40+ Business Card Tutorials, PSD Templates and Inspirational Showcases

September 11, 2009 - 43 Comments
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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.
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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23 Comments › Leave yours

Rejis
11 Sep, 2009
Nice cool collections. Thanks for compiling “The changing trends in business card designs”.
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Tanay | TJDzine
11 Sep, 2009
I was just designing my business card! This post came at the perfect time. Thanks :)
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designvore
11 Sep, 2009
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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CyberNetikz
16 Sep, 2009
Some of them are really nice and well-organized,thanks for sharing with us !
– CyberNetikz
web development and iPhone apps
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shaunjudy
20 Sep, 2009
Great looking designs. Thanks for the ideas and the thoughts.
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Ben
24 Sep, 2009
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.
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Dany
25 Sep, 2009
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/
@dyvantity
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Kim.D
21 Oct, 2009
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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Business Card Templates
29 Oct, 2009
It is really a cool collection. Such type of templates always attract new business.
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Mohamed
15 Dec, 2009
Amazing collections man, THanks
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Marat
6 Jan, 2010
Good stuff :-)
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jooleeo
15 Jan, 2010
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
17 Feb, 2010
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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Pissu
11 Mar, 2010
Nice Designs, would you like to sell them at cashmyfiles.com
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Checker24
29 Mar, 2010
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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Mark
15 Apr, 2010
Great round up of tutorials.
I have some favorites and some that are just ok.
keep up the great work.
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website templates
17 Apr, 2010
cool designs and very useful tutorials. Thanks
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Bizbell
20 Apr, 2010
wow, nice collection but which software could be best to done?
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Tamilan.R.Praveen Kumar
16 May, 2010
this very mokkai
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Subhadeep Gayen
22 Jun, 2010
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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PSD Cards
10 Jul, 2010
Great collection thanks
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Emma
6 Aug, 2010
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
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Carter Ward
11 Aug, 2010
i always make my own business card through adobe photoshop and ms word, they are satisfactorily made though-,-
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