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January 21

Beautiful Typographic Business Cards

This is a guest post from David Martin, a web developer living in the often sunny UK, based in Tunbridge Wells. You can find David’s design/development blog here – Cookie Labs and follow him on twitter – @cookielabs.

There is something truly fascinating about beautiful business card designs, I can look at them for ages in awe of their respective simple and sometimes complex designs. Having a beautifully designed business card get have lasting effects on your business. I for one have a huge collection of business cards that I keep to build contacts and provide visual inspiration. In this post I am going to focus on typography in business card design.

Hidden Creative

Reshad Huree

ColorBurned

Kaab Studios

Rhina Studio

Hank

I love Typography

Recycled Business Card

Black And White Letterpress

Up The Punx

King Muck Shanty

Graphic Design Ninja

Kyle Van Horn

Harry Roberts

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

Podgypanda Creative

David Martin

David is a web developer living in the often sunny UK, based in Tunbridge Wells. His design / development awesome blog is Cookie Labs David Martin has 2 posts at Inspired Mag & counting!

Comments

Melody January 21st

The Rhino Studio has an awesome logo design…and the ninja card is so simple yet effective..
Amanda Kay January 21st

Beautiful! I love Graphic Design Ninja so simple yet utterly effective. ‘Twil be an inspiring bookmark when I finally get around to my own card designs =]
anon January 21st

Evil Mad Scientist Lavatories? lol
Andy January 21st

Is it Evil Scientist Laboratories? Or Evil Scientist Lavatories? Am I not getting the joke, or did we forget to check for typos? Or is it all an elaborate hoax designed to get me on your mailing list? Hmmm…
Dave January 22nd

Hidden Creative has it for me, Simple clean and elegant
Katja January 22nd

ilt – i love typography. A real type lover! My favourite.
julio January 22nd

nicely done! some are really clean and simple
niko January 22nd

black and white rocks …
simply and elegant

thank you for some inspiration
Blair January 22nd

The Kaab Studios card with the brushed chrome look on the back is very well done. Love that look. And the ilt card with the debossed print… so simple, yet so awesome!
West Palm Beach criminal attorney January 22nd

The Rhino card is my favorite, great logo, and texturing the card that well is impressive.
Brand Web Search January 23rd

Rhino and ILT looking sharp. Great examples, keep em coming.
Aly January 23rd

Rhino and Ninja are my fav, but Kyle’s is pretty effective for a print studio.
Zack January 23rd
Zack January 23rd

oops, check this one (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvNuzqzGu8A
Joalfran Pérez January 23rd

reshad, Kaab, Rhino, Hank! Nice work!
PrintClick January 23rd

Really feelin’ the style on those rhino cards. Very slick
Dave January 23rd

My favourite is Harry Roberts’. Simple but brilliant in my eyes.
BiB January 23rd

Thanks for collection. But seen most of them on http://www.cardonizer.com
D Vickers January 23rd

Rhino and hidden creative are my fav creative simplicity
David Boni January 23rd

Thanks for featuring my card (Graphic Design Ninja)! It started out as a joke, though I’m glad some folks like it.
Pavan K January 24th

Truly inspired. A tweet to this article came just at the right time when we are thinking seriously about slick business card designs for ourselves, for a client and for an upcoming project. Keep it coming. Thanks.

I chose to check out David Boni (Graphic Design Ninja) http://davidboni.net/ – And the simplicity of the message on his In Construction Page is simply brilliant.
azizuan January 24th

rhina or rhino?
ben January 25th

I have seen the Rashad Huree business card on other inspiration sights, and tons of cards like it.

Holding shift while rotating your name on the front of your business card does NOT make it a good design. Angle and asymmetry makes more interesting design, but his card, along with tons of lookalikes that I’ve seen completely rely on it.

It’s a cop out.
BigM75 January 25th

cool cards
Aldi Gorgeous January 27th

hidden creative, simple but elegant for me my self… and rhino… inspired me… thanks
Takeo Tomi January 27th

Great and fresh ideas specially to the new designers like me…thanks…by the way, I think it is “Rhino Studio” not “Rhina Studio”
Joanna @BOCOCreative January 30th

hey, I’d love to show off BOCO’s design as well. Loved the Rhino. Too bad I’ve seen most of them.. we need to give a voice to some new designs/designers.
Gerard McLean January 31st

Wanna see our creative business cards we did for a soccer show? Wasn’t even a business card..

http://www.tourneycentral.com/sign-up/flip-coin-request
anas3laa February 1st

beautiful
Séverine ❤ Maurice February 2nd

Hank & Harry Roberts… My favorites
Simple & efficace
Alex February 5th

I see many like this come through every day and have some in samples, did not realise these were so popular! Maybe ill take some pics of ours, if any of you have these great designs we can print them for you, textured card, embossing, spot uv, laminated etc etc Have a look on http://www.printedeasy.com and business cards under the products section.

Thanks,

Alex
PodgyPanda February 15th

Wow thanks for the feature! (The podgypanda creative one) So many good designs here
Christopher Burd March 2nd

Like Katje, I think I Love Typography is the best. Nothing against the others, but it’s nice to see classic typographic beauty.
Philippe Alves March 12th

I love the shiny ones. These are great!