The GoMedia Arsenal Calling Card Competition!

Cyan Ta'eed |
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| October 17th

Editor’s note: This competition has now closed. Thanks to those that entered

Everyone has a business card, but how many of you have a calling card? In ye olden days, before telephones, text messaging, email, or Skype were invented, if you wanted to talk to someone you just went over to their house. If they weren’t there, you’d leave your calling card so they knew that you’d been by and they could go visit you later.

We here at FreelanceSwitch feel that the calling card is well overdue for a renaissance. Giving a business card to a social acquaintance implies that you are your job – and we think that’s a little one-dimensional.

So, we’re launching a competition in partnership with the lovely gents at Go Media to design your own calling card!

Click to download the EPS version

The two best calling card designs will win a Go Media Vector Arsenal prize pack with every one of their amazing vector packs. That’s almost US$370 worth of royalty free vector art – and well over 1000 complex vector illustrations.

The two best entries will also be profiled on FreelanceSwitch with the biography, logo and photo of the designer, and a description of their business. If you’re after some free publicity then enter this one, as this will be viewed by at least 12,000 people just on the first day and could lead to a lot of solid leads!

So what do you need to do to win these great prizes? Design your calling card using one of the free samples provided by Go Media.
Download here (3.9MB EPS file)

Remember, these cards should express who you are as a person, rather than what you do for a living. We want to see daring, witty and expressive calling cards!

To enter, here are your steps:

Step 1: Download the GoMedia Arsenal vector samples
Step 2: Using one sample or more, design your calling card
Step 3: Show both sides in a 500px by 500px white box (see how we did it below)
Step 4: Upload it to this form by the 17th of November!

To give you an example, here are the calling cards Collis and I designed for ourselves:

As you’ll see I’ve used a vector element and Collis who isn’t so good at following rules used an Arsenal texture (yes they do textures too!). Entrants do need to use vectors, but you can do whatever you want with them – use them in a background pattern, make them the focal point of your design or mess around with them and come up with something new (they are vectors, after all).

If you’d like some inspiration, you can check out Step by Step: Using Vectors at the Go Media blog.

Entries close at midday on the 17th of November (Sydney time) and you can enter more than once if you’d like!

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Named after one of the four quintessential colors of the print medium, Cyan Ta'eed was always going to have a life in visual communication. After studying graphic design and working under some of the best in the industry, Cyan went on to not only art direct but manage her own web and graphic design agency Good Creative. She co-founded FlashDen.net in 2006, and then ran everyone's favourite freelance resource until December 2007, when she handed the reigns to Collis Ta'eed. Cyan is currently working on an exciting new Eden project that she's just itching to announce!

Some of Cyan's most popular articles are:
34 Places to Get Design Inspiration - Online and Off, 60 More Places to Get Design Inspiration - Online and Off, 101 Ideas to Get More Freelance Work and Generate New Client Leads, and The Monster List of Freelancing Job Sites.

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