I enjoy the logo and typography for L’Arte del Gelato, a small gelato shop in New York’s Greenwich Village. I cannot, however, endorse their choice of card size, which is nothing like a business card, but instead some almost-square contraption.

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Last month, I collected my weight in business cards at the FUSE Conference in Chicago. Many of them were dull corporate nonsense, but the gold medal of exceptional cards went to the boys from Brooklyn-based Chapps Malina. The card is black, made of some strange sort of suede-like, rubber-like finish. The text on the front [...]

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If you have ‘wood’ in your name, it’s a great excuse to have a card made of wood. Actually, this particular material would make for a nice card for anyone. I enjoy it. Cardsofwood.com, if you’re interested.

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An electronics engineer whose business card is not only an actual circuit board, but it’s a USB thumb drive. Useful, yet bulky. I’m afraid this isn’t the first one of these I’ve seen, and thus, I’m not terribly impressed. Bold, though, because this has to cost a pretty penny.

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If you’re a reader of the Financial Times, or a listener to the BBC Business Daily podcast, you’ll likely be familiar with Lucy Kellaway, the straight-talking advice woman whose perspective on business is very 21st century, in spite of her many years in the trenches. Today, the topic is business cards and titles. … the [...]

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Hurry, only two days left to submit your card for the Worst Business Card in Portland content »

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