I recently came across a few old business cards I designed back in 1999. The first ones were for my services as a saxophone player:

A few notes:

• I went mostly by “Matthew” then.
• At some point I decided to remove the home address and say that I was available to play not just alto saxophone but baritone, tenor, and soprano as well.
• The number was the home shared house number, not a cell phone.
• The email was an email address the entire family shared, under my dad’s name.
• HAL-PC was an amazing non-profit local to Houston that stood for the “Houston Area League of PC users.” There was a pretty reasonable annual membership fee, and they hosted a monthly general meeting which had hundreds of attendees, always with a presentation or two and a raffle giveaway at the end. They were a dial-up ISP and BBS/newsgroup host. I volunteered for them by going in on Saturdays where they had a room people could bring their broken computers to and get free tech support, and by hosting a SIG, or special-interest group, around PalmOS called HPUG, the Houston Palm Users Group. This was a big part of the inspiration for WordCamps.

This was for my “design” business:

I would also design business cards for friends, here’s one for my friend who was a percussionist and vibraphonist, Chase Jordan: