Your Business Card is Crap! Not quite!

Your busi­ness card leaves an impres­sion of You, even when you are not there. A beau­ti­ful busi­ness card helps you stay in on the radar of the people you are giv­ing it to, a great busi­ness card makes you standout. We have came across some beau­ties, and we would like to share them with you.

Send us busi­ness cards that stand out, we will pub­lish them!


Author: The School for The Graphic Design School
The Graphic Design School teaches Graphic & Web Design , Online, Any­where in the World.

Your Busi­ness Card is Crap!

This clip inspired us to make a react­ive thread. We laughed so hard at this self pro­fessed ‘Rich jerk’. We couldn’t agree with his appel­la­tion more. Check it out, see what you think! Below are a few of our fav inter­act­ive busi­ness cards… that didn’t take 25 years to design!!

I am Emer­son Taymor”

Emer­son Tay­mor is a quirky ‘little’ guy. His busi­ness card seems to reflect his over­all style, check out his web­site too.

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www.emersontaymor.com

Impact Salon

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www.creativesuitcase.com

Google Me Card” — Ji Lee

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Down­load a tem­plate to make your own! www.pleaseenjoy.com

Lego

Can you believe that this is a busi­ness card? For who else, but the employ­ees at Lego. They are designed to look like the employee that they rep­res­ent by match­ing hair color, style and accessories.

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www.lego.com

Tur & Partner

Jong von Matt of Ger­many (also fea­tured in our European Print Art­icle this month) made this awe­some busi­ness card for Tur & Part­ner an archi­tec­tural land­scap­ing com­pany. The card con­tains seed­lings that ger­min­ate when you water and expose to light.

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Raphael Essoo-Snowdon

He designed and cre­ated these awe­some 3D glasses when he was a Graphic design stu­dent. He painstak­ingly did all of the cut­ting and con­struc­tion by hand.

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Raphael Essoo-Snowdon on Flickr

Peet Pien­aar

Laser cut busi­ness card of South African per­form­ance artist/graphic designer Peet Pien­aar. From Daddy buy me a Pony magazine.

I’m using art as an excuse to live a very inter­est­ing life — it allows you to be who­ever you want to be, do whatever you want to do, go where ever you want to go. It’s like a free ticket.

Peet Pien­aar

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Peet Pien­aar on Flickr

1scale1

Laser­cut busi­ness card of David Sjun­nesson of 1scale1: a Crit­ical Research Stu­dio look­ing into the devel­op­ment of inter­act­ive media solu­tions. This busi­ness card really needed to be inter­act­ive for a com­pany with that kind of a mis­sion statement.

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www.1scale1.com

Scizors

Scizors is a small post-production com­pany who asked Ben Schlit­ter to cre­ate their iden­tity and brand­ing. Those ambi­tious enough to cut on the dot­ted line are rewar­ded with a small paper robot.

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benschlitter.com

Bracket

Bracket is a pub­lic­a­tion that fea­tures everything-in-between — ideas, pro­cess and voices over­looked and under-appreciated. Nice rep­res­ent­a­tion of the com­pany through this simple yet effect­ive idea… genius.

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www.silnt.com

Che-Wei Wang

This design is inspired by Ken Blackburn’s world record paper airplane.

Tip: Fold the busi­ness card air­plane with the wings tilted down­ward. It’ll fly like a dart. Noth­ing like a paper air­plane fly­ing around an office of board pen­cil push­ers to get your mes­sage ‘out there’.

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cwwang.com

Mur­illo Design

A good iden­tity pro­motes instant reten­tion and long-term recall in an already over­crowded marketplace.

As stated on their website

And what bet­ter way to prove your point than prac­ti­cing what you preach! Hell if they make it big, we might be able to use this busi­ness card as currency.

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www.murillodesign.com

Donovan Mafnas

Busi­ness card of our very own lov­able tutor and forum tech­nical advisor at The Graphic Design School Donovan Mafnas. Donovan is not only one of the most pro­fes­sional and effi­cient people that we have ever had the pleas­ure of work­ing with, he is a ‘kick ass’ designer. Love your work Dino… again!

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www.fuelhaus.com

Reactor

The boys at Reactor thought they were worth a little extra. This is a great concept for a busi­ness card to leave at an inter­view… sets an ‘up and com­ing’ designer apart from the hoards of poten­tials that an employer may seek. Nice one!

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www.yourreactor.com

The cata­pult busi­ness card

Bryce Bell is a designer with a LOT of time on his hands, and quite a few fans.

You can cre­ate one of these your­self, by vis­it­ing his site for instruc­tions and instruc­tional videos. You never know when you may need a cata­pult for an ant inva­sion… think about it!

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www.instructables.com

Mas­ter Promo, Cur­it­iba, Brazil

They designed this card for Couples Ther­ap­ist Mar­isa Schmit Silva. Makes you wanna have mar­ital prob­lems just to get your hands on one of these. Thanks to adgood­ness for this find.

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www.frederiksamuel.com

Make your own inter­act­ive Busi­ness Cards

Want to learn how to make this cute little guy? You can fol­low a tutorial and even down­load the tem­plates at com­puter arts. You will need InDes­ign for this one, maybe even Scribus. Be inspired by this tem­plate and adapt it to your own style.

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www.computerarts.co.uk

Amer­ican Psycho

Last but not least we would like to leave you with this little clip from the movie Amer­ican Psy­cho. Too good!

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Amer­ican Psy­cho: “Busi­ness Card Scene”

Comments

27 Comments to read below
  1. Jen says:

    I loved these thanks! You’ve given me a good idea for my own busi­ness card.… stay tuned!
    ps I’m lov­ing the course!
    J x

  2. Kattie says:

    Wow, I cant believe that guy..he sure is right a Rich Jerk. I thought it got fun­nier the more I watched it. I really like the idea of cre­at­ing busi­ness cards that go bey­ond the norm. The selec­tion that you guys found was great. So great I Digged it. And I don’t just digg any­body, LOL.

  3. Leoni says:

    Love it, love it, love it! These are fant­astic! What more can I say, but I can look at this kind of stuff all day…inspiring!

  4. solo says:

    Really cre­at­ive!! i like!

  5. widy says:

    wow.…that are nice…^.~

  6. Tank says:

    Another card that IMHO could be included on this list is that of Kevin Mitnick.

    http://picdit.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/mitnick.jpg

  7. Robert says:

    These were abso­lutely amaz­ing — really out of the ordin­ary and cre­at­ive. I’ve come across the “Rich Jerk” clip. It’s hil­ari­ous but also very true. It really has broadened my hor­izens when it comes to think­ing of what’s pos­sible for busi­ness cards. Another hori­zon that was recently broadened was in regards to print­ing — my new printer (http://www.digitallizard.com/graphic-designer.php) helped me design an online portal from which my cli­ents can dir­ectly order prints from.

  8. Philipp says:

    Fant­astic jobs!
    Here is an other wooden busi­ness card for a b&b: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12936550@N00/3597444139/

  9. MGdezigns says:

    I saw many busi­ness cards blog but yours is by far the most dif­fer­ent , unique col­lec­tion a couple of em I have seen here and there but oth­ers are so dif­fer­ent
    check out my busi­ness cards designs here at my store Busi­ness cards by MGDezigns

  10. Hi,
    Like where you are going with the list, our is http://www.gotham.com.au/images/business-card-design-gotham.jpg which we are pretty proud of.

  11. Tanya says:

    Tur & Part­ner is not a land­scap­ing com­pany, it is a land­scape archi­tec­ture company…very dif­fer­ent. One is about the plan­ning and design of out­door space and the other is about build­ing it. Your con­fus­ing the printer with the graphic designer.

  12. Good point Tanya, par­don our ignor­ance, we have amended ;)

  13. Bcardnow says:

    Ciao! Excel­lent post .. would you have any Busi­ness Cards you would like to share with me on my new web­site: http://www.bcardnow.com.
    Thank you in advance!!
    Merih

  14. Alex says:

    Funny clip that was! I won­der where it ori­gin­ated from. I see it all over the inter­net nowadays. It might have took him 25 years to make but his busi­ness card looks some­thing else than a busi­ness card and is rather imprac­tical. People should take a les­son from that vid when they design their own busi­ness card.

  15. Dennis says:

    Thanks for the great con­tent and inform­a­tion. I am always going through the inter­net search­ing for good con­tent and to also get ideas for my home based busi­ness web sites and future art­icles on this basic and gen­eral sub­ject. Again, thanks for the great con­tent and I will be com­ing back to revisit this site again for more inform­a­tion in the near future

  16. tenpens says:

    ha ha!! funny clip altho i did think his ‘bril­liant’ busi­ness card looked a like a beer mat when he first pulled it out!!! great to see some very cre­at­ive & ori­ginal busi­ness cards on here!!!

  17. pinkograf says:

    Hi there!
    I would like to sug­gest another big col­lec­tion of busi­ness cards:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/biglietti_da_visita/

    here you can see trans­par­ent busi­ness cards, metal (stein­less steel) busi­ness cards, clear plastic busi­ness cards… 700 busi­ness cards and more. With real pho­tos, not mock up!

  18. Rob says:

    The ‘rich jerk’ video is a joke for all of those who think it’s ser­i­ous. It was part of a viral mar­ket­ing cam­paign, a bril­liant one in my opin­ion! His name is joel bauer if you want to look him up.

  19. Mike says:

    Great selec­tion.

  20. wingnpryr says:

    I saw the same clip on Rob Dyrdeck’s Fantasy Fact­ory. Too great!

  21. Iraklis says:

    Thanks for this great post! How nice this col­lec­tion is!
    Recently, I cre­ated a spe­cial blog for busi­ness cards in which you are going to find tips, advices, cre­at­ive ideas, mar­ket research res­ults, spe­cial offers and dis­count codes from Print­ing Com­pan­ies. Check it out at: http://diveintobusinesscards.wordpress.com I am eager to receive your feedback!

  22. JPG HAWAII says:

    Wow, great post!
    We always try to be cre­at­ive and make very unique designs. Our cli­ents are sat­is­fied with res­ults all the time. We also make busi­ness cards. :) check it out!

  23. Very cool selec­tion of bus­niess cards. Got to love them.

  24. These are all bril­liant and fun to see. All except the one that took 25 years to make. I have met that guy. He is for real. This is not an act. And he has fans. They’re the ones I’m really scared of. BC’s are only part of his “do it my way or die” sem­inar. Men have to wear black suits, pink shirts with match­ing pink ties. And pointy shoes! If you ever get a chance to see this idiot — Joel Bauer — by all means pre­tend you’re attend­ing a sem­inar but know you are going to see a self-centered, demean­ing, unbe­liev­able one-man com­edy act (although his present­a­tion is not meant to be funny–he really believes his own bullshit!).

  25. The Tay­mor busi­ness card looks cools and its very cre­at­ive busi­ness card.

  26. […] Speak­ing of start­ing, here is a list of cool cards you can check out for inspir­a­tion. This list and this one. […]

  27. aqsa says:

    You are so cre­at­ive. I have never seen these kind of cards before.