Looking for personal bizcard feedback

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Threw this together at moo.com this evening; it's a concept for a personal bizcard, something I can use when I want to represent myself outside of Appleseed or Volity contexts. Looking for feedback on the image and the text content; I'm aware the text itself is too plain and the image is wobbly lookin in this preview. (Blame moo's layout thingy - it was useful enough for this mockup.)



It's playing on the "three personal tags" idea that I first picked up at BarCamp in April. I've settled on these three as a good summary of my primary interests and activities at present, even though I'm not solid on the wording. Currently choosing "Game Studies" over "Ludology" and "Homebrew Television" over "DIY Television".

Thoughts?

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

depends on your audience, I'd guess, but when I see what looks like a poker hand, I think "gambling" and maybe even "bluffing" which would be a poor image for someone who wanted to hire you for software, but might be fine for other networking possibilities.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

That's what I would say too. I immediately thought "poker" which has totally different connotations, culturally and aesthetically, from the kinds of games I associate with you or with the field in general. I actually really like the photo overall, but could you make it Icehouse pieces or something? :-} Then the programming book would show up better as well.

Secondly, but perhaps on a similar note: "Homebrew Television" sounds a lot more like actual literal television about home brewing (another perfectly plausible geek hobby). "DIY Television" is at least less ambiguous.

However, I definitely think "Game Studies" is preferably to "Ludology", which is not yet a mainstream enough term to make sense to the average person (okay, maybe the average person *you're* handing out cards to, but still). If someone doesn't know what it is, it's just going to look, well, ludicrous.