Who needs a business card these days when everything’s online? As it turns out, business cards are still relevant today and can really make a great first impression with customers and clients. Handing someone a physical business card these days is admittedly a little rarer than perhaps back in the 20th century, but that simply means that if you’re passing them out and few others are, that moment may be more memorable and certainly a lot more personable than sending someone a LinkedIn contact request.
Designing a business card has perhaps never been easier, as well, due to many free/freemium applications such as Canva. Create your design, save, and take it to the print shop – easy peasy!
Below are a few creative business card design ideas to hopefully stir your imagination:
While just about every big business for the past, say, 20 years or so has been riding the coattails of Apple et. al. with minimalistic marketing strategies, the design trend seems to be showing no signs of fading anytime soon. On the one hand, just about everyone and their uncle is using minimalist designs these days, but on the other, it’s highly effective nevertheless.
Minimalist business cards should of course refrain from having too much clutter. Maximise white space (or whatever other colour you have as a background) and only include the most important information, written concisely. This could be, for example, your name, title/business name, and contact details.
Since the idea is to be as conservative as possible with text, it’s worthwhile spending the time to look into font styles, font sizes, and font colours to get the best effect since they’re the only noteworthy elements of the card. An additional tip to conserve space is to simply have your name or business name on one side, using the reverse side for contact details, for example.
In some cases, minimalism is simply too constricting and you may want to create stunning and elaborately detailed business cards to really stand out amongst the sea of other minimalistic business card designs Melbourne.
Maximalism is essentially the opposite of minimalism, whereby you’re looking to add in intricate designs and graphics, perhaps more text than usual, or impressive business cards that literally go outside of the box such as 3D business cards or irregularly-shaped business cards. These latter design choices can be a little hard to have printed en masse, as they may need to be cut to a specific shape. Speak with a print shop employee to see if they can assist you with a specific design.
We’ve all surely heard that “a picture is worth a thousand words,” and you probably couldn’t (nor would you want to) squeeze a thousand words onto a little business card, so why not opt for vibrant and meaningful photographs that convey a core message?
The possibilities are endless when it comes to selecting the right photograph, and you could just as easily use cartoons or animated graphics as well in order to connect with other potential customers or clients. For example, a real estate agent can showcase one of their most beautiful and presentable properties. It’s immediately clear what the message is, especially if there’s a “For Sale” sign on the photograph, for example. Just complement it with your name, “real estate agent,” and contact details at the very most.
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