---
title: "Shades & Staches with Malarkey"
date: 2010-01-14
author: "Phillip Lovelace"
featured_image: "https://pixelflips.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/shades-staches.gif"
categories:
  - name: "Design & Dev"
    url: "/blog/category/design-dev.md"
---

# Shades & Staches with Malarkey

Last week the amazing Andy Clarke put out a call to designers to create a fictitious business card for an upcoming book he is working on entitled “Hardboiled Web Design”. The idea was to create a business card for a fictional detective agency and to be as creative as possible. After a week of submissions and [81 designs being submitted](http://www.flickr.com/groups/hardboiledcard/pool/), Andy has announced his favorite designs!

I thought this would be not only extremely fun, but an awesome opportunity to contribute to the book. The selected designs will be published in the book along with being added to a demonstration website. So I popped open Photoshop with no real idea of what I would do, but after a bit of playing around I came up with a card for the *“Shades & Staches Detective Agency”*.

![Shades & Staches Business Card](https://pixelflips.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/shades-staches.gif)

So, **huge thanks go out to Mr. Clarke** for the opportunity to contribute and for selecting my card to be included! I really enjoyed participating in such a fun idea.

Make sure to check out all the selected card designs and look out for the new book!