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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11 Sep, 2009
Nice cool collections. Thanks for compiling “The changing trends in business card designs”.
11 Sep, 2009
I was just designing my business card! This post came at the perfect time. Thanks :)
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.
16 Sep, 2009
Some of them are really nice and well-organized,thanks for sharing with us !
– CyberNetikz
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20 Sep, 2009
Great looking designs. Thanks for the ideas and the thoughts.
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.
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
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.
29 Oct, 2009
It is really a cool collection. Such type of templates always attract new business.
15 Dec, 2009
Amazing collections man, THanks
6 Jan, 2010
Good stuff :-)
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!!!!