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
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Melody January 21, 2010
The Rhino Studio has an awesome logo design…and the ninja card is so simple yet effective..
Amanda Kay January 21, 2010
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 21, 2010
Evil Mad Scientist Lavatories? lol
Andy January 21, 2010
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 22, 2010
Hidden Creative has it for me, Simple clean and elegant
Katja January 22, 2010
ilt – i love typography. A real type lover! My favourite.
julio January 22, 2010
nicely done! some are really clean and simple
niko January 22, 2010
black and white rocks …
simply and elegant
thank you for some inspiration
Blair January 22, 2010
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 22, 2010
The Rhino card is my favorite, great logo, and texturing the card that well is impressive.
Brand Web Search January 23, 2010
Rhino and ILT looking sharp. Great examples, keep em coming.
Aly January 23, 2010
Rhino and Ninja are my fav, but Kyle’s is pretty effective for a print studio.
Zack January 23, 2010
Zack January 23, 2010
oops, check this one (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvNuzqzGu8A
Joalfran Pérez January 23, 2010
reshad, Kaab, Rhino, Hank! Nice work!
PrintClick January 23, 2010
Really feelin’ the style on those rhino cards. Very slick
Dave January 23, 2010
My favourite is Harry Roberts’. Simple but brilliant in my eyes.
BiB January 23, 2010
Thanks for collection. But seen most of them on http://www.cardonizer.com
D Vickers January 23, 2010
Rhino and hidden creative are my fav creative simplicity
David Boni January 23, 2010
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 24, 2010
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 24, 2010
rhina or rhino?
ben January 25, 2010
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 25, 2010
cool cards
Aldi Gorgeous January 27, 2010
hidden creative, simple but elegant for me my self… and rhino… inspired me… thanks
Takeo Tomi January 27, 2010
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 30, 2010
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 31, 2010
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 1, 2010
beautiful ;)
Séverine ❤ Maurice February 2, 2010
Hank & Harry Roberts… My favorites
Simple & efficace
Alex February 5, 2010
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 15, 2010
Wow thanks for the feature! (The podgypanda creative one) So many good designs here :)
Christopher Burd March 2, 2010
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 12, 2010
I love the shiny ones. These are great!
Cathi March 28, 2010
I LOVE letterpress! these are fab! take a look at my business cards here: http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Print-_amp-Paper/466208
Alex May 20, 2010
Love the Carlos Benet One!
JAVI June 29, 2010
love UP THE PUNX!
SIMPLY STRONGER!
Jeremy February 16, 2011
Hi, David
There are some really gorgeous business cards here – can’t decide which is my favorite! You might be interested in our blog as well – we’re at http://allbusinesscards.com/blog/. Take care!
Petr Lysák February 28, 2011
Those are pretty great ones; hidden stands out for me.