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 --- Neenah Paper - The Beauty of Engraving Carlson Craft - The Craft of Thermography Jo