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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I dig this letterpress card from majorminor. Grey, Blue, and blind letterpress on what feels like Crane Lettra 200# or something similar. It’s nice to handle.
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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 Resource Inc., of Minnesota.
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The other day I met an excellent young man named Gaston who recently left his position at Landor SF. His card, obviously, reflects this.
This is interesting because it’s clearly a short-term fix to the business card problem, but it’s also an act of rebellion that runs deep in the industry. He simultaneously boasts of his former role, and slanders his bosses (or at least the confluence of factors that caused him to leave.)
Am I reading too much into it?
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This is a sharp little letterpress number from New York-based software engineer Joshua Kehn.
Cards are printed on 640 gsm stock, 100mm x 60mm. The typeface is Hoefler.
Obviously, this is a simple and elegant card. It works well as a carte-de-visite, but as a business card, I’d like to add a title or email address. Call me old-fashioned.
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I dig these cards for Mestre Cervejeiro, a Brasilian brewery. The very sharp identity is designed by Curitiba-based D-Lab.
I can’t tell for certain, but it looks to be kraft paper with sticker, screen printed and die-cut with some edge-staining too. Pretty elaborate, actually. See the full stationery suite here.
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Check out this Utility Card from Grain, perfect for any occasion. Birthday, wedding, whatever, just circle it.
Again, this isn’t a business card, per se, but I can imagine this being likewise useful for someone who has wears multiple hats. Imagine a similar concept but with various job titles circled — art director, voiceover artist, stuntman. I mean, you could if you don’t mind stealing a good idea.
It’s like I always say, good artists borrow, great artists steal. I made that up.
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I’m not even sure if this counts as a business card, but I’m loving this colourful little card, part of the larger effort for A Good Week. Check out the full project from Because Studio.
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I almost a little surprised I’d never seen the business cards of Marian Bantjes before now. Like the rest of her work, it’s incredibly intricate and unique. Wow.
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This is pretty cool. Business cards for kids.
Red Balloon, an English School for kids, asked its students what they wanted to be when they grow up. Based on their answers, we designed personalized Kids Business Cards. Result: more kids believe in their dreams and more parents believe in the importance of English for their kid’s future.
Check out the full set on Behance.
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Usually, I reserve my “WTF Wednesday” segment for my other blog, but I stumbled onto this and was just taken aback. Somehow, this seems like a desecration of the natural world rather than a cheeky bit of resourcefulness. I don’t know what that says about a person who deals in biofuels, but you be the judge.
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These made me chuckle.
Obviously, designed in the style of mid-90s mix tapes, these are printed on transparent plastic. Seems to be self-promotion for Wild Labs, a French design firm.
The only trouble is, I can’t see that these guys have anything to do with music, or with home-grown underground music, as the mix tape implies. You see, everything we do gives visual cues and sends cultural signals. Oh wells.
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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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This is a very meta business card, seeing that it’s essentially a business card printed on other people’s business cards. In this case, designer Woes van Haaften tied in a social experiment in how he chose which cards to print on.
“These cards represent my traces in different worlds. It’s a personal and unique collection and therefore a kind of self-portrait.”
The cards are laser cut, which is a nice common denominator as to how to display your info against so many different colored cards.
All in all, quite interested. But if handed this, I’d probably have a little bit of a WTF reaction. I don’t know if a single card has the desired effect by itself.
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