I try to avoid a straight re-post from stuff I find on the web, but this piece is just gorgeous. From our dear friends at Studio on Fire comes the card for Ackmann & Dickerson.
[We made] a custom duplex paper — 160lb Mohawk Loop Ivory Smooth pasted to French Construction Nightshift Blue 100C — a thick 260lbC card. Next we letterpress printed them with two colors on each side, silver and tonal navy inks on the blue side, then blue and gray inks on the ivory side. We printed a couple 8up forms to meet all the employee name versions needs and then die cut them with small inverted corners.
Wow.
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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.
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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. Is that initials? The name of a company? See, I’ve already thought about it too much.
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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 to.
Designed by Y&R São Paulo
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Her first card is actually rather eye-catching — a $20 bill — to indicate that we get money to recommend her firm. Pretty straightforward, if you think about it. This brings up a point, though, about how US currency is actually a better bit of design than the card itself, but let’s not go there.
It does, after all, seem appropriate for a tip calculator chart to be included on the back of the card. Accountants are all about correct amounts. But let’s not bring up the abundance of tip-calculator applications on smart phones.
Sadly, her regular card is pretty sucky. Typical small business America, I suppose. Now I wonder if she’ll accept new business cards as payment for my tax return next year …
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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 seems to be gloss stamp, black-on-black.
And the back is silver ink letterpress. Very lusty indeed.
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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 by Thornwillow Press
And yes, I’m intentionally misspelling the name because the company doesn’t want to be Googled. But that’s another story.
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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 his/her own artwork, I don’t mind the recycling of key art like this.
This card is letterpressed, which is impressive that they could achieve such fine detail with letterpress. No idea on printing credits or paper stocks.
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 City on 110# Mohawk paper. A first run of 500, which I imagine he’ll take some time to get rid of.
Craig works under the moniker Words Are Pictures.
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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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