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Business Card Inspiration
In my opinion, with all the tech and gadgets that is available to us. I still feel that giving away your business card (after a first client meeting, interview and etc) is part of a good form of communication to explicitly define an impression of yourself on a piece of print. The first impression is always definitive for the future overcome of your intentions. I also believe that there isn’t something as a rule in designing a business card, from the design to the choice of print and paper. Let’s take a look at this sublime collection of business card designs by Anagrama Studio who is a brand development agency based in Mexico. Hope you will enjoy the variety and style of this lovely and inspiring collection. More Information: http://www.anagrama.com.
Print Inspiration: Business Cards
Do we still use the business card? I love the business card, might be a bit 90s old school of me but I found this concept still working nowadays. With all the social/portfolio platforms where we can share our work like your own site, unlike the business card. It's still very fond to show an impression of yourself on a piece of cardboard. Coming to this, I don't think there's a trend in designing a business card. I think the best concepts are the ones that relevantly showcased either you, your brand or the company you represent. Designed by Steve Wolf Designed by Eric Nyffeler Designed by Steve Wolf Designed by Milosz Klimek Designed by Daniel Haire Designed by Salih Kucukaga Designed by Aaron Eiland (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Designed by Keith Davis Young Designed by Studio JQ Designed by Milosz Klimek Designed by Tony Babel Designed by Keith Davis Young Designed by Chad Michael Studio Designed by Rahul Pande
Behance Business Cards Design
I am a fan of Behance, I remember in 2007 when they launched the beta version and I got an invite, I was so stoked. Now after all these years it's awesome to see how it evolved to become one of the biggest websites for creatives. One of the things that makes Behance really cool is also their attention to detail on their own branding. Oscar Ramos Orozco shared the business card designs he created for Behance and you can see what I am talking about in terms of design. Design of Behance business cards applying the identity created by Matias Corea under his direction. For more information about Oscar, check out his portfolio at http://oscarramosorozco.com/
Moo Business Cards Giveaway
With the new design of Abduzeedo, we decided to launch an awesome giveaway for you guys in collaboration with Moo Cards; an online printing business with clients all over the world.PrizeNot one but 5 (five) lucky winners will get a free set of 100 business cards printed and shipped by Moo Cards. (available for all our readers over the world)How to EnterJust leave a comment in the comment box below with a valid email so we can contact you!All Rights to Moo Cards - Image by François HoangAbout Moo CardsFounded in 2004, MOO aims to disrupt the $100 billion global print industry by combining the values of professional design with the accessibility and reach of the web. MOO prints millions of cards a month and has hundreds of thousands of customers in over 180 countries. MOO has also become a much-loved brand, with a 75% NetPromoter rating.The company has won 3 Webby awards (the web's Oscars), has been profiled in the Financial Times, and was ranked in the top 10 UK start-up companies by the Guardian Newspaper. MOO currently employs 90 staff and has offices in London, UK and Rhode Island, USA.Sample WorksAll Rights to Moo CardsLinksFor more information about Moo Cards, you can visit their website at Us.Moo.com, follow Wyzowl on Twitter @overheardatmoo.
Super Cool & Creative Business Cards
If you looking for creative inspirations this is exactly what you need, think outside the box or maybe I should say the card, these business card have nothing to do with the usual you see everyday and that's what makes them special.
10 Super Creative Business Cards
If you thinking of getting a new business card to impress everyone that sees it, here is the inspiration you need. This selection you will see all kind of things people thing of just to be different and very creative by having a business card that stands out a lot from the others.
The Simplicity and Elegance of Black & White Business Cards
Why go too crazy when you can keep it simple and elegant with black & white. A great business card design can be in any form of design or color, but sometimes all you need is to keep it simple in order for guaranteed success, and here are some really good samples of how you can get it done right. The main thing about business card is to represent yourself and/or your work in that little piece of paper (if you chose to go with paper with all the other options we have today), and a lot of people find it difficult to do that. One thing for sure is that you can't go wrong if you make it simple, no matter what is your working area, a black and white business card will fit for anyone. It's the forces of the combination of the two main colors that give a great contrast and such an appeal onto the design. Combine this with other classic elements and you have a great business card. So, how can you express yourself on your business card if it's so simple on black and white? That's when the extra elements will get in play, in these samples if you see each business card on this selection you will notice that most of them have an extra element to increment the black and white design, it can be a special typo, a different design, some drawings, anything that will help the card to represent yourself better. Worse case scenario as you can see in some of these is that the card will be too simple but yet elegant. Enjoy!
1600 Business Cards Giveaway #2 - Winners Announcement
Last week we announced our second business card giveaway sponsored by Printprintprint.biz, the 1600 Business Cards Giveaway #2. As we said we would do a mini contest, selecting the best card designs from the comments and after one week we have the winners. Winner - Borabora - 1000 cards Second - Edgar Andes - 500 cards Third - Roberto Alanis - 100 cards www.printprintprint.biz is the home of superior quality full color printing for great prices. They are also the leading wholesale printing company, offering full color printing solutions for well below our retail prices. To sign up for printprintprint.biz's wholesale program, visit www.printprintprint.biz/wholesale and sign up - ITS FREE!
1600 Business Cards Giveaway #2 - Giveaways Winners Announcement
We have 2 announces to make today, both from giveaways we did, the “Wandering Off into Space” by Chuck Anderson and the 1000 business cards giveaway sponsored by PrintPrintPrint.biz. The winners are: Wandering Off into Space book goes to “Mbithi Masya”. Congratulations! 1000 2 sided color business cards goes to “misterwacom”. Congratulations! But it’s not only that, as we have a great number of comments with very useful feedback, for that reason we have another giveaway. This time however PrintPrintPrint.biz will offer more cards to more readers. We will do a pretty short contest. Just post a comment with a link or publish the image of your card design and we will announce the winners next Monday. The best card will get 1000 copies, the second will get 500 and the third 100. So get engines of creativity going. www.printprintprint.biz is the home of superior quality full color printing for great prices. They are also the leading wholesale printing company, offering full color printing solutions for well below our retail prices. To sign up for printprintprint.biz's wholesale program, visit www.printprintprint.biz/wholesale and sign up - ITS FREE!
Abduzeedo Card Design Contest - Results!
After a whole month we are now ready to finish our first big contest, the Abduzeedo Card Design, sponsored by U-Printing. Sure we've had some problems during the run, but it was a great contest. The first of many to come, and today, we are proud to announce the winners. Winner 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th We had a tie for the 6th place, so these two will get 250 cards each. Brought to you by U-Printing.com For over 25 years, U-Printing has been a trusted leader in online printing, featuring its signature easy-to-use website and the famous Free Project Review, a complimentary proofing service which requires no upfront payment. U-Printing offers convenient marketing support services such as design, lists, and direct mailing to help grow small and medium-size businesses nationwide. Powered by brand new fully automated in-house Komori presses and CREO direct-to-plate, we offer faster turnaround with minimal human error and lower overhead cost. This allows us to provide customers with consistently high-quality printing at the lowest possible prices.We are a division of Digital Room Inc, with offices and facilities based out of West Los Angeles, CA. For more information visit U-Printing website at http://www.uprinting.com
Card Contest New Voting
After a little problem, we gotta restart the card contest. Not every card was avaiable for voting and we started the election 1 day earlier! Even if we added the missing cards later, it wouldn't be fair to them, so that's why everyone gets a new chance now. Here are many designs sent to our Flickr Pool, remember that it was a rule for this contest. So please, you guys may start voting on your best picks. No anonymous vote will be count, nor non-member votes, since it was a member-only contest. You guys cannot vote in your own design, you only must cheer about your own pieces, ok? You guys may choose 2 designs (leave a comment with the numbers you'll choose), and from the results, we'll name the winners. Cheers!! ;) 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55
Card Contest Voting - The Bullet Giveaway Result
Hey, guys!! It's been an awesome experience to have you guys sending so many card designs for our contest! It's pretty great to have many of you participating like that. Today, besides start voting, we're gonna announce the winner of the great The Bullet Tutorial! Since the post is really long, I won't taking long about the winner of the sweet "The Bullet" Tutorial. It totally kicks butt. And the winner is: royceaquatic Congratulations, dude! And now the cards!! Here are many designs sent to our Flickr Pool, remember that it was a rule for this contest. So please, you guys may start voting on your best picks. No anonymous vote will be count, nor non-member votes, since it was a member-only contest. You guys cannot vote in your own design, you only must cheer about your own pieces, ok? You guys may choose 2 designs (leave a comment with the numbers you'll choose), and from the results, we'll name the winners. Cheers!! ;) 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55
Creating a new Business Card
This week I had to create a new Business card for my company, ZEE. I have to say, this sort of work, like creating a business cards, is not as easy as some people think. Actually it’s pretty hard to condense our business to a size of a business card. "The business card... is kind of an extension of yourself. It's a little bit of giving yourself to someone else."— Ken Erdman, founder of the Business Card Museum, Erenheim, PA Looking for some ideas We started looking for some references and we found good sites like: http://creativebits.org/cool_business_card_designs http://www.flickr.com/photos/dailypoetics/sets/72057594104389710/ http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/the_new_duoh_logo_identity/ http://desktoppub.about.com/od/businesscards/a/bcard_parts.htm Creating the card With some references in mind we had the idea of using a tag cloud showing what we do and the technologies we work with. So one side would be white with our logo and addresses, while the other side in blue with the tag cloud in white.The final result:Front Side: Back: