Designed by Singapore-based Bravo Company, this card for Junpiter Futbol youth academy lets

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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

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.

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 use this one card making it an economical choice for [actual] partnerships.

Ok, maybe a little over-the-top, but this isn’t the first card for an architect that I’ve seen which is totally way more pseudo-fancy than it needs to be. Are architects trying to be designers? Aren’t they already a sort of designers?

But I don’t care who you are, that bizarre kerning has no excuses.

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 logo, where the type makes your brain thing of both H and A, and how the card is uniform on the back, but customised on the front. I like.

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, why do I need the physical card? I feel as if QR codes are cards spell defeat for the card itself. A bizarre duality where old and new technology clash.

What do you think about QR Codes on biz cards?

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.

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 in this second image.

Bia has submitted multiple cards to this site. Go submit yours. »

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!

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

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 Resource Inc., of Minnesota.

Illustrator Aaron Miller took an innovative approach to his card. While seemingly unrelated to his illustration work, the semi-transparent card with screen printed skeleton opposite the character is indeed clever.

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Gorgeous illustrative cards for Anomali Jewellery. Design by Bia Van Deventer.