Business Cards: Sources for Design Inspiration

Business cards represent you and your business – what do your cards say about you? Are they standard corporate cards, or do they reflect your personality or your company’s culture? If you’re looking for design ideas for business cards, I’ve listed a few below that might spark your imagination as you design your cards. (Please note that we’re not able to print some of the more custom cards shown here, but hopefully these will give you ideas that will look great when printed on our 16 pt. double-thick paper.)

• 18 Smokin’ Hot Business Card Designs: This collection of 18 business card designs showcases cards that are both fun and professional. We can print a 3″x 3″ round business card like the one shown here, but unfortunately, we can’t print fortune cookies…
• Creattica Business Cards: This site bills itself as a “gallery of great design and visual imagery.” It allows designers to submit their work to be voted on by other users. The cards shown here demonstrate a range of styles.
• 36 Cool Business Card Designs: These cards are from the DZine Blog. Note the use of rounded corners on a couple of the cards, especially the one that has only two corners rounded.
• 25 Beautiful Typographic Business Cards: These cards show how good typography can create attractive visual designs.

And last but not least…

• Green Business Cards: Yes, all Greenerprinter business cards are green because they’re printed sustainably on 100% recycled paper with soy inks, but these cards are – literally – green!

Other options for making your business cards stand out are narrow cards and rounded corners. Our narrow cards are 3.5″ x 1.5″ instead of 3.5″ x 2″ and have a sleeker look than standard-size business cards. Using rounded corners also makes your cards stand out from the many straight-edge cards that are typically handed out at business events; for added visual appeal, consider doing rounded corners on only one or two edges instead of all four.