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		35 Creative Business Cards – Graphic Designs are everywhere!!
Charlie B. Johnson		Comments 37

Who doesn’t need a business card…corporate workers, skilled professionals, consultants, entrepreneurs, freelancers and the list goes on. Therefore, without wasting my and your time, discussing the significance of business cards, I want to share the aim of this post.

While searching for creative business cards on net, you come across some repeated describing words such as…exciting, amazing, awesome, coolest, hottest and many more. I have also compiled business cards with all these qualities but I will be presenting them in a little different way.

Most of the business cards are tucked into a wallet or desk drawers, while others are incredibly unique and make people look at it twice. I bring you 35 examples of amazing business cards under different categories. It will help you search your choice of business card and get a clear vision what qualities you want in your design.

Don’t forget to share your favorite which was inspiring enough to tempt you to get your business card redesign….so gear up guys!!

Funky Business Cards:

With the changing time and trends we all try coming up with something different to attract our customers. I think funky business cards are good to have as they convey a company’s up to date ideas and advance approach.

Me Lissa Duran

Freelance Photography & Design

De:tales

Suderman Photography

Becka Viau

Clarabella

Nine Lives

Black & White Business Cards:

Beauty of black and white designs can’t be mistaken in any design. You don’t always have to use colors to make your business card appealing and memorable for your customers. Strong graphics in black and white make designs more impressive.

Brenna Quan

Rf Records

XPS

Obsessive Behavior

Green Business Cards:

I have noticed that green color is very much preferred for business cards. Not only companies dealing in environmental activities or growth use this color but also preferred generally when it comes to designing of business cards.

Compair

Lands Scape

Four Seasons

4O Sardines

Francesco

Clever Graphics for Business Cards:

We all are very well aware about all the wonders graphic designing can do for us. While exploring creative business cards I came across few cards which made me stop and take a second look. Amazing graphics and clever concepts can give a hard time to your competitors…for sure

Ingrid Design

Marleke Vanderweeen

Digito Polis

Mr EYES

Deja Marca

Popcorn

Kevin Cheng

Typographic Business Cards:

We all know that no graphic design is successful without good typography. Typographic designed business cards can deliver obvious and clear targets of a business, motivating the customers to make a deal.
I strongly believe that typographic business cards can make you unforgettable in the list of customers….do you agree?

Kato

Shoe

350 ml design

Broadcast Brand Company

Igs

Unique Shapes:

One of the oldest and most successful ways to make a business card stand out is using unique shapes. When your card does not look like any regular business card and it does not fit along with other cards, it will definitely make you remember that business or its bearer’s details.

Fifth Floor

Erato

Chris Fisher

Joao Faissal

Tactix

Fire Light Forge

Structural Graphics, LLC

So my dear friends…did you like this idea of showcasing these wonderful business cards? But, I think there are many categories and business cards which can be added.

I will really appreciate if you help me enlist few more categories and send in business card links for suitable categories. If you have a favorite business card, send me the link and I’ll add it to my next business card follow up collection.

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Posted in: Cool Stuff, Design Inspiration, General Graphic Design

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37 Responses to “35 Creative Business Cards – Graphic Designs are everywhere!!”

Print Matt | March 24th, 2009 at 1:32 pm

Quite a colorful collection. Suderman Photography and Chris Jones Popcorn are my favorites business cards from the set.

Printclick | March 24th, 2009 at 6:15 pm

Nice list you’ve put together. I really like the die cut microphone one; the simplicity of it is awesome.

Cheerful Madness!! | March 25th, 2009 at 5:24 am

Very inspiring collection Thank you for posting.

All the best,

Cheerful Madness!!

professional web | March 25th, 2009 at 6:12 am

I liked the way you categorized them. There are others collections that are not so well categorized. Nice job! Thanks, - Niki

Marketing Agency | March 25th, 2009 at 4:01 pm

Nice collection! Very unique and creative

Manda Szewczyk | March 25th, 2009 at 8:41 pm

FINALLY! A creative business card post with REALISTIC cards!! I don’t know if I’m just too old and experienced to enjoy the crazy off-the-cuff million-dollar cards, or if I’m just too poor to realistically consider them. Thanks so much for finding beautiful (and creative) cards that could actually come off a standard printing press!

Jen Ohs | March 26th, 2009 at 12:39 pm

Fantastic resource of inspiration. I’m so glad this isn’t the same list I’ve been seeing everywhere else - there are so many cool cards out there, we just needed to dig them up!

Thanks!

Double A+Ron | March 26th, 2009 at 7:29 pm

Just crazy, it always blows my mind when someone can do to such big things with very little canvas.

Give 2 Achieve | March 27th, 2009 at 6:52 am

Thanks for this collection. Its really very much giving inspiration to me and i think to all of the blog visitors.

Kathleen Maher | March 27th, 2009 at 8:04 am

All of these are eye-catching and intriguing. And as Professional Web March said, by categorizing them like this, we give us something like a spectrum.

Nate At Plasticprinters | March 27th, 2009 at 9:47 am

Way cool! As a designer I think it’s awesome to see all of these new ideas for business cards. People taking it to the next level with some kickass designs!

Some of are clients have come up with things that blow my mind as well, we don’t do any of the cool die cutting or anything but do the clear plastic ones like the Tactix card.

I think my favorite is the Structural Graphic Card, I was looking for some gift card accessories for the cards we do and spoke with them and have one of their business cards on my desk, very cool to see it included here!

Nate

Anna Green | March 27th, 2009 at 10:18 am

These are an amazing collection of business cards! I especially like Nine Lives, Brenna Quan, Deja Marca and Fifth Floor… I love the embossing and the punched out text. When done right they can give a real precision, look. There tactile objects that you would want to keep regardless of what they were for.

Chris Collins | March 29th, 2009 at 2:24 pm

Great collection of business cards! I’d love to see more posts like this. Gives me some great ideas about designing my own cards. I really like the green business cards.

Johnathan | March 30th, 2009 at 1:33 am

Really nice stuff there. Anyone know where I can get something like that done? I’m guessing I would have to go somewhere special, not just a normal printing shop.

merlinvicki | March 30th, 2009 at 1:59 am

very creative and inspiring designs.

Anna Green | March 30th, 2009 at 9:51 am

@ John - To get something like this done for yourself you would need to employ a talented designer who new there stuff when it came to print techniques, and a quality printer who wouldn’t bodge the job. Not to mention a big budget! It would take a long time a fair few prototypes to get an accomplished design like one of these to a finished state. You would also need to supply a good brief. Hop this helps.

Charlie B. Johnson | March 31st, 2009 at 3:05 am

Hi to all my encouraging readers,

I would like to thank @ PrintMatt, PrintClick, Niki and Cheerful Madness for appreciating the collection and categorization of these business cards.

@ Anna Green, I totally agree with your list of favorites as embossing effect enchants me too.I would really appreciate if you could send in some links for inspiring business cards to include in my follow up post. Thanks for helping Jonathan and giving him right guidance.

@ Manda Szewczyk, here we too share the same thopught. While compiling even I thought maybe I dnt have that much money to have such amazing business card

@ Nate, its my pleasure that I included one of your creations as well.

@Chris Collins, I promise to come up with another collection soon but you have to contribute also. Do send in any creative business cards you find inspiring.

@ Jonathan, thanks for appreciating the list and I think @ Anna Green have well replied your question. Thanks Anna

Nando | April 2nd, 2009 at 12:46 am

Dude, these are amazing.
Thanks for ALWAYS bringing your A-game
to your posts.

Talk about inspiration!

I think it’s time to revamp my stuff.
Let’s chat–I need your help, yeah?

Keep up the great work!

Nando

Dave at GreatDealPrinting | April 2nd, 2009 at 11:16 am

Great group of business cards! Its refreshing to see some creativity out there. It’s rare that we see an order for something quite so unique.

To answer some of the commentors, we can provide full color printing for cards of this caliber. $39 for 1000 business cards full color two-sides on 14pt stock. We have thousands of designs to choose from, or submit your own creation!

Cuttlefish Designs | April 8th, 2009 at 1:11 pm

This is quite the collection. Some great ideas for our online design studio.

Design your own today!

Creative BusinessCards | April 16th, 2009 at 5:23 am

I really liked it. I also gather a collection of business cards.

Bobby | April 23rd, 2009 at 10:36 pm

Awesome business card designs! Amazing!

Bobby

Anna Green | April 29th, 2009 at 11:12 am

Hello, Sorry for the late response. Here is a link to an image book marking site that has not just business cards but packaging books and lots of other inspiring design examples. If you have a root through you will find a few great business cards. There is one in particular that i like it has perforations (like you would find on food packaging) which allows you to peel back the top layer of card to reveal the details. Very cleaver.

www.msnkartvizit.com | May 3rd, 2009 at 6:42 am

I found the graphics very good super

Jean-Marc | May 9th, 2009 at 12:25 am

We love when designers design outside the box. We also have collected a list here: http://www.thegraphicdesignschool.com/blog/advertising/your-business-card-is-crap-note-quite/
Comments welcome!

Caity @ Cartridge | July 1st, 2009 at 4:59 am

Wow, this is the first time here and all I can say is that those are really amazing, its great what one can do with such a small piece of paper and create the most outstanding things, great post and blog hope to come back soon

yama | July 8th, 2009 at 10:00 pm

that’s so grand!

J32 | July 27th, 2009 at 9:03 am

A beautiful collection of business cards. Thanks for the inspiration.

Hurmus | August 31st, 2009 at 8:28 am

Great collection.

You may also like these card:
http://ultimolayout.blogspot.com/2008/12/minicampo.html

Thank’s.

Clippingimages | October 11th, 2009 at 6:37 am

Inspiring designs

Trevor | November 4th, 2009 at 12:32 pm

The Suderman Photography card is very good. However I think it would only appeal to a younger customer. An older person might be put off by it.

Eric | November 19th, 2009 at 5:11 pm

Great art needs limitations. Amazing what can be done on a tiny piece of paper/plastic.

Alex | December 14th, 2009 at 6:47 am

Was the firelight Forge one made of actual wood? It will make you look twice though i think I’d rather stick with the more elegant looking ones like the 40 sardines. Great roundup though. If you’d like to see other interesting designs feel free to take a look at my blog, it’s dedicated to wonderfully designed business cards

business post card | January 6th, 2010 at 12:55 am

marketing with postcards is an effective offline advertising method. You can make it more personalized to get the attention of your prospects. You should have a captivating headline and attractive designs.

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