Business Card Design: 100+ Creative Examples, Useful Tutorials and Templates

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As the world gets flatter each day, business and start-up are blooming like mushrooms. This can only lead to one possible situation – competitions are tightening up. There’s only one chance to give a good first impression to your potential clients. Business card speaks for a brand and they are a good and effective tool to impress and maintain relationship with clients. However if your business card is plain and dull, it can only tell so much of your company’s image.

There are no rules for creative card design. Custom shapes & cuts, spot UV, matte finishing etc are all playing factors but the crucial part is always an eye-catching design, whether it’s graphical, typographical or just simple great ideas.

In today’s article, we proudly present a series of truly creative business card design together with tutorials and template that you can start with. Here’s a list of a collection of 100+ Creative Business Cards, Templates and Tutorials. Full list after jump.

Examples of Creative Business Card

Wood, Plastic and Metal. These unorthodox materials for a business card can draw susbtantial attention to anyone looking at it for the first time. The texture itself feels unique too, and all these can leave behind a good impression for the company.

sarahmedia

viewzi

aen

dreamten

logeen

Standard size, just creative designs. Unsurpingly, visually captivating designs imprint on a person’s memory deeper than dull or plain designs. A creative tagline that gives people food for thought can also be remembered better.

chris

struck

fez

Jay Kwong

Lisa Welge

subcity

Cheryl Griffin

Obsessive Behavior

biglove

cutpaste

whyisbox

Doing the Google thing – If you are pretty confident in the ranking of certain keywords, why not try these? Here are several examples.
bamf

dallas printing

jilee

boston web studio

Minimalist. A minimalist approach to business card design attempts to focus a person’s attention to where it matters most: The company’s or organization’s name or logo. Despite such simplicity, the design can still be creatively done through careful arrangements of wordings and logo.

bryon

gist

good

shoe

pretty green

render inc

nagy

frolick

fresh01

dave

frederick wan

sa

brilliancy

elemental

blissett

mayes

aaron

pacifica

February London

dion

Creative cuts & custom shapes. Not your usual 3.5 x 2 inches business card, but definetely rocks!

chris fisher

mogibo

lindsey

acc

java

cutting edge

chef

box office

bridge

davide

mixtape

1scale1

igs

nation builder

axiom

orient

ordered list

diesel design

reactor

orderin

personal

impact salon

seat

lion in oil

verbena

sliced orange

lunar

studio nine

Free Card Templates

If budget is a concern, here are some business card templetes you can start with, but do check with respective owners though. These templates come in Photoshop PSD and Corel Draw CDR format. You can convert .CDR to .PSD.

Black Card
by elhadibrahimi
elhadibrahimi

Modern business card
by psdgraphics
Modern business card

Business card template design

PnP consult
by logotypes
PnP consult

Gold and Black Business Card
by elhadibrahimi
Gold and Black Business Card

Codex
by CODEX007
codex

Business Card Template
by alpha-100
alpha-100

Tutorials to Design your own card

It’s always utmost satifying if your business card is a creation of yourself. Here are some tutorials to give you an idea how to design a business card right from scratch.

Business Card layout
by alfoart
AlexandraF

Design a Print Ready Business Card for Designers
by Chris Spooner
Follow this walkthrough in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign to create your own double sided business card design, resulting in a print-ready file to send to your favoured print firm.

spoongraphics

Grungy Business Card
by luxa
This tutorial will walk you through setting up a vertical grungy business card template, front to back and ready to print.

luxa grunge business card

Print-Ready Business Card Using Only Photoshop
by Collis
Design up a simple business card in Photoshop and get it ready for print with crop marks and bleed.

Print-Ready Business Card

Cardboard And Torn Paper Business Card
by pshero
Create a nice cardboard effect and play with a neat torn edge effect.

pshero

Business Card Design Project Walkthrough
by Chris Spooner

Making your business cards dynamic in Illustrator
by Veerle Pieters
(Illustrator tutorial) Smarter way to have your business card print-ready.

business_cards_dynamic

Further Readings

Last but not lease, we’ll leave you with some interesting and useful articles on business card design.

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Posted by hongkiat in Inspiration , at 07.16.09

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Comments

  1. Haavard Aurstad July 16th, 2009

    Great collection man.Twitter & thumbs up!

    Reply
  2. Henry July 16th, 2009

    Nice round up! Not sure if google would be ok with someone using their logo on a business card. I made a round up as well thought I should share it http://ffffffive.com/inspiration/75-immaculate-business-cards/

    Reply
  3. Journal July 16th, 2009

    Awesome Collection.

    My favourite is the Subcityart Card!

    Thanks for sharing this!

    Reply
  4. christian July 16th, 2009

    Great list! Thanks for the inspiration!

    Check out my Die cut card, as well as how and where to create your own die cut business card.

    http://printedproof.com/printing/how-and-where-to-create-die-cut-business-cards/

    Reply
  5. Mariusz July 16th, 2009

    Hey, cool, thanks for featuring my design (the Lunar Logic Polska one, with the “1″)! To be honest, that are not really business cards, but planning poker cards (used to estimate project flow) but there was no “print” category on Creattica when I posted it. ;)

    Reply
  6. Money4Invest | Lee July 16th, 2009

    Great and cool look of business cards. I want to get one too.

    Reply
  7. miziology July 16th, 2009

    another good post..i like the google card but i don’t know if it ok we use a google logo? overall nice collection :)

    Reply
  8. shraqs July 16th, 2009

    What a great and huge collection. It’s awesome. Thanks for your hard work on searching for it.

    Reply
  9. panduan bisnis online July 16th, 2009

    oh mas…that’s awsome! Very inspired!

    Reply
  10. Ah Hong July 16th, 2009

    Real cool design! I really love especially the Google one, but wonder what will be the cost to print each :D

    Reply
  11. wallpapers July 16th, 2009

    Looking so professional designs , thanks for sharing

    Reply
  12. Callum Chapman July 16th, 2009

    Great round-up, I wish I had some clients that want to experiment with Spot UV and Diecutting!

    Reply
  13. Vim July 16th, 2009

    all of these cards are awesome, each different in there own way, some of these must have cost a lot to make?

    Reply
  14. business July 16th, 2009

    Wow, thank you. Great design like these also creates word of mouth. People would talk about and share your cards with others.

    Reply
  15. Matt July 16th, 2009

    Great list here, thanks.
    I’ve been trying to design mine for ages and just can;t find what I’m looking for. hopefully this post should help.

    Reply
  16. tobiCOM July 16th, 2009

    Thanks for Inspiration! Beautifull Designs i love them all!

    Reply
  17. yoon see July 16th, 2009

    Cool!
    I love the “pretty green” name card!

    Reply
  18. tabiji July 16th, 2009

    Fantastic! More posts like this, please. +1

    Reply
  19. rich808 July 17th, 2009

    nice designs and ideas for cards

    Reply
  20. Franky July 17th, 2009

    Hey really cool your resources always rock like hell

    Reply
  21. Casper July 17th, 2009

    awesome stuff for graphic designer as i am, and always find beautiful stuff which will help us for make better design after took some better idea as you have in this post, Thanks

    Reply
  22. SyamZone July 17th, 2009

    Awesome…Thank’s for sharing !!!

    Reply
  23. dlv July 17th, 2009

    excellent post Liam !
    some days ago i’ve searched resources to do a personal card…
    this post gonna be in my pocket!
    thanks

    adeux!

    Reply
  24. Gisela July 17th, 2009

    I love to have something like the transparent card. It looks really cool and elegant.

    Reply
  25. anistock July 17th, 2009

    The razor blade design is just brilliant, one card I’d keep in my contacts. Great designs but overall you’d have to question how relevant are business cards in todays world.

    Reply
  26. ginwe July 17th, 2009

    Really good collection

    Reply
  27. jubo July 17th, 2009

    I’m needing some more cards, This page is inspirational, as a glass designer/maker I think the transparent ones with a design on would be great. You’ve got me thinking now, thanx so much for sharing
    jubo

    Reply
  28. Luis July 18th, 2009

    I like the chris burger, very creative, and the transparent ones are cool too. Great collections buddies, if there werent many cards i could post it on my blog giving you all the credit.

    Reply
  29. Fernando July 18th, 2009

  30. blinkky July 18th, 2009

    Very creative. Some look exclusive =)

    Reply
  31. MyCeloteh July 19th, 2009

    wow very creative design, need to ask designer to print this one for me.

    Reply
  32. Maigret July 19th, 2009

    Awesome list ! Some of them are so beautiful… but prices must be high. :(

    Reply
  33. eddie July 20th, 2009

    really nice.thanks

    Reply
  34. Calgary Graphic Design July 20th, 2009

    (repeats to self) I will not redesign my business cards, I will not redesign my business cards… Oh who am I kidding. I have business card lust!

    Reply
  35. business cards printing services July 20th, 2009

    I liked your collection. your site collection is good.

    Reply
  36. Kumar July 22nd, 2009

    Great collection man.

    Reply
  37. Kumar July 22nd, 2009

    But expecting some more designs.
    :)

    Reply
  38. BiB July 22nd, 2009

    Nice collection. I recommend visit http://www.cardonizer.com for more business cards.

    Reply
  39. Megatron July 22nd, 2009

    Does anyone know of any good websites to get stuff printed?

    Reply
  40. Cris July 25th, 2009

    Muy originales parecidas a las de http://www.tarjetascolor.com

    Reply
  41. Rahman July 25th, 2009

    hey awsme design my cards are gettin complements from every where a bsinesscard must be attractive and alll cards here are very much….

    thank u sooo much

    Reply
  42. Kat July 25th, 2009

    Very nice design ideas. Too bad I almost clicked away from your site when at least 3 different voices started blabbing at me. HATE that. Not sure if it’s from the ads or what, but it distracts from what could be an otherwise good site. Don’t know what they said – I muted it immediately. I normally click away…quickly.

    Reply
  43. Millán I. Berzosa July 26th, 2009

    Pretty neat!! ;)

    Reply
  44. omagus July 27th, 2009

    l like the black one..
    thanks for share..!

    Reply
  45. Ivan July 31st, 2009

    All great! Thanks for share…

    Reply
  46. Ricky K. July 31st, 2009

    good idea ….

    Reply
  47. Iannik August 1st, 2009

    Hi all,
    I am a photographer entusiast and I’m looking for someone who realize my business card, if you are interested write me iannik[at]gmail.com

    thank you all

    Reply
  48. 商务卡片网 August 4th, 2009

    Perfect!

    Reply
  49. Jayce August 5th, 2009

    Nicely done. ;)

    Reply
  50. Robin Ng August 5th, 2009

    love the collection! thanks

    Reply
  51. Mike August 6th, 2009

    Hi there.
    A very nice round-up!

    I’ve seen many great collections of business cards online; I wish someone would post a round-up of places to get cards like these printed.

    My local printers only handle full-color, “no frills” cards. I’d love to know where I could get something higher-end like those in this list.

    Thanks again!

    Reply
  52. Kaplang August 7th, 2009

    these are really cool, I love the Google one it made me laugh.

    Reply
  53. chris August 9th, 2009

    Some good examples. :) tx!

    Reply
  54. Ryan August 12th, 2009

    These are awesome, great ideas

    Reply
  55. Xtence August 13th, 2009

    Nice collection, very inspiring !

    Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  56. Jocelyn August 20th, 2009

    I got some plastic cards printed like this at http://www.shortruncards.com . Their minimum qty was only 50 and the quality is amazing!

    Reply
  57. Joe Ndzulo August 22nd, 2009

    Simply Impressive…

    Reply
  58. Hurmus August 25th, 2009

    Great selection!
    You may also like this card – Card soccer:
    http://ultimolayout.blogspot.com/2008/12/minicampo.html
    Thank’s.

    Reply
  59. Yash ch. August 25th, 2009

    I got wonderful collection of business cards at very cheap rate with high quality just in 40 pounds for 500Qty. http://www.design2express.co.uk
    Free Lamination and custom Die cut.
    Thanks!

    Reply
  60. david s. September 9th, 2009

    honestly, you won’t find much better than the company taste of ink studios. their work can be viewed at http://www.tasteofinkstudios.com/portfolio/business-card-design.

    Reply
  61. emily gaiston September 9th, 2009

    seriousLY..! i checked out that site. amazing folio… their biz card design is pretty incredible, but more than that, their business card printing options are the shiz.

    Reply
  62. kanraya September 12th, 2009

    awesome!! good idea(^_^)

    Reply
  63. Pavlos Katsigiorgis September 17th, 2009

    So many ideas.
    So good inspirations.
    Food for mind. Simple Ideas means Great Creations.

    Reply
  64. dheena September 23rd, 2009

    Great D’signs

    Reply
  65. jason harris September 25th, 2009

    really great designs.. this is my favorite design blog, it is strictly for business card design. i just love it and submitted my card just a min ago. they do that featured card of the day deal… http://www.mybusinesscarddesign.com

    Reply
  66. chris September 25th, 2009

    that is ONE EXTREEM collection – thank you very much.
    This one with Google is pretty creative – simple yet catchy :)

    Now I know where to go and bo back again and again for design inspiration

    thx again for very helpfull post.
    bye, chris

    Reply
  67. sunny October 7th, 2009

    So many ideas.
    So good inspirations.

    Reply
  68. Rachel Pisani November 1st, 2009

    i would like a business card created. i have stock photo i could have you use, need it to be designed
    how soon could you give me a proof? how do i email you the photos?

    Reply
  69. Plastic Cards November 4th, 2009

    This is great collection and creative designing of the all cards.

    Reply
  70. plywood india November 9th, 2009

    Great collection of business card with Excellent designs.

    Reply
  71. Corey Haggard November 10th, 2009

    Awesome collection. Very creative designers there, good post!

    Reply
  72. Business Card Templates November 11th, 2009

    Nice collection. Thanks for sharing. May share more business card designs.

    Reply
  73. Raquel November 16th, 2009

    Awesome collection. Thaks for sharing!

    Reply
  74. designfollow November 18th, 2009

    great thank you

    Reply
  75. seo faqs November 21st, 2009

    Thanks for sharing tutorial om business card designs

    Reply
  76. 100+ Creative Business Card Samples December 5th, 2009

    Great list! I like most of them!

    Reply
  77. Alex December 9th, 2009

    Great collection of different business card styles.

    It’s great that you gave out tips too. I’m currently writing about tips on how to make great business card templates myself but ultimately it is true and i do agree that there are no rules for creative card design. The increasing numbers of unconventional and unique out-of-the-box designs prove that.

    I feature some great business card designs on my site too, you should check it out!

    Reply
  78. Basit December 14th, 2009

    i like it,visiting card and i like must album..!!!

    Reply
  79. Online printing December 14th, 2009

    Great collection very helpful post in terms of new good business cards designs thanks for sharing these creative designs with us.

    anyway really good website you have.
    Thanks

    Reply
  80. LinxPrint December 19th, 2009

    These are very cool businesscard designs.

    Reply
  81. Leif David December 30th, 2009

    I love them all! I came up with my own unique business card idea at http://www.PromoBills.com. Instead of handing out a regular business card, I can hand out “Million Dollar Bills” with all my contact info. If you’re Canadian let me know and I can make them for you too and customize them however you want

    Reply
  82. Nick February 3rd, 2010

    the google one was tiiight

    Reply
  83. Yuvaraj February 4th, 2010

    Its very beautiful. i learn how to design visiting cards from this site.
    Thanking you.
    yuvaraj

    Reply
  84. seyahat February 5th, 2010

    Oooow beatiful desings.. Thanks

    Reply
  85. Heath February 25th, 2010

    If anyone is looking for a printer for some of these “premium” style cards we can help. Vivo! Print can do foil, spot-uv, die cut, embossing, etc. and we have great prices. If you are looking for any of these features just let me know (heath@vivoprint.com) and I would love to get you pricing and help in any way. We also have some of the best prices on all types of standard printing (http://www.vivoprint.com). Please don’t hesitate to ask is you have any questions at all. I love looking at these list but I rarely see any links to places to actually buy them. Thanks for the post!

    Reply
  86. Mike February 27th, 2010

    Great die-cuts, especially the human outline version. If these inspire you to try your hand at designing a business care, this site (http://www.businesscards.com/t-specials.aspx) is running giving away free business cards to the best design.

    Reply
  87. poop March 10th, 2010

    what do you think of burlap?

    Reply
  88. Jeff Kee March 17th, 2010

    Half the challenge of these kind of cards is the designer’s skills.

    The other half – finding clients with the budget to produce such quality cards with great features (die cuts, raise/embossing, foiling, etc.). I’m 4 years in business now and I’ve only recently found clients who wanted a fully customized press run. Before that, most clients were small timers who wanted to use gang-run print shops so the specs were standardized, and 4/4 CMYK was the main option, with perhaps silver foiling or spot gloss as an option, nothing much more.

    Reply
  89. Business card templates March 18th, 2010

    Great collection. Some cards are unique and creative.

    Reply

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