Here’s an early card for Google’s Co-Founder Larry Page. Looks like a homemade job, evidence in those perforated edges and the bleeding ink that comes about from uncoated paper through a late-90s inkjet. At the time, they didn’t have the budget, so I’m going to assume that Larry has a better card these days. Also, [...]
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Steve Jobs is a man of style. He has training as a typographer and designer. He and Woz and that early crew brought us the Mac. This was his card. via Designers Go To Heaven »
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I don’t often feature an entire stationery suite, but this project was submitted by reader Martin Marusinec, and deserved a profile. Here, the identity materials for Touch Branding all follow the design scheme of a blood bank — making use of translucent envelopes and sticker labels. Full marks for consistency and use of typography, but isn’t [...]
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OOS is an architecture and urban planning firm. Here, the cards, are stacked up in a convenient tear-off pad with perforated edges. Convenient, but overall I reckon this is lacking in design savvy. Is it so super-critical to have all the cards bound together? We’ve been doing fine with individual cards, handed out singly. No?
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Today I spotted two cards from Broke Bike Alley, a repair shop in British Columbia. Here, the approach is one of those functional cards. First is the wrench-card, which helps you tighten up your nuts and bolts in a hurry. And next is the tire patch. Presumably softer, lighter, and thinner than the wrench, you [...]
The other day, I had the pleasure to meet Jan Šabach, a nice young man from originally from The Czech Republic. His card is pretty clever, designed to mimic the old-school rulers commonplace in graphic design studios. Many younger designers who work primarily with digital tools may not appreciate the type-size and leading guage on [...]
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The other day, on Twitter, I remarked that H&R Block is one of my all-time favourite logos. It’s just a green square, which is the beauty of it. These thoughts were picked up by Darla Tierney, one of their social media mavens, who proceeded to not only thank me for the compliment, but to send [...]
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Today is a simple, effect, clean example of a one-colour business card. The Ciné Institute has a sharp design sense, maintained in part by Alana Salcer. The back is somewhat unremarkable, but let this be a lesson, people, a one-colour card isn’t a death sentence. Use the card colour, use some shades, use floods. Make [...]
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