I always love a nice illustrated card. Here, Claire Wood has submitted her card. Simple, pleasant, and shows her illustration style.

Here is the personal calling card of designer Rachy McKenzie. These cards were “created using hand generated typography and a range of bright colour combinations.”

This week I spotted the clever iPhone-inspired card from digital designer Frederic Tourrou. Considering the relative high polish of Tourrou’s site, I’m a little confused by the “hire me now” tagline, it seems more fitting for a junior design fresh out of school. Maybe something like “slide to contact” or “build my app” would be more appropriate.

I like the rustic look of these cards for Carlos Cruz, wedding photographer. Designed and printed by Kristina of PrintPlace.

A simple gloss-on-matte card from Belgian designer Olivier Piedboeuf. Well done. More specifically it’s a matte coated stock with spot UV.

And yes, we should all remark on the poor photograph considering this is a photography company. I guess shooting static objects is a particular art in itself, even compared to weddings.

Designed by Singapore-based Bravo Company, this card for Junpiter Futbol youth academy lets

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From Ksenya Samarskaya comes this card for Mio Tokida. The card is etched onto and perforated out of Stainless Steel.

Tokida approached me looking for a promotional business card for a new line of her jewelry, which is composed of thin delicate metal threads hooked and looped together to form a decorative yet restrained chain. In talking over the design with her, I got excited about the possibility of having the card be an inverse of her final product, as if the chains could’ve been gathered from the missing punches of the card. Custom script lettering for the perforation was then designed in order to bring a sense of delicacy and refinement to the stainless steel cards.

A lot of programmers and all-purpose geeks have featured circuitboards and other gadgetry in their actual cards, so why not tie to together as part of the suite?

Just to disclose, I am in no way affiliated with ThinkGeek and I’m not being paid for this post.

Says Mostafa of the card:

[The card features] an arabic square Kufi styled name with his 8Bit graphic style picture, and the date in English with a readable 2D code of the same date

From designer Ksenya Samarskaya comes this retro-inspired self-promo card.

Previously having professional business cards go unused, I concocted these for informal settings. In a casual atmosphere the shared conversation tended to vary as I identified as a sometimes typographer, sometimes cipher, friend, pickler, cyclist or dinner curator. The solution of using the standard pager greeting appealed to me as introductory, colloquial and open-ended. The design employed a custom 7segment typeface, with colors dictated to make the numbers fade into the paper while the letter-message stood out. Serving as a nod and a wink to the pager generation, a card that simply says, “Call me, we’ll talk.”

Also, if you go to HelloEhoes.com, it will get to Ksenya’s website.

Printing is White & Black Foil on GF Smith Colorplan in Cool Blue 540gsm.

The aim of my business card is to create a memorable experience and leave a sweet impression on the people I meet. I believe that engagement starts with the first interaction and as a brand engagement specialist, I think this card is a great way to illustrate my approach to branding.

What do you think? Is this catchy or cheesy? Would you eat the cookie and save the fortune, or would you save the whole thing and attempt to keep it uncrushed?

From The Designer Fund comes this cool interactive infographic highlighting which popular tech/internet startups were founded (or co-founded) by designers. Guess what, they use business cards as the information vehicle! Fuck yea.