The Art of the Business Card: 187+ Creative Examples, Tutorials & Resources

 

Business Cards, Business Cards, and more Business Cards… If you’re interested in design, which you most probably are since you’re reading this, you’ll know that there are literally hundreds and thousands of great cards out there, and probably triple that of poorly designed ones. They’re all around us, a great way to promote your business or product, and a great source of inspiration.

There are quite a few business card inspiration posts out there in the design community, but this one is a little different. Not only are there (almost) hundreds of creative cards to look at, there are tutorials and resources, too! Once you’re feeling inspired, it won’t be long and you’ll be finishing up on your own business cards, and search for online business card printing services so you can start handing your cards out!

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Business Card Inspiration:

Here are the examples of the cards, hopefully there are at least a few in there that you’ll love! Remember to share what one (or two.. maybe 3…) are your favourites in the comments below, I’d love to get an in-depth conversation going! What one do you like most? What one stands out most? Get talking! I’d like to say now that they’re not all business ‘cards’, such as the LEGO people, but they have the same purpose!

The Art of the Business Card: 175+ Creative Examples, Tutorials & Resources

The Art of the Business Card: 175+ Creative Examples, Tutorials & Resources

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The Art of the Business Card: 175+ Creative Examples, Tutorials & Resources

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Business Card Tutorials:

So you want to design (or re-design) your business card after seeing all of them excellent designs but don’t quite have the know how? Here are a few tutorials to get you started!

Making a Print Ready Business Card Using Only Photoshop

Making a Print Ready Business Card Using Only Photoshop

Custom Sim Card Business Card Tutorial

Custom Sim Card Business Card Tutorial

Cardboard and Torn Paper Business Card Tutorial

Cardboard and Torn Paper Business Card Tutorial

Making a Grungy Business Card

Making a Grungy Business Card

Business Card Design Project Walkthrough

Business Card Design Project Walkthrough

Design a Print Ready Business Card for Designers

Design a Print Ready Business Card for Designers

Put Together and Print a Business Card with uPrinting

Put Together and Print a Business Card with uPrinting

How to Design an Abstract Business Card in Photoshop

How to Design an Abstract Business Card in Photoshop

 



Business Card Articles:


Best Places To Submit Your Business Card Design:


Ready To Print? Great Online Printers:

 
Hopefully from this post you’ve found some great inspiration, a few excellent business card tutorials, a few tips on how to put your cards to good use, where to submit your card designs to get them known (and maybe featured in a post like this!), and finally where to get them printed at cost-effective prices delivered to your door!

Remember what I said earlier – what’s your favourite, and what do you think works best when it comes to business cards?

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27 Responses to “The Art of the Business Card: 187+ Creative Examples, Tutorials & Resources”

  1. Sneh Roy September 4, 2009 at 6:33 am #

    Very comprehensive and useful resource! Thanks Callum :-)

  2. Callum Chapman September 4, 2009 at 6:59 am #

    @Sneh: Thanks, and no problem :)

  3. Ben Skeggs September 5, 2009 at 11:50 am #

    thanks nice cards
    i was wondering all th images are aorund 180 kb but the page loads quickly how did you do this ?with a cache right?

    what cacheing methods are you using ?

  4. Callum Chapman September 5, 2009 at 4:04 pm #

    @Ben: I simply resized the images to 580px wide and saved them as a jpeg at 10 quality in PS. Other than that and a fast server, that’s all I did ;) I really do recommend Hostgator, they’re awesome.

  5. Brandon Corbin September 6, 2009 at 12:00 am #

    Phenomenal list! How long did it take you put all of these together?

  6. James Hunnisett September 6, 2009 at 1:48 am #

    Love the collection Callum. There are some great examples there.
    I’m trying to sort out my business cards at the moment, but everytime I think I have the perfect one and am just about to send to the printers I change my mind!

    Whoever said designing for yourself was the hardest thing to do wasn’t joking!

  7. Callum Chapman September 6, 2009 at 8:04 am #

    @Brandon: Thanks, glad you liked it! Uh, took quite a while, about 2-3 hours I think ;)

    @James: Haha I know the feeling ;) Try treating it like it’s a project for somebody else, set yourself tasks and deadlines ;)

  8. Jasmin Halkić September 6, 2009 at 9:07 am #

    Awesome…

  9. Printclick September 8, 2009 at 8:57 pm #

    I must say, the long load time was worth the wait. Excellent list you’ve put together for some design inspiration. Cheers

  10. Derek October 23, 2009 at 10:30 pm #

    Nice collection. The perforated divorce attorney card is genius.

  11. Mike March 10, 2010 at 6:04 pm #

    Very comprehensive selection. The examples that combine great design with equally brilliant concept and copy are head and shoulders above the rest.

  12. Nicola Brath March 17, 2010 at 3:49 am #

    After reading Very good ideas on your Blog. I like. thank you for posting this lovely information

  13. Cardview May 12, 2010 at 10:54 am #

    Great Collection :)

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