This quite creative business card design is simple yet elegant and brand-friendly. It seems like he hasn’t much information on it, yet everything needed is there. He maximized the space and focus by using both sides and throwing away all of the unnecessary information(address, fax, etc). The result: everything is easily readable and isn’t lost in loads of information.
This not very unique business card has other strong sides. First this cards owner is a candidate for senate, so his face is his brand and it is very well featured here. Other thing I like is that he has included his “sales pitch”, election promises, on the other side of the card, very handy when you’re thinking about who to vote for.
Minimalistic business card for a hosting company. Name, catch phrase and a website, that’s it. The potential client can find all of the other information on the website. The client will need to visit it anyway, so why not leave the only contact information he’ll really need and make it several times more visible and powerful? Remember: Every bit of unnecessary information takes away attention and power from the necessary info.
Here is a very interesting concept, the M++CARD is a Business card which includes memory storage on the rear side of the card. The back of the card is laminated so as to hold a memory card (like Sony M2 Card). Two slits on the card make it possible to snap on a USB adopter, through which this card can be accessed. As per your needs, related data can be stored on this card. Thus, M++CARD can become truly business card, company info card, website card, product info card, portfolio card and so on.
This is also a great way to grab attention and also make sure your business card doesn’t get thrown away, at least it will be used in someones household:) and as the saying goes: “Hang around long enough and you’ll get noticed”. It doesn’t fit into a business card holder so it’s already differentiating from other business cards and what’s best is that it won’t get torn.
Here’s a post by Seth Godin, a famous internet marketer, about business card mistakes.
As a world known marketer he receives a lot of business cards so his opinion on them is based on more than theory, he has valid points that I couldn’t have said better.
This is my favorite scene from the whole movie. Though the film itself isn’t for everybody’s taste (not sure even for mine) you just have to love this scene. I think the movie was worth watching just for this scene only.
Many people think that they are going to get a new cool custom business card, order one and what do they get? Same thing as any other “custom business card” owner.
Designing custom business cards isn’t just about sticking a new picture on the background or changing the color of the font. REAL design is about creating something completely new. It is about combining two or more things that haven’t been combined before. It is about applying a new approach, it is about delivering an old product in a new shape.
Let’s take this Dániel Perlaky’s design for Tribeza magazine. What does this illustration show us? A house with a different color?
No, it isn’t a house. It’s a place where you want to live. It is a building with a different shape. Hell even living in it feels different.
Or at least it’s what this image conveys. And this is what your Custom Business Cards should do: they should create a feeling that your business is different, better, ahead of time and best choice for them.
You can’t do this by just sticking a logo or a different background on a white piece of paper.
This card is called “Ruby is beautiful”. I don’t know if it really is that beautiful, I actually don’t even know what it is. I suspect it’s some programming language.
But back to the point. Whether or not this cards name is a fact, it does show us another creative approach to custom business cards.
Whether you take the inspiration from the field which the business card refers to, from your or other peoples hobbies, interests, photos or whatever, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that your “ambassador of business” doesn’t bore your (potential) clients to death.
Owner of this work of art is creative on his website as well. Check it out: igvita.com
Often entrepreneurs and business owners forget that business card isn’t just a piece of paper with their name, address and phone number on it. Business cards have to be visible, fun, entertaining and be remembered. Boring black and white text won’t do that job very well. So to remind and prove to you I will show what a little color can do with a business card.
Black and white aren’t colors at all
Here you can see a regular black and white card I designed for example. Although many business cards don’t even have any B&W pictures I didn’t want to waste time and space and just made this one:
As you can see it has nothing that would make it noticeable in a stack of other regular business cards.
Business Cards can have many functions, but as you know multi-functionality is bad for quality. Having different Business Cards for different people solves that problem.
Business Cards are a fantastic way to convert potential clients into regular clients. But to do that they first need to stand out of the competition. Marketing is nothing without its first step… Attention!
Business Cards are a fantastic way to convert potential clients into regular clients. But to do that they first need to stand out of the competition. Marketing is nothing without its first step… Attention!
