The Challenge

To design a sleek business card that felt both stylish and metal-oriented.

What I Did

I have been designing and printing cards for Professional Car Audio for many years now. They’re a solid shop with a solid reputation and routinely produce, outstanding, quality and, most-importantly, original audio designs for cars, trucks or… whatever the fuck you throw at them, really.

The cards we’ve designed together have danced in tone and design from graffiti-based, to “techie”, to simple 2 or 3 color designs but we’ve always retained the same blue / grayscale / black color palette for the most part. With this card, we decided that something that emulates the accents and colors of professional mobile audio gear (such as speakers, drivers & amplifiers) and this is what we came up with. Something that felt like it could have been complimented a Memphis Audio amplifier or a Kicker speaker driver.

Original run was printed 4-over-4 on suede-coated 16pt. card stock with a 50-micron raised spot UV coating on the front logo side. The second run was printed with the same specs, sans raised spot UV coating with rounded corners.

Client

Professional Car Audio

Tulare & Porterville, CA