Since recently joining the Twitter community, I been introduced to a diverse range of creative and talented persons that share my same passion for graphic/web design, web development and blogging.
I asked my designer, developer and blogger friends on Twitter if they would like their business cards featured in my next blog post (add me on Twitter so you don’t miss out next time). Here’s the outcome. Drum roll please…
Brian Hoff (me)
Graphic Designer, Web Designer, Blogger | www.brianhoff.net | Twitter
Viximo
Design Evangelist | http://blog.viximo.com | Twitter
Doug Cloud
Artist, Writer, Blogger | http://dcblog.net/ | Twitter
Ronica Design
Graphic and Web Designer | http://ronicadesign.carbonmade.com/ | Twitter
Hot Glue Media
The card says exactly what she does | hotgluemedia.com | Twitter
Mayhem Studios
Develops identity and brand recognition / Blogger | http://www.mayhemstudios.com/blog/ | Twitter
Arron M. Lock
Focus on logo development; Blogger | http://www.arronlock.com/ | Twitter
OnWired
Graphic Design and Web Development | http://onwired.com | Twitter
MCG Studio, LLC
Small studio specializing in interactive design and development | http://www.mcgstudio.com/ | Twitter
LogoMotives
Engineering creative identity design | http://www.jfisherlogomotives.com/ | Twitter
3Stairs
Graphic Artist, Typesetter, Web Designer | http://3stairs.com/ | Twitter
Tamar Design+Marketing (TD+M)
Design+Marketing Studio; print, identity, and web design | http://www.tamardesignmarketing.com/ | Twitter
JustCreativeDesign
Graphic, Logo and Web Design w/ an exceptional blog | http://justcreativedesign.com/ | Twitter
Huddy Design
Flash Designer | http://www.huddydesign.com/ | Twitter
Silver Solutions
Web and Software Application Developer | http://www.silver-solutions.co.uk/ | Twitter
iDesign Studios
Custom Web Designer and front-end Web Developer | http://www.idesignstudios.com/blog/ | Twitter
Visual Dexterity
Graphic and Web Designer | http://visualdexterity.com/ | Twitter
SEI Design Group
Architectural Design Firm | http://www.seidesigngroup.com/ | Twitter
Fuel Brand Studios
Designer http://adellecharles.com/ and Blogger http://www.fuelyourcreativity.com/ | Twitter
Chad Engle
Print, Web and Package Designer | http://ceaweed.com/ramble/ | Twitter
R27.CreativeLab
A Creative Studio | http://www.r27.co.uk/ | Twitter
Train Machine
Web and User Interface Design | http://www.trainmachine.com/ | Twitter
CMD+Shift Design
Web Design and front-end Developer | http://www.cmdshiftdesign.com/blog/ | Twitter
Rocking I Designs
Visual Communication Studio | http://www.rockingidesigns.com/ | Twitter
Niki Brown
Graphic and Web Designer | http://nikibrown.com/ | Twitter
Green Tea Design
Freelance Web Designer | http://greenteadesign.ca/ | Twitter
Are you a Graphic or Web Designer who uses Twitter and would like to add their business cards? Feel free to critique our cards. I’m sure we would all enjoy some feedback. Also, check out JustTweetIt.com co-created by Adelle Charles (card above; Fuel+Brand Studios) to search directories of graphic designers (and other categories) who are on Twitter. Great resource to meet new friends.
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Order some new cards last week and was looking for inspiration then, now I stumble across this, a week too late – typical!
Excellent resource for inspiration though, and some great looking cards on show.
Mark
Creative cards. My next project re-design everything I have and use some of the designers here. Thanks
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A lot of nice looking cards but one thing is not one has a call to action or point of difference on them. Even though cards look nice if they say the same thing as a card that doesnt look great what is the real differnence.
Would you want your card to not only look different but be different as well.
Just my 2 cents.
Rich
Niki Brown gets my vote as favorite card. That design is awesome.
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Wow! Awesome cards. I’ve bookmarked this post and will come back when I’m ready to design my own business card. Don’t think I need one for my current profession of “wannabee web designer”.
Great article!
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These are all great, but my faves include the Silver Solutions one, which at first I didn’t like with the “Age†listed – I think that’s weird, but then the lady bug blurb made me smile. Very cute! I like the Logo Motives one also – very clever with the Monopoly look. I also like Arron Lock’s b/c of the “ninja†look to go with his title. I like yours’ as well since I’m a fan of straight, clean lines – reminds me of Mondrian art.
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Great collection of cards! It’s fun to see other designs. I always get new ideas from different designs.
I don’t think I could pick a favorite – they’re all pretty cool!
~ Annie
Wow these are some great cards! I like the black and green on the cards from MCG Studio, LLC
Wow! Thats a great list. Thanks for sharing :-)
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Too late to request a critique / addition?
http://www.laffing-horse.com/grafx/biz-card-1108.jpg
I’m no longer a designer by profession, as you’ll see when you look at my card. And my card may violate every current design law.
The cards above are all quite nice, but at least 2 violate laws I learned when practicing.
Ah, well, laws change and old dogs new tricks, right?
Shawn,
Thanks for the comment. Just took a look at your business cards, and as per your request here is my critique in short…
The two separate sides makes the card and your business seem disconnecting, as if you had 2 completely different businesses on 1 card. Also in my opinion, the Papyrus font selection mixed with the arial font on the contact info, does not seem to work well. One (papyrus) is a decorative font, while arial/helvetica is a more modern font.
Hope this little bit helps. Let me know if you need any more help or critique?
You’re absolutely right! I’ve had a rough time trying to combine the aspects of both sides of my crafts business (fiber arts and brooms) and so, after months of trying to find a unifying theme, I gave up and decided that a split personality was better than no personality at all.
I’ve always felt that logotype should be kept away from the info and vice versa. hence the use of 3 faces in the card… the Papyrus and the script being the logo and the Arial conveys info only. What combination would others suggest?
really a nice post here! joining you guys on twitter (http://twitter.com/aslammemon) hope to see all of u there
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Very Very Very Nice Cards.
Thanks !
Those are some fantastic designs, these are lucky to have you do this for them.
great works…!!
i am junior designer from malaysia.
i am not so much confidence to complete my first job about business card design.
may i just submit my few designs and let u all take a look my work…?
thanks u very much… (please forgive my poor english)…:)
Nice piece of works. Thanks. I really enjoy all the stuff. So nice.
kimberly ventura
Inspirational… Graphic designers have all the fun. Those who are in the *creative* arts — particularly those in graphical arts – can really go to the max with your cards and other marketing materials and make them eye-catching.
Some cards have to still be those *boring* institutional cards (you don’t see too many accountants and lawyers going wild with their card/marcom designs, do you?)…
Ah well. I’d like to error on the wild side. And this post really gave me some ideas!
Thanks for the pictures and descriptions!
Regards,
Dave Gardner aka EditorDave
Very Nice Desings.
Thanks for your post. GREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT.
Krishan
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Some truly beautiful business cards! Thanks for the inspiration.
I’ve been looking for some good business card inspiration. This is the first list that is actually creative, beautiful, and not too weird.
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graphic designer here, thanks for the post. anybody needs a designer for freelance contact me. I have 9 years of real experience.
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Wow! such a wonderful display of business cards but the one really caught my eye was Niki Brown’s business card – its simple and yet artistic.
Lots of great visual design, however, from a naming perspective many of these are on the less-strong side, imo.
This is a really interesting post! Just Creative, CMD + Shift and Niki Brown are the only card that look like they’ve been created by a graphic designer, the rest look like they’ve been done by an accountant with a mac, there is more to Graphic Design than making pretty pictures and its really quite obvious to see here who has it and who doesn’t. It’s the wanna-be’s in the industry that perpetuate bad design like this. If only you needed a degree to practice not just the Abode creative suite package….
I am probably an outsider not in your target audience, however for me I’d like to see more commentary. e.g. xxx has powerful palette, 12pt font is a little too big/too small , nice shape but still doesn’t fit in your wallet, or something like that…
Hi there, nice cards,
would like to add ours :)
http://www.terra-preta.nl/blog/proces-van-schets-tot-realisatie-tp-visitekaartje/
http://www.twitter.com/terra_preta
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But why have none of the cards got a Twitter address on them?
Surely if you are bothering to Twitter you want people to follow your feed?
Or is Twitter seen as too unprofessional for a business card?
What Oli Wright said is very true, some of those are horrible and some are great. Sorry Brian I dont like yours much, it looks so corporate and uninspired :(
Nice Collection, the best creativity in these card designs.
wow.is very good .i’m from china.