How to make a Business Card part 2

Alright now picking up where we left off at, I just showed you how to create the back part of the business card. The reason why I decided to start with the back part first was because it is always the easiest side to work with since there isn't as much content as on the front. Usually on the front that's where you have things like the the logo, person's name, position, address, phone number, email, website, social media links(if any), and so on. Normally, there are not that many steps on the back and just to keep it real, some people's business cards only have the logo on it. All they have to do is place the logo on the card and that's it.

Step 1

Open up the business card with the chef hat logo on it and select the chef hat. Click and while holding shift, drag one of the six corner points of the logo(looks like a white square with a blue out line) from one side to the next and you should see the logo get smaller without messing up its proportions.  

If done correctly, your logo should look something like this.

Step 2

Now is time for the content. Select the type tool and create a text box to the right of the logo. We still will be using Century Gothic font so go ahead and switch the default to that if you need to. I went ahead and listed the content sizes and styles.

Content Information

Name-Century Gothic bold, 10 pt.

Position/Title-Century Gothic Italian 9 pt.

Rest of content-Century Gothic Regular 8pt.

Step 3

There you go! You finally made a business card. Now go out there and make some more!

How to make a Business Card part 1

In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to create a business card.

Things you will need
Adobe Illustrator
Century Gothic font
Chef hat vector


Step 1

Open up a new Illustrator file and for this tutorial, we will be using a new cmyk file. Change the units to inches, width to 3.5 in., and height to 2 in.

You should see something like this if you did it right. Go ahead and save it as businesscard.ai. or a name that you will remember it by. Also, save it to a place where you can find it easily.

Step 2

Go to File>Open, and find the Cafe, Restaurant icons, Symbol File( it should say cafe_icons.ai) and select it. Once you open it select the hat shown above.

Step 3

Copy and paste the hat to your businesscard.ai file or whatever you named your first file as.

Compound Path

Now there is something that you should know about the hat. It is actually formed from a compound path. A compound path is an option that lets you use an object to cut a hole in another object

For the next step, we want to remove the first compound path, which looks like a black outline around the hat.

Step 4

Double click on the hat to enter isolation mode(this allows you to select and change different grouped objects in the compound path). Click once on the black outline. It doesn’t matter where as long as you click on it.

Push delete or backspace and you should be left with a black silhouette of the chef hat. The other two objects will still be grouped and that's what we want. Double-click in any area outside of the hat to exit out of isolation mode.

Step 5

Move the hat over to the left and then get your type tool and type the word Chef. Open up your character panel by pushing Ctrl+T(PC), or Command+T(Mac). Switch the default font to Century Gothic. Change the style to bold. Put the kerning on optical. Set the font size to 60.

Step 6

Go to type>create outlines(you should see blue points all around each of the letters)

Click and drag your mouse and select both the hat and the letters(blue points on the hat and letters just like the image above). 

Step 7

Next go to window>pathfinder Shift+Ctrl+F9(PC) ⇧⌘F9(mac). Then go to shape modes>Unite (the c and the chef hat should be combined now like the image above)

Step 8

Double click in the logo to get in the isolation mode and select the c and chef hat and go to swatches and choose the 3rd one the far right side on the top row. 

Step 9

Bam!!! Now you have the backside of your business card. On the next part, we will be making the front with all the contact information and stuff on it. Catch you later!

Detail, detail..late night flashbacks

Tonight, I was just thinking about how life was for me as an artist when I was younger. I loved art when I was younger and for some reason was fascinated by small things and objects with lots of detail on them.





Whenever I went to the doctor, there would always be magazines and games in the waiting room and I just remember, they would always keep "Highlights for Kids" in there. The magazine had different arts and crafts, and games for kids to try out and my favorite part was at the end! I know that sounds bad, but it wasn't! At the end, there would be a hidden pictures page and that right there blew my mind away every time..The artist would always carefully draw an object or image and turn a section of it into something totally different! The image right above is actually one of the hidden pictures pages from the magazine that I remember looking at years ago. I bet you can't guess what's in it haha! I'll give you a hint, look at how he's walking..As soon as I got back in the patients room, I would always stare at the paintings on the walls to try to figure out what kind of designs were in them and all the small details composed in them as well. They weren't as awesome as the magazines since they always had the same paintings, but hey it was always better than looking at a blank wall.





For those of you who don't know, this right here is the king of hidden images, "Where's Waldo". Your mission was to find Waldo who was always wearing a matching red and white striped sweater and cap, glasses, and blue jeans. You would think it would be obvious, but it wasn't. It would take me forever to finish these books just because of the fact that there was so much small detail on the page. The torture and eye-strain was horrible, but I couldn't resist...I just had to find Waldo haha!



I loved to draw cartoon characters too. This book, "Disney's Learn to Draw Uncle Scrooge, Huey, Dewey, and Louie" was one of my first drawing books and that had to have been well over 15 years ago haha. I used to practice with these "how to draw" books and get them from the library all the time. These things helped mold me into the designer that I am today and I don't regret any of it. Try to remember all the things that influenced you to be a designer and hold on to those memories. Peace and God Bless.