topic Re: This card sure is ugly. in SmorgasBoard

This card sure is ugly.

WuXing5 — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 06:00:33 GMT

boy this is just crazy, its like something that came from the trash.

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gingerflower — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 16:45:40 GMT

Looks fine to me...

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Anonymous — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 17:39:18 GMT

That is pretty ugly. They didn't even bother to put the VISA logo on the background of the card.

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Anonymous — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 20:18:07 GMT

That card looks pretty ugly, Its already scratched up and you just got it; Id hate to see it in a few months. They need better matterials

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Anonymous — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 22:36:18 GMT

@WuXing5 wrote:
boy this is just crazy, its like something that came from the trash.

I don't understand how an organization or company can give out a card to its users in such poor condition.

A brown card with a huge, white, box with an un-centered Visa logo on it?

Should've just put "Visa" in white with a blended brown background.If they did that, the card would look decent.

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sarge12 — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 22:48:39 GMT

Those 3 big letters make it attractive to me....NRA

@WuXing5 wrote:
boy this is just crazy, its like something that came from the trash.

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14Fiesta — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 02:32:56 GMT

Whoever decided a PowerPoint Gradient color scheme was a good idea for a credit card needs to be fired immediately and barred from ever creating another monstrosity ever again.

ETA: Probably the same person who was fired at Capital One for designing the old Venture One.

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elim — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 02:56:53 GMT

@14Fiesta wrote:
Whoever decided a PowerPoint Gradient color scheme was a good idea for a credit card needs to be fired immediately and barred from ever creating another monstrosity ever again.

ETA: Probably the same person who was fired at Capital One for designing the old Venture One.

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Anonymous — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:32:44 GMT

@14Fiesta wrote:
Whoever decided a PowerPoint Gradient color scheme was a good idea for a credit card needs to be fired immediately and barred from ever creating another monstrosity ever again.

ETA: Probably the same person who was fired at Capital One for designing the old Venture One.

The old Venture One posted looks 5x better than this NRA card.

The ugliest card I can think of is AmeriCU Credit Union's debit cards. What kind of a debit card has a flat group of bubble numbers on the front? Let's see if I can find the image. Plus the stickers they put on them for 'activation' never want to come off; thus, there was scratches all over it from day one, and the cards aren't even EMV ready yet.

This is a picture of their credit card, so it has the EMV chip, but just remove the EMV chip and this is literally what their debit card looks like.

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Glkslngr — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:39:21 GMT

It does look like trash.. I would be embarrassed to ever whip that thing out.

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TURNERHOOVER — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 13:25:42 GMT

Delta Skymiles and CapOne QS1 are both also pretty ugly IMO.

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Anonymous — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:35:27 GMT

@14Fiesta wrote:
Whoever decided a PowerPoint Gradient color scheme was a good idea for a credit card needs to be fired immediately and barred from ever creating another monstrosity ever again.

ETA: Probably the same person who was fired at Capital One for designing the old Venture One.

Like many things in life, whether you are doing a speaking engagement or writing a document for a CEO, know your audience. The NRA are more often comprised of "A to B" type of people and will gladly swipe that card in the name of supporting the NRA regardless of looks.

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Anonymous — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 17:12:54 GMT

I think that's a fair assessment MissingCalifornia.

I also imagine there is a decent number of people who would think that card looks ugly regardless of how it looks.

In all seriousness though, it's not difficult to come up with an esthetically pleasing design. They totally missed the mark on that one...no pun intended.

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Anonymous — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 23:35:20 GMT

Dang that's fugly

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Anonymous — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 13:55:42 GMT

Sure fits the reputation of the NRA, eh?
(I'm joking, don't start a flame war)

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UncleB — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 22:05:32 GMT

I think the ugliest card I've personally seen is the old design of USAA's debit card:

Thankfully the new design is much better (solid blue).

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SunriseEarth — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 00:04:09 GMT

As a reminder, the thread topic concerns the aesthetics of a cobranded card. Specific discussions regarding ideology are beyond the scope of the Forums.

Five Things We Don't Talk About

Thank you for having a respectful discussion!

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grillandwinemaster — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 03:08:34 GMT

@elim wrote:
@14Fiesta wrote:
Whoever decided a PowerPoint Gradient color scheme was a good idea for a credit card needs to be fired immediately and barred from ever creating another monstrosity ever again.

ETA: Probably the same person who was fired at Capital One for designing the old Venture One.

The person that designed this NRA visa should be shot! No pun intended...

It looks like one of those cheap card board promo cards you receive in the mail that get immediately tossed out.

I didn't mind the look of the Cap1 Venture card.

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joltdude — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:57:10 GMT

Ugly cards.. Both my CU cards ... Both debit and credit cards for Hanscom FCU (with EMV).. the original cards looked rather nice with a photo and logo. Now the ATM card is green with a slight gradient and a poorly sized logo in white and worse yet, is the credit card, GREY with a poor embossing of the logo... Both their original Debit and Credit cards actually looked nice... These look like they were just picked out of Elan's catalog.. Also MIT cards (NO EMV) were reissued without the photographs on them, but it looks like they hired a graphic artist at least to stylize their card.. Still butt ugly compared to their photo cards with a picture of the dome, and a burgendy/maroon background

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Discover2016 — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 22:06:33 GMT

I think the ugliest card in circulation is the Primor card