Thanks a lot to both of you for the feedback!
@Jenna -
Thanks a lot for the feedback!
You can't make out from this preview image, but I've set the CMYK values so that the icons in the BG will be quite faint, as faint as the grey on white, while the center 5 will be a bright color. I still have to test this out with some test prints. The effect that I was going for looks fine with proof colors turned on, but it didn't translate well to RGB...
@Rockhart -
There is quite enough substance to it without making it busy I think. :P The images stand for (in order - left to right) -- logo design, corporate documents, publication design, web design and photography. This is just an added bonus if one can understand it, because it gives them an idea of what I do, but even if you can't, I've clearly mentioned that I'm a graphic designer on the back. The purpose of the icons is, for example, maybe you're looking to get a book designed and then you see the book icon on the card and read that I'm a graphic designer, you'll know that I can probably design books.
In that case, it doesn't matter whether you understand the other 4 icons at all.
The yellow boxes are
supposed to look like marker highlights. In fact that's the them of the whole card - hand made design. Do you see it? Hand drawn sketchy icons, out of alignment and skewed highlights... except for the logo and text, everything else is supposed to look hand made.
What are your thoughts after the explanation?