Card description: Minimalist business cards for Keebs. Keebs is the design portfolio of designer/illustrator John Lee.

Designed by: John Lee

Card description: We used Moo’s Printfinity method — which is the option to print different designs on every one — with 352gsm/thick and 100% recycled paper. And the final outcome: Gravitart ‘Color Guide’ Business Cards.

Designed by: Gravitart

Card description: Card printed on Cordenons Flora 300 gr paper, vintage effect.

Designed by: Widestudio

Card description: Braille-in-a-design-school inspired. Blind embossed. There’s some black on there too. It’s tongue-in-cheek.

Designed by: Andrew Sithimorada

Card description: Designed a small series of unique popup business cards for hair stylist Ayako Okada.  Cards show an illustration of a hair style and when folded in half, a new hair style pops up.

Designed by: Silky Szeto

Card description: The company asked for Bling and “difficult to make” looking…

Designed by: Paul Mulvey

Card description: This plexiglass laser engraved business card was designed for my Graphic Design Senior project for a company called Lumin. Its minimalist and clean streamlined design aesthetic enhances its focus on emerging technology products capable of harmless light sanitation simply by turning on the light. This card is a “clear” solution to a smart technology!

Designed by: Kelli Fox

Card description: Business Cards to promote the work of photographer David Iskander (AfroPics.net)

Designed by: Gabe Ferreira

Card description: Business cards for graphic design studio. Letterpress printed at Studio On Fire, Minneapolis. Size: 3.5″ x 2″. Paper: French Poptone Starch White 140# cover (has visible paper fibers in it). Colors: 3 Pantone spots (805, 629, Black 7) + spot varnish. Finishing techniques: Custom hexagonal die cut; Fronts and backs were printed separately, then custom duplexed for total weight of 280#.

These cards were designed to compliment the aesthetic I’ve established for my art and graphic design studio’s visual identity. I define the ATOMICvibe as the “a-HA!” moment of clarity in the creative process. Like nuclear fusion, it’s when tiny ideas coalesce, and then explode into beautiful design. The logo visually depicts this creative reaction. Forming abstract A & V shapes, the converging hands cradle the tiny beginnings of a big idea, fusing them until they discharge a shockwave of creativity. The custom type, designed to perfectly integrate with the mark, is meant to symbolize the path of electrons. The mark is inspired by retro imagery from the Atomic Age such as science, the Space Race, Sputnik, and the iconic George Nelson Ball Clock.

The design of the cards further emphasizes this scientific, nuclear-inspired theme by depicting the logo and “information nodes” as elements that spring forth from an interconnected hexagonal pattern evocative of chemical equations or the visual representation of some sort of chemical reaction.

To help set these elements off, the pattern takes on a “there, but not there” effect with its treatment as a heavily-impressed spot varnish, while the extremely bright, red-orange fluorescence of Pantone 805 really reinforces the nuclear fusion theme.

To add another level of uniqueness, the cards feature a custom, hexagonal die cut, which is inspired by the shape of the logo. And finally, to preserve the deep impressions on either side, the fronts and backs were printed separately, and then custom duplexed together. This gives each card some serious thump factor.

Since the card uses a logo and other elements designed with intentional misregistration, and a paper stock flecked with visible fibers, I chose letterpress over offset specifically because its imperfect printing process lent itself perfectly to my retro-inspired aesthetic.

Designed by: ATOMICvibe

Card description: Debossed clear foil & gold foil, on Colorplan black 540gsm

Designed by David Ward.