/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>24563664
Unironically Paul Allen’s card

>>24563664
bryce>paul allen>van patten>bateman

Patrick's would be the best if it weren't for that shitty number font. Because of that, Paul Allen's is the best one.

Paul Allen desu

>>24563799
I almost agree, the & symbol has fucked spacing too

>>24563799

Bryce and if you disagree you ll never make it

>>24563664
None of them have consistent typology for Pierce & Pierce, so they all suck

>>24563664
Paul allen

>>24563812
>Pierce &Pierce
fuck you’ve ruined this for me forever

Bryce's would be superior hadn't he used a screen font.
So it's Allen.

Also, why don't they have direct numbers on their business cards...
>is that a raincoat?

>>24563664
They are all nice EXCEPT Bateman's lmao. They were absolutely right to make fun of it

>>24563664
Luis card

Allen>Van Patten>Bryce>Bateman

>>24563664
BRYCE is clearly the most legible.

>>24563664
None. They all spelled acquisition wrong

>>24563664
All of them have "Acquisitions" spelt incorrectly. All of them are trash

Van patten out classed them

>>24563821
This

>>24563664
I personally like Bryce's the most. Mostly because of the type of paper

>>24563914
This. Regardless of who's is best I think we can all agree that Bateman's is objectively the worst.

>>24563785
This

>>24563664
The tasteful thickness of it...

>>24563821
bad card stock choice

>>24563664
Bryce > Van Patten > Paul Allen >>> Bateman

The spacing at the top of Bryce is fucked up and makes it look amatuer. Way to expose your unsophisticated taste everyone who chose that.

I sincerely think Patricks is the best, I think it's supposed to be clearly the best too just to show how blinded by envy Patrick is

>>24563664
It's clearly Bryce, this nigga know how to look classy.

>>24563785
>>24563664
>>24563762
>>24563804

While Allen's is pure visual aesthetics you are missing the point, these kind of cards are supposed to be touched, not just seen, it must feel nice to touch. A slightly porous surface is easier to grip and more stimulating to the touch. Allen didn't even care about this detail

>>24566018
>t. Never touched a matt finish business card
M8 fucking textured paper went out with the fax machine.

>>24566018
Allen's letters are subtley embossed

>>24563664
20 years later and i still smile every time i think of this scene

>>24565668
Oh my god... it even has a watermark...
"Patrick are you ok?"

>>24565820
>I sincerely think Patricks is the best, I think it's supposed to be clearly the best too just to show how blinded by envy Patrick is
no. his is clearly the worst. you didn't get the fucking point. he doesn't have taste because he's *just trying to fit in*

>>24566349
I want. To fit. In.

>>24566441

>>24566441
Nice.

>>24566455
Paul Allen's now worth $2.2 million

>>24566349
I think you missed the point too pal, they're all pretty much the same and the joke is Patrick thinks it's incredible and freaks out.

Paul Allen. It looks more durable.

>>24566455

I don’t get it

Timothy's also good, but the texture might accumulate dust fast.
You have to remember these cards will be together with others in a wallet.

>>24563664
Paul Allen, easy to read, visually pleasing too. Text is nice and clear, bateman the text is very rough looking.

>>24563812
almost like it's intentional...

>>24566674
It's what the portfolios from the meme I replied to would be worth on that certain date. Paul Allen's card says 100% chainlink so someone calculated what it would be worth on the day they made that chart, early 2020

>>24563865
would you say the “thickest” card is the best one?

>>24566732
a fellow architect

>>24563664
Unironically started listening to Huey Lewis and the News lately. Its pretty good music, ngl.

>>24563664
Van Patten and everyone liking Paul Allen's card is completely clueless about whats tasteful

>>24563664
They’re all “vice president” KEK never noticed that detail before.

Also Timothy obviously. The sans serif font is timeless and his paper has the most texture.

>>24563664
Brycefags can stay

Everybody else pls go

I like Bateman

>>24563664
Pauls the best

Bryces design and print is the best, but that over textured toilet paper takes it bellow paul allens

>>24566732
based

>>24563664
David wins because he's the only one who bothered to use both a serif font with textured card. Nevertheless, it's no thing of beauty. The others are just terrible.

>>24563664

Van Patten's

- Legible Font
- Good overall layout and spacing
- Doesnt look cheap
- Cardstock texture looks decent, as opposed to Bryce's "recycled cardboard/paper" texture

The only strikes against Van Patten's card is the fact that his name is bigger than the companies name (a big no-no to some), and the obvious misspelling.

Allen's is the most legible, but it also looks the most cheap, like he made it in Microsoft word himself, and then just printed it out on dollar store cardstock. His card also breaks the rule of his name outshining the company's name.

Bateman's embossment is nice, but the formatting of the card is all over the place. and it also has that cheap printer paper look to it.

Bryce's card is also legible, but the font is cheap looking, and it looks even worse on that ugly cardstock.

>>24563664
Bryce of course

>>24563664
It's not just the card, it's the presentation. A purpose-built spring-action case that only holds a single card at a time. The person you give it to thinks you regard him as important and worthy, enough that you're willing to part with your one and only card. The case opens and the card springs out of it, fully erect at all times, just like you.

Bryce beat them all.

>>24563664
It's Bateman or Allen. Bryce has nice texture, but the font needs improvement.

>>24566652
>they're all pretty much the same and the joke is Patrick thinks it's incredible and freaks out.
they are not and that's not the joke and you are a retard

>>24566652
lmao no. read the book you dumb fucking monkey

>>24563785
This.

>>24563785
this. bryce has the best card.

>>24567451
This.

As an art director, I would say that all of those lack in balance. Batemans has no rhythm in typography.
Van paten's one is hard to read. Bryce's is just shit. Paul's is okay could be better.

>>24563821
It's the worse of them all. No personality. Failed minimalism.

>>24566018
Embossing is really what makes it the best even if I do like the textured party.

>>24566651
>a little two bitcoin for my taste
>two
Ruined an absolutely great concept for a meme.

>>24567350
I too like Van Patten's card. It beats Timothy Bryce's because of the better font.

>>24565820
Your compliment was sufficient Luis.

>>24566455
Kek

>>24563762

This. If the lettering is embossed than it's out of this fucking world.

>>24567350
Anon how do you know this? Do you work in a firm Similar to the characters? I’m serious

>>24569002
Where do I go to order cards like these?

>>24563664
Bateman's font is a little fucked up guys, just like he is haha it's all intentional.
But from afar you can't tell, you need to look closely to figure it out, just like with him.
It's all a metaphor guys it's all intentional lmao!
I'm so deep!

>>24569002
>As an art director
Post degree faggot, otherwise flip the burgers

Bateman's aged best

>>24563664
Paul Allen's is the best, bar none.
>Phone number spacing with ".", don't even look at the vertical alignment on Bateman's.
>Bryce's font looks like fucking Arial.
>Address footer is two lines, emboldening the address of where he works, and not letting the FAX number detract from it.
>Title font size makes it clean and tight with his name.

It's honestly insane the level of quality this movie put in.

>>24563762
>periods between numbers
into the trash it goes

>>24563664
van pattern
bryce is just shit tier

>>24563664
What movie is this?

>>24569539
You can download templates online for free, then find a website to print them.

Or you can ask a pro to design them for you and he'll take care of printing.

The first one is about 200$ for 150 cards.
The second is 500~600 for the same amount.

>>24569866
American Psycho is required viewing for every 4chan participant.

>>24569716
I'm not going to scan my degree anon.

It's still a shit job. People think it's fun but it's just sucking client's dicks and making "meaningful visual choices that helps convey the brands identity" or "help clients better connect with the brands they love".

It has destroyed my soul.

>>24569984
Ordered.

>>24567624
The book was too disgusting for me

>>24569718
I love how well this has aged. Paul Allen obv. bought sub 20c.

>>24569866
Jesus Christ are you twelve?

>>24563664
Van Patten

>>24569866
Checked holy shit how old are you?

>>24563821
>sans serif name

>>24563664
Why do they all have the same phone extension?

>>24567350
>and the obvious misspelling.
where?

>>24567350
Precisely this.

You'd think they'd put together an American Psycho tv series at this point, with how handsome killers are in vogue. I would fangirl if it was made well

>>24569866
American Sneedo

>>24570638
Twitter trannies would throw a huge shitfit about the show focusing only on privileged white male psychopaths

>>24570666

He's a neolib from NYC though. Idk they secretly idolize characters like him I think it would be fine. They'd have to tone down the racism and outright mysoginee though.

>>24563664
Paul Allen's has superior font

>>24570571
Sans serif was more trendy back then. It looks generic now because of Arial-fags but it's better than Paul Allen's Copperplate bullshit

>>24569174
fuck off midwit

Anyone else notice his name is BATeMAN, and then he plays batman? Coincidence? Maybe

>>24570709
You want to go with classy rather than trendy

>>24570819
ever notice how youre a GAY MAN and then you got fucked in the ass?

>>24570819

ok let's go ahead and get this thing started

>>24570881
Duke Checkum

>>24563664
Bryce and Allen are the best, hard to decide between those two. Bateman and Van Patten are distant 3rd/4th

>>24563664
DUBS

Pauls, but all of this is irrelevant as those cards won't be a thing in the post covid world. it's a cringe boomer habit and can die with them.

>>24570955

very nice

>>24570955
1k EOY

>>24570988
Checked

>>24567451
This post is written in the way Bateman speaks.
>>24563664
Anyone who has held a business card knows that the texture of van pattens and bryce's is much more pleasant than the cheap gloss of the other two.

>>24566964
this but I also listen to Whitney Houston.

>>24563664

Bateman's card is thin but sharp font. The man knows what he was talking about with the 'Cillian Braille'. I also like the 'Bone' coloring. It's neat and isn't covered with a tacky texture. Professional, no-nonsense, straight to the point. However, it does have it's drawbacks as a result: it looks quite basic and, like Bateman himself, shallow. 8/10

Van Patten's is dogshit. The lettering looks too bold, on the verge of being too cartoonish. Perhaps worse of all, you can't even see the emphasis on his last name. The texture, from the looks of it, is too rough and comparable to carpet lining or a cement wall. The "Eggshell" coloring looks like cum with light streaks of piss in it. Messy, unpleasant, and forgettable. 4/10

Timothy Bryce suffers from the same faults as Van Patten's bar a few improvements. I appreciate the clean lettering, though it seems a bit too 'new wave' for my taste. Looks more like something out of the 2000s than the 80s. I also dislike the texture, coarse but not to the extent of Van Patten's. At least 'Pale Nimbus' is a clean white. 6/10

Paul Allen's is peak clean. No texture, clean and basic font, normal white. However, it doesn't seem to have any engraving compared to the other cards or at least not to the same extent. I still prefer Bateman's card to Allen's just because of the font but it's a serious contender. 7/10

>>24570819
Patrick Batman

>>24570596

Acquisitions being spelt wrong.

>>24569518

No, thankfully. I probably would have went insane working with types like this. I'm just an English major with a focus on technical writing and editing, along with a bunch of desktop publishing under my belt. It's the only aspect of an English major guaranteed to make any money, but you need to have a penchant and passion for words and formatting and other bullshit. I've got the penchant, but not the passion, and IT was more lucrative out of school. Biggest boons from my major are I can write a solid resume without much effort, am a good editor, and scenes from movies like this trigger my autism.

Back to the scene: Allen's card looks better upon review, but that's because of the low lighting in the room they're in. If Allen's card were under a brighter (and white) light, it wouldn't look as good as it does.

Also one thing that's always bugged me about this scene is Bateman's card is "bone". Bone is a brownish or sometimes orangey white, and is inelegant. He should have gone with ivory, especially using an embossed typeface. I think having used bone instead is a subtle nod to his grim demeanor, and the horribly off-center formatting is a nod to his unstable mind.

>>24570685
>He's a neolib from NYC though.
He’s not though, his little “we gotta save the whales and end world hunger” rap was played to be obviously rehearsed and constructed to make everyone stop asking him questions on morality. I bet in the book it even included some inner monologue or exposition that it was for this

Bryce. Good color, texture, and distinguished.

>>24563664
Bryce's is the most modern

>>24571603

Anon... what do you think rich New York neolib yuppies are? Lmao. I did read the book, that is precisely what he is, a two-faced psycho who defangs criticism by pretending to be an empathetic, charitable person but actually being greedy, crazy, power hungry like any other. That's most limousine liberals.

>>24571596
Disagree on many points, but good write up.

>>24570881
Excellent

>>24570856
Fuck you fucking faggot face filthy Filipino facial fapper faggot, 420 blaze for freedom nigger

>>24571603
Nigga he literally works in corporate finance. He dines at fancy places and doesn't give a fuck about poor people. Literally materialistic as fuck, hires hookers every other night and owns more designer clothing than most celebrities do nowadays. His life is built on materialism, greed and the free market.

He's neolib as fuck.

>>24571626
>Bryce
>that faux recycled felted linen stock
>good texture
Absolutely trash. Bryce probably was part of that Yale crowd. Cocaine, homosexuality, that kind of thing.

>>24566441
>woah, very nice, jut bought 100k

top lol

>>24563664
gotta be Allen. It just looks the most professional all around.

>>24571759
Schizo insults

>>24570596
> Aquisitions

>>24572484
Obviously it's spelled that way on all of the business cards. Clearly a purposeful, stylized spelling. Lots of M&A firms do this.

>>24570739
>I'm mad you noticed a spelling error
Okay.

Bale stated that he based his Bateman on Tom Cruise in an 1993 interview with Letterman, citing "this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes" and once you know this trivia it turns the interview into very interesting extended American Psycho viewing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncuSOStNKmQ

>>24573159
Do actors get coached to behave like that? Why do they seem so inhuman?

>>24566441
>>24566455
Hyper based

>>24563664
All these are terribly typeset. Hoban has actually good versions.
https://hobancards.com/patrick-bateman
https://hobancards.com/improved-paul-allen

>>24573995
Bateman

>>24574026
And Allen

>>24563664
soul
>>24573995
>>24574026
>>24574046
soulless

>>24567624
American Psycho was one of the very rare instances of the movie being superior to the book.

>>24563664
Why do they all have the same telephone number kek. Is that bad continuity or was that just how office phones were back then

>>24563664
Patten. His name is bold, the text is readable and the texture is classic.

Mine.

>>24574046
>>24574026
just gave me the idea to have these made and framed for my wall

>>24563664
David's

>>24563664
Definitely Van Patten
>Paul Allen's looks smudged on thin printer paper
>Bryce's font looks like it was chosen without any thought and has the texture pattern of gas station toilet paper
>Bateman's is getting there, with a good font and even looks embossed
>Van Patten tho, outstanding font, dark ink, and a good texture pattern that doesn't remind you of library printer paper or of wiping your ass
which I Would Do with Timothy Bryce's card

>>24570018
I was going to call larp but this is far too accurate.

>>24570955
Impressive, very nice

>>24564023
Lmao never noticed that
What did they mean by this?

>>24563762
This. Van Patten's and Bryce's visible texture takes away from the centerpiece, being their names. Also the address block being one long line on each but Paul's doesn't mesh well with each other instance of text being 2 lines. It looks very soft and smooth to the touch, whereas everyone else's looks coarse and rough.

>>24566732
>thick cards
>PIERCE and PIERCE
Oh my god.

>>24570955
How'd a nitwit like you get those digits?

>>24573995
The guy who makes these uses an old mechanical letterpress he restored. Pretty soulful.

>>24573400

>why do people whose job is pretending to be others act strange and insincere

>>24574046

this one is kino

>>24574162

I wouldn't call it superior, hate to be that guy but it was pretty different. The book is an interesting read, albeit a little tedious with his crazy thought processes but there's more content to dig into. I wish the movie was a little longer or fleshed out.

The movie is a lot of fun because Bale does a great job with the character, the fact that it's been memed to be larger than life now makes it even better on rewatch

DVP

God damn. Patrick and Paul's cards are extremely high quality.

>font
Van Patten > Bateman > Allen > Bryce
>colour
Allen > Bateman > Van Patten > Bryce
>texture
Van Patten > Bryce > Bateman = Allen
>winner
Van Patten

>>24574876
Because that shit doesn't matter. You don't see them do any actual work, they just fuck around.
They're basically NPCs that can go missing and nobody gives a shit because everyone is the same

>>24563664
Paul Allen's card. The lack of a texture makes it more susceptible to smudges, which begs to treat the card carefully, as a work of art would be. Van Patten's font choice is the best of the four, but the texture leaves it mundane and with a hard, unappealing touch to it. Bryce's font choice is horribly bland, but what Bateman does right in his font choice is destroyed by the disorienting margins that leave the numbers and address slanted to the left more than they should. Patrick's card has basic design flaws, Van Patten's has a bad texture, Bryce has bad typography (look at how forced the slightly thicker "T" looks on Timothy's name), but Paul Allen's retains style.

Let's settle this officially, get in here and vote

https://strawpoll.com/1bbkjy5es

also digits

>>24563664
this was tough
bryce<allen<van patten<bateman