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April 26, 2009
Business card excellence (and horror)
- "Screw die-cutting. Forget about foil, popups, or UV spot lamination. THESE business cards have two ingredients: MEAT AND LASERS." Oh, hell yeah. [Via]
- Equally aggro, far less cool: "Your business card is crap." (Is this guy for real? Hard to tell.)
- Assorted kickassery is on display in Francesco Muganai's round-up of "the best 65 business cards of the year."
- More than meets the eye:
- Dan Ross, publisher/apparent vintage Nissan fan, invites you to cruise off with his card.
- Core77's latest 1-Hour Design Challenge features a business card that transforms into 3D glasses.
- Not overwhelmed yet? Card Observer will soon solve that problem.
Comments
Back in the 80s, I had a studio in LA next to a famous letterpress printer. He showed me his work, pretty amazing stuff. I asked how much it cost, he said $1 per impression. One of the cards was 5 spot colors, so they cost $5 each. I told him you could probably make a bigger impression by writing your info on a five dollar bill. He didn't see the humor in that remark.. ha.
Coincidentally, a few weeks later, I met the guy who had the $5 cards and he gave me one. I decided to mess with him a bit, so I pocketed it without taking much notice. He was crestfallen.
My favorite is this wirehead card from Evil Mad Science. Soldering iron available separately.
Just curious, has anyone ever seen a study that connects such lovely business cards with more actual business? Do not get me wrong, making a cool business card can be a reward in itself, but I also would like to see if it leads to gaining or retaining customers.
Joel Bauer is hilarious. The video on his homepage looks like he's holding the camera himself, up close with a wide angle lens. If not he obviously can't afford to pay a video guy who owns a tripod or has a clue.
Then he's so sure of himself he won't let you see any video of him doing what he claims he's the best at... ie public speaking, until you give him all your details.
He 'may' have a clue offline (although it doesn't look that way) but online he has no idea what he's doing.