Design Crit: Business cards from American Psycho

In American Psycho, Patrick Bateman sure has some strong feelings about stationery design, but is it founded on reality or fiction? In this video we'll look at the typography, card stock, print embellishments and layout of the business cards of Pierce & Pierce's many Vice Presidents of Mergers & Acquisitions. 0:00 Deconstructing the minute details of stationery design 0:31 Patrick Bateman's card 3:48 David Van Patten's card 5:00 Timothy Bryce's card 6:59 Paul Allen's card 9:30 Analyzing the cards as a set 11:32 The flawed premise (being deliberately pedantic) #AmericanPsycho #Design #BusinessCards --- Sources: The Business Cards of American Psycho by Claire Greene https://hobancards.com/american-psycho-business-cards --- Neenah Paper - The Beauty of Engraving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjeA5lgjCK4 Carlson Craft - The Craft of Thermography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YEU87h-YRA Jonathan Hackett - How to Make a Watermark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLi3_INkioY&t=7s Neenah Paper - The Beauty of Letterpress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtwnbwYBBu0 Panda Sandwich Press https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enfr_43xnTY --- 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb