Oct 31, 2011

21 Best Business Cards from October 2011

In the spirit of keeping up with our tradition to bring you what we think are the best business card designs released each month, we are once again featuring 21 cool business cards from around the web. This collection is aimed at inspiring you in creating your own business cards. Again, we judged these cards based on creativity, uniqueness and overall visual appeal. We hope you will find them inspiring as well. If you know of any extraordinary business card but we failed to feature here, please alert us by posting a comment below. Meanwhile, if you know more about any of the design below, simply follow the link provided below each preview image. Enjoy!

01-Optical Illusion Card by Youngha Park
A stretched design on a personal business card inspired by the road signs seen painted on painted streets. The only drawback about this design is that, most people would have a hard time, reading the contact details. Others might just throw your card without exerting extra effort to read the details, defeating the main purpose of a business card. On the other hand, some people might get really intrigued by the new concept, making this card memorable and trash proof.

02-Steve Jobs Homage by Duane King
A minimalist business card design inspired by Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs who passed away in October 2011. RIP.

03-Table Of Contents business card by fortress letterpress
This is just one of the three business card designs for Table Of Contents. These were printed on French 140# Pure White Muscletone paper.

04-Fourteen Letterpress Business Cards
A wonderful art print workshop in Karlstein (Lower Austria), which is run annually by Andreas Ortag and Michael Karner, inspired the creation of a limited number of special business cards. The press proofs are ripped into business card size and the address is added with a chop. So each card is unique. Workshop photos by Irene Rick.

05-Thermo Paint Identity Cards by Troegele
Heat sensitive cards using a thermo paint finish. This type of business card can only be read if the temperature rises such as a finger or hand placed over the card.

06-Handmade Thread Embroidered Cards by Nina Gregier
A unique and personal handmade thread embroidered business cards. Hand stitched typography has created another unexpected graphic form. Cards are handmade in limited edition, thread can be any color that matches well with 250gsm black paper.

07-Letterpress Business Cards
Letterpress business card of Juan Madrigal, Art director and Photographer. This card uses 4 ply 100% cotton rag mounting board. The boards are acid-free, Neutral pH and buffered with calcium carbonate. It also uses Cyan soy ink made from soya beans as opposed to traditional petroleum based inks.

08-Baron Cafe Business Card
A nice business card for a coffee shop.

09-Relabld Contact Cards
Relabld is an online fashion market built from an independent currency system of user product appraisals. Cards include engraving on logo and informational text, duplexing of paper stock to 260# and edge painting yellow.

10-3D Business Card by Guillaume
This 3D card shows the logo of the web-shop, a gift and the Berlin TV Tower (home of the company).

11-Business Card Design by Tetsuo Takahashi
A business card for graphic designer.

12-Chocolate Colored Card
This card was letterpress printed with a die-cut on the card stock and labels, giving it a vintage feel with a modern twist. The background of the label was letterpressed as well to give it a subtle hint of texture while the dark, deep chocolate brown card stock gives the card a modern and timeless look.

13-Thirty Dirty Fingers

14-Ana Canavese Favourite Cards by Meidei
Graphic designer and art director Ana Canavese needed a business card collection for moving creative directors to enter her online portfolio.

15-Unique Stamped Business Card by Han Na Jung

16-Wooden Business Card by Nick Tryer
This card was etched onto reclaimed pieces of marine plywood.

17-Letterpress Business Cards for Wyatt
Letterpress business cards for Boulder-based creatives Wyatt: 3-color, single-sided, with

18-Bulgarie by Boby Dimitrov
This card features embossing, metallic gold foil on deluxe ivory cardstock.

19-MACV Letterpress Business Cards by Dolce Press
The design aims to highlight the logo using embossing. Instead of the traditional method, we used a faux-emboss to achieve the same effect.