Diamond Card Design
Mar 16, 2010, 4:23 pm
#1
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Diamond Card Design
Does anyone feel that the design and colors of the Diamond card look a little crappy and not worthy of its status as the highest Medallion level? It looks similar to what would be expected of a standard issue frequent flyer membership card. I was hoping for some sort of black or equally impressive and enigmatic theme. Slightly disappointed...
Mar 16, 2010, 4:26 pm
#2
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Mar 16, 2010, 4:28 pm
#3
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Last edited by DLFlyer16; May 5, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Mar 16, 2010, 4:41 pm
#4
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Atlanta
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Agreed...I hate the DM card (and all the other cards). Nothing says "HVC" about it. Whoever the desgin team was on that should be fired.
Mar 16, 2010, 5:00 pm
#5
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: NC
Programs: Delta Diamond/3MM; Hyatt Globalist; Hilton Diamond; Hertz PC
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Lame. Very, very lame.
Mar 16, 2010, 5:06 pm
#6
Join Date: May 2006
Location: NYC
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Who cares what the card looks like? I want to feel like DM status is worth something. So far, I'm sad to say, I'm not impressed.
Mar 16, 2010, 5:07 pm
#7
Join Date: Dec 2009
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Delta cards
Does anyone feel that the design and colors of the Diamond card look a little crappy and not worthy of its status as the highest Medallion level? It looks similar to what would be expected of a standard issue frequent flyer membership card. I was hoping for some sort of black or equally impressive and enigmatic theme. Slightly disappointed...
DM card colors !, BUT the new brown silver Sky club card is good, its very close to the new marriott PT card in color.
Mar 16, 2010, 5:14 pm
#8
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Location: LAX/BOS/HKG/AMS/SFO...hmm, I need a life.
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Pretty much everyone...
Mar 16, 2010, 5:19 pm
#9
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: MSP (after 21 years in SEA)
Programs: DL DM/3MM, Lifetime DL SkyClub, BA Gold, Amex Centurion, AVIS Chairman's, Hertz Platinum
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I think its hideous
Nothing about the design of the card or luggage tags I received says "Diamond Medallion" not even a little bit.
Seemed so logical and simple a few years back when the NW Elite tags and cards were like looked like these:
Silver (super bright/light bluish metallic look)
Gold (metallic gold looking card)
Platinum (metallic platinum looking card)
One would assume that the Diamond card would be black or dark with metallic writing or some sort of sparkly fantastic looking writing (I'm thinking along the lines of what the Alaska Airlines Visa Signature card looks like. (for those of you who know, its attractive).
I'm one of those fools who has their elite luggage tag on my carry on computer backpack and I think it looks super tacky on my bag with it's baby blue border and white background. Fairmont Hotels just sent me their "premier" luggage tags the other day, i might just use them as they look soooo much nicer than the diamond medallion ones, or I could just put the platinum ones back on from one of the last 10 years or so.
Seemed so logical and simple a few years back when the NW Elite tags and cards were like looked like these:
Silver (super bright/light bluish metallic look)
Gold (metallic gold looking card)
Platinum (metallic platinum looking card)
One would assume that the Diamond card would be black or dark with metallic writing or some sort of sparkly fantastic looking writing (I'm thinking along the lines of what the Alaska Airlines Visa Signature card looks like. (for those of you who know, its attractive).
I'm one of those fools who has their elite luggage tag on my carry on computer backpack and I think it looks super tacky on my bag with it's baby blue border and white background. Fairmont Hotels just sent me their "premier" luggage tags the other day, i might just use them as they look soooo much nicer than the diamond medallion ones, or I could just put the platinum ones back on from one of the last 10 years or so.
Mar 16, 2010, 6:05 pm
#10
Join Date: May 2008
Location: SFO
Posts: 851
is there an image online somewhere of all 4 of the credentials for this year ? i saw some tags on bags last week but the trim looked sort of silver and not blue so i was wondering if the silver medallion tags look similar.
google image search has been fruitless. anyone ?
google image search has been fruitless. anyone ?
Mar 16, 2010, 6:19 pm
#11
Join Date: Dec 2006
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Looks like my 6 year old designed it in her art class!! Very week!!
must be the same person who designed the small blue DELTA letters that go on BIG airplanes..
must be the same person who designed the small blue DELTA letters that go on BIG airplanes..
Mar 16, 2010, 6:23 pm
#12
Join Date: Mar 2010
Programs: Delta SkyMiles Diamond, US Airways Dividend Miles Platinum
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I would love to be able to comment on my card but, even thought I cleared the DM qualifications last October, my cards STILL haven't arrived...
Mar 16, 2010, 6:26 pm
#13
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Cannot comment but I do think your benefits are nothing to crow about, so maybe the card should not be so wonderful either.
Mar 16, 2010, 6:32 pm
#14
Join Date: May 2008
Location: SFO
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this kind of post makes me wonder. first off it admits the poster has no perspective for contribution and then goes on to provide negativity anyway.
Mar 16, 2010, 6:45 pm
#15
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These are the kinds of folks that get off on talking about things they don't know about. It occludes our political, financial, and scientific progress. As a rebuttal, its not as though DL sat there and said - let's make an inferior Medallion level, and we better not make the card anything great either. That would be ludicrous.
I feel as though it was just a shortfall on DL design standards
I feel as though it was just a shortfall on DL design standards