40+ Business Card Tutorials, PSD Templates and Inspirational Showcases

September 11, 2009 by Paul Andrew Graphic Design, Inspiration, Tutorial

A business card is the most important tool any designer (or businessman) should have. It delivers the brand of your company and, most importantly, it represents YOU as a creative professional. It gives your potential client a glimpse into who you are, what you can do and your level of professionalism. Lets be honest, high quality work and reasonable pricing do not always speak for its self, but professionalism always does. That is what a client is looking for, someone they can rely on, trust and ultimately deliver the project they require. That is what your business card must reflect.

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How do you design a business card that portrays who you are, what you do and how you do it? Sadly, there is no real answer to give for these questions, other than to say that it is down to each individuals personal creativity. There are basic guidelines and goals to the content of business card, which we have listed below:

Business Card Content

The goal of a business card is to make it easy for someone to reach you, not difficult. Put as much of the following as possible:

1. Business name (if there is one).
2. Your name.
3. Your title.
4. A phone number (or two).
5. A fax number.
6. A mailing address.
7. Your e-mail address (never use a free service).
8. The URL of every—and only—website.
9. (Optional)A tag line.
10. (Optional) Your line of work, if not clearly identified by your business name, title, or tagline.
11. (Optional) Any (Optional) you’ve earned (i.e. “Adobe Certified Expert, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat”).
12. (Optional)If you speak or work in more than one language.

Your Business Card is Crap!

Before we get started with the post proper, have a look at this video from College Humor, and you will realise, yes, my business card is crap!

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http://psdguides.com Rejis

Nice cool collections. Thanks for compiling “The changing trends in business card designs”.
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  Best collection of biz card designs I’ve seen. Thanks!
http://www.tjdzine.com/blog Tanay | TJDzine

I was just designing my business card! This post came at the perfect time. Thanks :)
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Great and complete roundup for tutorials and ressources. Anyway, I would add that I have a fast-growing business card showcase in my design inspiration gallery http://designvore.com which showcases on a daily basis the cream of business cards.
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Some of them are really nice and well-organized,thanks for sharing with us !

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Great looking designs. Thanks for the ideas and the thoughts.
http://benfellowes.deviantart.com/ Ben

Some of these BC designs are great! I can recommend http://www.overnightprints.com to anyone wanting to get pretty reasonably priced BC’s printed. They don’t look as cheap as most budget print shops.
http://dyvantity.com Dany

Thanks, very inspiring!

I recommend also these articles about creative business cards:

http://dyvantity.com/inspiration/50-cartes-de-visite-plus-creatives-que-jamais/

http://dyvantity.com/inspiration/40-nouvelles-cartes-de-visites-qui-font-rever-vol2/

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Fantastic selection of distinctive business card designs. Very important for your business card to stand out from the crowd. These design ideas are perfect for helping achieve that.
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It is really a cool collection. Such type of templates always attract new business.
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http://www.minewarez.co.cc Mohamed

Amazing collections man, THanks
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Good stuff :-)
jooleeo

This guy in the video… dont know who he is and dont care but its an idiot.. of course the other business cards dont say much… but his business card its no more a business card… and also its more than $4 each… anybody with that kind of $$ can make amazing ideas because he can afford it. all the other examples in the post AWSOME!!!!
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Annett Hernandez

These are fantastic cards but where do we get them printed? How would I go about finding a professional quality printer willing to print these?
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Nice Designs, would you like to sell them at cashmyfiles.com
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The time is indeed a nice collection, I’m looking for ages for such high quality designs. Thank you for that.
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Great round up of tutorials.

I have some favorites and some that are just ok.

keep up the great work.
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cool designs and very useful tutorials. Thanks
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wow, nice collection but which software could be best to done?
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this very mokkai
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Great Tutorials,Here’s one you might add,
How to create Old Grudge Style Business Card :
http://pcandweb.com/tutorials/how-to-create-old-grudge-style-print-ready-business-card.html
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Great collection thanks
http://businesscarddesignideas.com Emma

Nice roundup. I’ve seen these tutorial before though. I made a metallic business card tutorial that you might be interested in it’s on youtube. It’s here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZBBjoB3L9M You can add that to your business card tutorials links! :D
http://www.carpetextractor.info Carter Ward

i always make my own business card through adobe photoshop and ms word, they are satisfactorily made though-,-
http://blog.vroomvroomvroom.com Richard Eastes

Your article help inspire my new business card. Thank you!

You can see it here http://blog.vroomvroomvroom.com/2010/09/your-car-rental-business-card-is-crap.html
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Professional looks which i expected
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nice guide, please recommend some software also that which we should use to design business cards like these.
http://www.justpressprint.net Raphael Coccia

The video is awesome! I never seen that before. thanks for sharing this great collection of cards.
Anonymous

This one is really looking one of awesome post. And this post really unveils the best of collection of the business cards. And I am sure they are incredibly exceptional thing for the higher business impression. Thanks for sharing some authentic thing.
Subash

Visiting card in google style - http://www.4shared.com/photo/uqpYLUvG/Google_Visiting_Card.html
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Awesome collection, thanks a lot!
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Divya99swetha

gud collections
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Some are super awesome!
Adathr

Thank You very much
Adathr

Thank You very much
Muhtadinamri

good…
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Awesome collection of tutorials. Very unique looking cards.
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i like this..thanks for sharing…
HeenaPatel

Excellent very nice collection i like this thaxxx for sharing….))

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