Creative business cards – to be remembered
Good business cards reflect your company’s character and strengths. For instance, you can use unusual layouts to immediately come across as creative, forward-thinking and open-minded. You will find inspiration for unique business cards here.
Time for the trade fair. The visitors are crowding through the aisles, shoulder to shoulder. They shuffle from one stand to the next and are besieged with arguments, promotional gifts and a wide range of image brochures, info sheets and countless business cards. To stand out among this horde of competitors, you need advertising material that catches people’s attention right away.
That is why you should place particular value on high-quality papers and a creative, unique design for your business cards. In the end, business cards are frequently the first form of contact between you and potential customers. No matter which sector you work in, you can design your contact cards with exclusive materials, striking finishing’s, and a bit of creativity to make sure you leave a positive and lasting impression on your interlocutors.
Examples of creative business cards
To give you some inspiration, the graphic artists at FLYERALARM have designed smart business cards for fictitious companies in a wide range of industries. You will also find some information about the product configuration under the images, as well as tips and important pointers for creating printing data.
The customers at a hairdressing salon could get creative with these business cards and use craft scissors to give the avatar a chic hairdo without further ado. On the back of the business card, there is still enough space for contact information and opening times. You do not need take anything in particular into consideration when creating the printing data. You can use full-surface lamination or coatings to give your layout an additional touch of elegance.
These business cards for dentists are sure to stand out. On the left, you can see a simple, reserved design where both the logo in the middle and the lettering “Dental Care” are finished in silver hot foil. On the right, the graphic designer has chosen a business card made of transparent polypropylene that shows off the dental impression quite nicely.
These examples are fine options for companies in the fitness and health industry. The design on the left features black lettering on a dark grey background. To create a visual highlight, the black lettering was finished with partial UV coating. The cards on the right were designed as folding business cards for an imaginary yoga studio. When opened up, this model looks like a yogi in the position “Downward-Facing Dog”.
Business cards can also stand out right away even without finishing. Be bold and use striking colours. Depending on the industry, you can also use strong patterns in the background.
It is also a good idea for handicraft businesses to make lasting impressions on customers, not only through professional work, but also by using unique business card designs. The business card on the left was designed for an electronics company. The show-stopper: The continuous line is coated with relief lacquer to create a unique haptic effect. Since relief coating cannot be applied all the way to the edge, the lacquer finishing starts with the letter “E” in “Elektro Otto”. On the right, you can see a design that was developed for a fictive floor tiler. Here, the designers worked with a silver hot foil that is supposed to represent the joints worked by the scraper.
Stand out with unique designs or chic finishes
The business card on the left was created for a goldsmith and therefore has a rather restrained design. However, the cards feature an optical and haptic highlight, due to the gold foil used. Ground wood pulp card and a letterpress finish were selected for the business card to the right, which was designed for an imaginary tyre service. The die stamping makes the tyre tracks appear three-dimensional, and customers will remember that.
The chic leather shoe was created with shining UV coating for these business cards for an imaginary shoemaker. The same design was also used to print a shoe-polishing set. Handed out to especially good customers, this reinforces the memory effect.
Inspired? Then get designing!
Do you already have ideas for great creative business cards? Fantastic, because that means there’s nothing standing in the way of your successful image. By the way, if you’re not a proven pro in dealing with layout programmes, we are happy to provide you with our experts: personal consultation and layout service at a fixed price.
