, and put them in the background to give it the feeling of action. His name and the other script type is set in Cezanne (to which I did some manual editing) from