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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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 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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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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This card seems to encompass everything about architecture in America. The size isn’t the standard 3.5″ x 2″, but instead the European sizing (85mm x 54mm I think), showing they ultimately want to be creative like they are in Sweden and Germany. The black-only colour is economical, but also pretentiously artsy. The typeface is mechanical [...]
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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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This is a quick one. It’s a card for Razorfish, equipped with a QR Code. If I remember correctly, this code didn’t quite work because it tried to bring me to a website which would download the .vcf, but the intent is good. Except, if I were to scan your card and get the info, [...]
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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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Examples of some sharp cards for Mulderbosch Vineyards from South African designer Bia van Deventer The seal logo and wordmark are embossed, and the rest of the card is printed 4-colour process. Cardstock is something called Savile Row Tweed, which sounds very posh indeed. You can see just about see the texture of the cards [...]
Here’s the card for Argentina-based photographer, Joaquín Villaverde. Cardstock is illustration board, 350gsm.
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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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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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