Comments on: Wowing Up the Standard Business Card http://designbyfirgs.com/blog/2009/12/wowing-up-the-standard-business-card/ Free Photoshop and Internet Design Goodies Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:12:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Phrogie http://designbyfirgs.com/blog/2009/12/wowing-up-the-standard-business-card/comment-page-1/#comment-2406 Phrogie Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:40:40 +0000 http://designbyfirgs.com/blog/?p=2875#comment-2406 RE: #4... you'd be surprised how often I get business card orders with a ton of text on it. Not contact information so much as folks thinking that a business card should also be a resume, or sell sheet. After all, that's what the contact information is there for, so people can call and ask you questions about what it is you do. Seriously, I can fit all that information on there, but just because I can, doesn't mean you should. Another thing that's interesting of late, as colour gets cheaper and cheaper to produce, the trend is for folks to go all blown full colour on their business cards. Which means that full colour cards don't quite stand out the way they used to. I'm actually relieved to create a one or two colour card nowadays... because they're not as common any more, -those- stand out. This is the same with thermography (raised ink) versus flat printing... Not long ago, raised ink was the standard, and if you saw a flat printed card, it was unusual. Now, because of full colour prices being lower than they used to be, you don't see quite as many thermography cards out there. Overall, a good article, Firgs. A lot of good ideas there. RE: #4… you’d be surprised how often I get business card orders with a ton of text on it. Not contact information so much as folks thinking that a business card should also be a resume, or sell sheet. After all, that’s what the contact information is there for, so people can call and ask you questions about what it is you do.

Seriously, I can fit all that information on there, but just because I can, doesn’t mean you should.

Another thing that’s interesting of late, as colour gets cheaper and cheaper to produce, the trend is for folks to go all blown full colour on their business cards. Which means that full colour cards don’t quite stand out the way they used to. I’m actually relieved to create a one or two colour card nowadays… because they’re not as common any more, -those- stand out.

This is the same with thermography (raised ink) versus flat printing… Not long ago, raised ink was the standard, and if you saw a flat printed card, it was unusual. Now, because of full colour prices being lower than they used to be, you don’t see quite as many thermography cards out there.

Overall, a good article, Firgs. A lot of good ideas there.

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