Nice little see-through cards for Frantisek Krivda. This printing process is experimental, a developing sort of UV burn printing for printing on plastic.

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Floris van Pallandt is a graphic designer in Amsterdam. His card is simple and tasteful. He’s also the first reader to submit an animated GIF of his card!

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From Bavaria, Germany comes mediendesignwerk and their agency card. These cards feature “look-alike-letterpress” and are printed on 600 gsm “Cotton” paperfactory “Gmund” with 2-color offset printing and strong blind embossing for the “M” pattern. Printed by Druckkultur Späthling

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I dig this letterpress card from majorminor. Grey, Blue, and blind letterpress on what feels like Crane Lettra 200# or something similar. It’s nice to handle.

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A very cool card from Joshua Miles, designer in Indy. These cards measure 3.5″ w x 1.625″ h, slightly slimmer than standard. The stock is a 30 mil frosted PVC, printed 3/2 colour space with PMS Black 7, 8201 Metallic Blue, and translucent white (multiple hits). Typeface is Avenir (Light and Heavy). Printed by Plastic [...]

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The other day I met an excellent young man named Gaston who recently left his position at Landor SF. His card, obviously, reflects this. This is interesting because it’s clearly a short-term fix to the business card problem, but it’s also an act of rebellion that runs deep in the industry. He simultaneously boasts of [...]

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These made me chuckle. Obviously, designed in the style of mid-90s mix tapes, these are printed on transparent plastic. Seems to be self-promotion for Wild Labs, a French design firm. The only trouble is, I can’t see that these guys have anything to do with music, or with home-grown underground music, as the mix tape [...]

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This is a very meta business card, seeing that it’s essentially a business card printed on other people’s business cards. In this case, designer Woes van Haaften tied in a social experiment in how he chose which cards to print on. “These cards represent my traces in different worlds. It’s a personal and unique collection [...]

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3angrymen is a London-based digital content/production company. Identity and Stationery from Build. Read more about the project on their site. A closer look is available at Lovely Stationery. via The Artist and His Model »

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David Airey, world-renowned consultant and designer, has published on his blog examples of his first business card. In this case, he’s embodying the mantra I very much follow, which is that progress is the ability to look back at yourself and ask “what the hell was I thinking?”. I don’t actually think this card is [...]

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Perforated for pleasure and connivence, here are the cards for Sassen Design in Australia. “The typographic inspiration for these cards came from vintage signage and bags made from recycled truck tarpaulins,” according to designer Chris O’Neil, who submitted these cards. Each card is a standard size business card when separated. Printed on Expression Super Smooth [...]

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I’ve often touted the merits of a thick card, but this is really serious. Danger have designed a card which is, as they say, twice as high as a penny, or the “finger diameter of the common fancy rat.” (A common unit of measurement, naturally). Printed on 90 point recycled chipboard. What do we think, [...]

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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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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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