I’m not actually sure why he’d need a business card, but it never hurts. I love the vintage typography, even on this cartoon card. via FFFFound »
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Freelance graphic designer/art director PIM has a clever idea for how to prime the referral machine — have you business card multiply itself. A perforated line helps ripability. Pretty self-explanatory, but with directions. Never hurts to walk people through a supposedly understood procedure. The only problem I can spot — PIM is a stupid name. [...]
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3D cards are a touchy subject — they can be clever, and they can easily go to far. I like this card from TAM Cargo, because it folds flat to serve as a conventional card. That way, if you have no patience to carry around a miniature shipping box in your wallet, you don’t have [...]
Like many Americans, I have a strange relationship with my accountant. She knows more about my family than we’d like to admit, and we are at her mercy to decipher the ever-changing hieroglyphs known as the Tax Code. Her first card is actually rather eye-catching — a $20 bill — to indicate that we get money [...]
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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This design for a dog tag-style card was sent in by Christofer Johnson of Luice Design. Copyright issues aside, I think the US Army eagle crest makes an appropriate edition for these. The tags are laser etched and die cut, on stainless steel. Corners are rounded so as to avoid the slicing of fingers!
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Spotted this, found it funny. And strangely, this isn’t the first card for Jack Sparrow I’ve featured on the site. This is a trend, apparently.
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A subtle but sophisticated approach for [)ynamica. The card size is 3.5″w x 2.5″h, making it distinct in the hand. Because of this unique size, the card serves almost as a notecard, with plenty of room to jot down info. Engraved copper and grey ink on custom 210# cover stock, with grey edge staining. Printing [...]
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Here we have a case study in resourcefulness, as Erica Heinz, designer [and yoga teacher], uses engraved artwork of yesteryear for her present day business card. Old engravings and artwork from previous centuries are in the public domain, so are therefore free for folks to use. While a designer may be pressured to do all [...]
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Craig Ward, the highly-decorated and highly talented typographer/designer, has worked in multiple countries, for numerous clients, for many years … without a business card. Finally taking the effort to design one, and have it printed, I am pleased to present his card. A single-colour, letterpressed card, printed by Dave at Print Icon in New York [...]
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Vintry is a little bar down in New York’s Financial District. They have a nice card. Craft paper with red foil stamp and rounded die-cut corners. Very sharp. Type could be improved a bit, but the production is quite lusty.
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What better way to promote your fabrication business than with a small machine disguised as a business card. In this case, it’s probably not the most practical device, but we have to admire the novelty of it. Right? Cardnetics is the company behind this craziness, and apparently this is what they do.
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