Here is the card for New Zealand-based designer/photographer Paul Petch.

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I don’t often repost cards from other blogs, but I spotted this earlier and it’s just brilliant in its simplicity. Designed by Singapore-based Bravo Company, this card for Junpiter Futbol youth academy lets via FormFiftyFive »

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From Ksenya Samarskaya comes this card for Mio Tokida. The card is etched onto and perforated out of Stainless Steel. Tokida approached me looking for a promotional business card for a new line of her jewelry, which is composed of thin delicate metal threads hooked and looped together to form a decorative yet restrained chain. [...]

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I don’t often feature products on this site, but I spotted something clever that I imagine some you might enjoy. From ThinkGeek comes the Circuitboard Business Card Case. It’s a business card holder made of a circuitboard, get it? A lot of programmers and all-purpose geeks have featured circuitboards and other gadgetry in their actual [...]

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Behold the 8-bit elegance of the card for Mostafa El Abasiry Says Mostafa of the card: [The card features] an arabic square Kufi styled name with his 8Bit graphic style picture, and the date in English with a readable 2D code of the same date

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From designer Ksenya Samarskaya comes this retro-inspired self-promo card. Previously having professional business cards go unused, I concocted these for informal settings. In a casual atmosphere the shared conversation tended to vary as I identified as a sometimes typographer, sometimes cipher, friend, pickler, cyclist or dinner curator. The solution of using the standard pager greeting [...]

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I think this is the first edible “business card” I’ve featured on this site. From NYC-based Mikella Lowe comes this little gem. The aim of my business card is to create a memorable experience and leave a sweet impression on the people I meet. I believe that engagement starts with the first interaction and as [...]

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From The Designer Fund comes this cool interactive infographic highlighting which popular tech/internet startups were founded (or co-founded) by designers. Guess what, they use business cards as the information vehicle! Fuck yea.

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The business card for Modern City, submitted by Chad at Tiny Prints This card, featuring a design by Oh Joy!, is good for those who would want a chic metropolitan aesthetic. The image on the card captures an unspecified city skyline with contrasting colors, probably a good style for an urban business (architecture, commercial real [...]

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Frederic Lootens is a Belgium-based design who operates under the moniker FRED+ERIC. The splitting of his own first name yields two more, giving clients the impression that his one-man shop is actually a partnership. His card shares this split personality, with Fred and Eric on reverse sides. If there were two partners, they could each [...]

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On Reddit, of all places, I spotted this card for Natalie Roberts. I found it efficient and somewhat clever how she lumps in all her contact info within her email address, even though it may not be an entirely original idea. I’ve often been faced with this, where people don’t realise that my website is [...]

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Pretty cool. Unfurl this “card” for Dr. Richard Eigner and feed it through a music box. Ritornell for Musicbox from Ritornell on Vimeo. via Quipsologies »

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This is a simple card for Seattle’s Hornall Anderson. My pal Izzie works there now, and I’m rather fond of her card. It’s very orderly, and in this case, I don’t mind the grid action. There’s also a bit of a fill-in-the-blanks approach at work, although Izzie didn’t make use of it. I like HA’s [...]

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I spotted these very sharp cards from Nathalie Cone, design out of Baltimore. Says Nathalie of the colours, “The fluorescent red ink straight out of the can was a little too bright and harsh for what I was looking for, so my printer taught me that mixing other “normal” inks with the fluorescent red (she [...]

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In spite of my poor photography skills, you should try your best to examine this gorgeous card from Bleu Sky Creative up in Vermont. It’s a two-colour letterpress with rounded corners, but the impression isn’t too deep. I dig the engraving-style artwork and typography.

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