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The Top 100 Best Business Cards from 2010

The Top 100 Best Business Cards from 2010
The top 100 best business cards of 2010 really are a varied collection, with more and more unique ways of creating business cards being developed every month. While large corporations typically elect for standard (and relatively boring) business cards, small businesses and freelancers can capitalize on their creativity and focused brand image to create a unique and creative business card. Large companies sometimes can create unique cards as well, as their larger budget and personal design teams can have free reign to develop something awesome. Whether you’re a fan of letterpress business cards, functional business cards, vector and cartoon cards, or even a bit more clever business card, you’ll find some awesome cards in this collection. If you need more business card inspiration, check out these posts: Have a safe and inspired New Year! Swiss Army Business Card Wooden Business Card Good Apples Jack Napier The Wedding Boutique Fuelhaus Tina Durocher Kenny Tire Patch Bike Tech Vonnda Scratch Off Card

Cool business card designs | creativebits Pause Home Entertainment's iPhone speaker card. Kol Kid Crayon Business Cards you can draw with. Tattoo Business Card. Adrian Tan, Lighting Designer's Light Card. Tennis Academy's business card. FedEx card that looks like an envelope. STRIK Creative Concept Control agency's business cards. Make Vancouver's miniature scribble slate. Six Taste's edible business cards Brothers Landscaping's turf business cards. Kyalin's before and after business card demonstrates the slimming capabilities of the brand. Framing service business card. The Littlest Ad Agency's handmade business card. Land of Ross' sunglasses business card. Business card for an optician. A special business card that doubles as a cheese grater. Copywriter and Art director duo wanted to have a card that they can hand out to promote themselves as a team, but also wanted to have opportunity to practice their professions individually. Steve Li Accupuncture's business cards are laser perforated recycled old cards. Rethink Canada designed this Mr.

How to Design Your Business Card As web designers and developers, we often overlook printed marketing materials. But on occasion, they can come in very handy: at conferences, when we meet face-to-face with clients, or when we happen to run into someone we might want to do business with. Having business cards is a great way to promote yourself in the physical world. Of course, since web design is a creative field, you’ll want your business card to serve as a sort of mini portfolio that displays your skills. And the skills necessary to design a business card can be easily adapted from those that are required to design a website. Size and Shape Standard business cards are 2″ x 3.5″, in either vertical or horizontal orientation. There are a few benefits to the standard sizing, the primary one being that it’s generally less expensive because it’s common. But just because business cards are traditionally a 2″ x 3.5″ rectangle doesn’t mean you can’t deviate from that size and shape. Die cut cards are particularly popular.

Gold Price A+ Identity process on Branding Served 100 (Really) Creative Business Cards Whichever business you’re in, and especially for anyone in the field of design, such as web designers, a business card can be as important as your website identity. A business card creates a physical connection and bond between you or your business and your customers. Just like in a website, business cards can become great interactive elements, but with the added ability to have real textures, different materials and shapes. In this article, we’ll take a look at 100 truly outstanding business card designs which show that there are truly no limits to the design of a business card. Which ones are your favorites?

40 Creative Business Card Designs 40 Creative Business Card Designs December 9th, 2008 | Inspiration | Unique and creative business card designs from all over the world. 01 - Emerson Taymor Business Card 02 - Pomegranit Business Card 03 - Stephanie Towell Business Card 04 - Murillo Design Business Card 05 - Ken Speckle Gifts Business Card 06 - rfrecords Business Card 07 - Rubber Band Business Card 08 - Piano Repair Business Card 09 - elkha Business Card 10 - Viewzi Business Card 11 - Bright Corner Business Card 12 - Yuka Suzuki Business Card 13 - Flow Yoga Business Card 14 - Thomas Wood Products Business Card 15 - Greek Restaurant Business Card 16 - Debt Recovery Agent Business Card 17 - il progetto Business Card 18 - Elevator Business Card 19 - Justin Anonuevo Business Card 20 - Sean M. 21 - Joe Duffy Business Card 22 - Wunderburg Design Business Card 23 - Junge Schachtel Business Card 24 - Paul Nielsen Personal Trainer Business Card 25 - Celia Keyworth’s Food Business Card 26 - Richard E. 27 - JWB Business Card 28 - Dave Blank Business Card

Beast Pieces 5 Principles of Persuasive Web Design 366inShareinShare What’s the best way to persuade somebody when talking to them? You have to be confident, talk fast and swear a little, among other things. But what about persuading somebody without words – possible? You bet. Researchers installed a ‘fly’ onto urinals across different airports around the world: The presence of a fly in a urinal literally changes human behavior. This is a clear case of getting people to do what you want without using words. Are people in Denmark selfish? This graph represents the number of people who’re registered organ donors, divided by countries: So only 4.25% of Denmark, but over 99% of Austrians – what’s going on here? People go with whatever is the default. Do people change software settings? Here’s another tidbit. If you’d like more people to take action, make the preferred actions ‘default’. That being said, there are lots of opportunities with designing for default. We spend very little time on deliberate thought Know your target audience 1. 2. 3. 4.

Social Benches by Jeppe Hein Incredible design of benches by artist Jeppe Hein… Jeppe Hein Concept incroyable de bancs par l’artiste Jeppe Hein… 42 Awesome Business Card Designs (With Links to 100s More) In today’s tech-oriented world of short attention spans it is more important than ever to make a compelling first impression. A brilliant business card that speaks to your profession, serves some unusual function or that transforms into something else can be a great way to grab attention and inspire those you meet. Organized by category here are 42 extremely creative business card designs. Some of these are old, some new, but all are still amazing examples of out-of-the-box thinking in business card design. 1) Constructable Designs – Business Cards You Have to Build A card with some assembly required forces the recipient to spend more time with it – which is a good thing if you want to avoid getting lost in the shuffle. 2) Organic Designs – Calling Cards You Can Watch Grow What could be a more dynamic way to leave your mark than handing out something designed to actually grows and changes on its own over time? 3) Pragmatic Designs – Calling Cards You Can Actually Use

Businesscardland Tianducheng: Paris In China [Photos] Clever and Funny Business Cards That Will Crack You Up Handing out a business card to a prospective customer is the subtlest promotional approach. Unlike other marketing methods, people accept business cards without any inhibitions. Therefore, it is only essential to have a card that will create valuable first impressions. Originality and a sense of humor usually gets a person noticed and remembered. Advertisement

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