Share your best business card design tip?

Czapski said:
Thank you guys. Funny story, I shattered my arm snowboarding in February so I had alot of time on my hands. I just searched google and YouTube for things I liked and started watching and doing tutorials.

5 months later I now am ready to launch, just need some more projects for before and after pics.

A big thing is to keep your logo consistent (website, business cards and for me vehicle logo)

I know a fair amount of people who work design, selling, marketing etc and all the tips from them seem to be paying off.
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The front part of your card is beautiful btw, good job man...
 
2shiny said:
I think you misunderstood. I meant, why not usethe same background as on the verso side for your website background, but use it as a website background faded 60% to keep reading easy
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You are right, I did misunderstand.

That's an idea, I will try a faded look to see how it comes out when I am ready to work on the visual aspect. I have 5 days off work this week! So I should be able to get a lot done during the week. 2 Detailings planned and if it can rain or something I will have time for indoor stuff like website design and business registrations.
 
AeroCleanse said:
By best tip would be to hire a professional graphic artist.
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I don't know about that one. I did hire people in the past for producing graphics for me and I was ALWAYS very unsatisfied with what they did and ended up doing the work myself. There are so many incompetant graphic artists out there it's insane. The part I love most is when I talk about technical aspects with graphic artists and I know more able it than they do. I come from the computer sales side so they should know Photoshop in lot more détails than I do, but plenty of them don't ;(
 
Calendyr said:
I don't know about that one. I did hire people in the past for producing graphics for me and I was ALWAYS very unsatisfied with what they did and ended up doing the work myself. There are so many incompetant graphic artists out there it's insane. The part I love most is when I talk about technical aspects with graphic artists and I know more able it than they do. I come from the computer sales side so they should know Photoshop in lot more détails than I do, but plenty of them don't ;(
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Then you haven't found a professional. The graphic artist I work with doesn't use Photoshop he uses Illustrator.
 
Graphic artists should use both. Illustrator is great for some things and really bad for others. Same goes for Photoshop. A true Professional needs to be able to master both. I never liked using Illustator myself. There are ways to do what Illustator does with Photoshop but it's more difficult and time consuming. On the other hand, there are things you can do in Photoshop that Illustrator simply cannot do.

The big advantage of Illustrator, especially for logos, is that you can shrink or enlage them to any size without loosing quality. Also an Illustator file can be opened by Photoshop to create a perfect image of any size.
 
Photoshop is not as good at making scalable objects, it's a matter of Tools. As I said it can be done but it's much more time consuming. If Photoshop could do all Illustator could, they would not produce 2 separate softwares.
 
Does the sentence below sound good for a business card of a mobile detailer?

"Your exclusive car detailer."

I prefer something simple and clear to explain that i offer mobile detailing service, as i'm not putting the job title on the card.

Please shine some lights here? Feed back please

Thank you.
 
Calendyr said:
Photoshop is not as good at making scalable objects, it's a matter of Tools. As I said it can be done but it's much more time consuming. If Photoshop could do all Illustator could, they would not produce 2 separate softwares.
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The term for scalable graphics is vector art.

The advantage I felt using Illustrator, was doing logos and my college magazine, although, I switched to InDesign midway to complete the magazine. And if you combine a wacom tablet, then it gets even more easier to work faster.

Photoshop is great only for photos - and some other effects, but creating cards and other business stuff, its better to do using Illustrator. As you can design the logo only once and just keep resizing based on your needs such as business cards, tshirts, aprons etc.


And Bridge makes it easy to work across multiple platforms on the Adobe suite. So create a design in one and use it in another app.

To anyone facing difficulties using these softwares, Id advise getting Training from Lynda.com. Ive learnt most of my softwares based on my needs from that site. Excellent and vfm site.

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spinz said:
Does the sentence below sound good for a business card of a mobile detailer?

"Your exclusive car detailer."

I prefer something simple and clear to explain that i offer mobile detailing service, as i'm not putting the job title on the card.

Please shine some lights here? Feed back please

Thank you.
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I am just a hobbyist, but when I read

"Your exclusive car detailer."

It sounds like you are talking to me, which IMO is a great thing.

I like it, other fellow Detailers feel free to chime in.

Good Luck and Thank You,

Art
 
hernandez.art13 said:
This card looks great... I like how it states what you work on.

Luxory, Exotics, Sports

Hope you took before an after pictures. Lets see! :)
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Haha I have a few after pictures of some luxury cars, but not really any before pictures D: I will be performing paint correction on a 2007 Acura TL with some major swirls. I will definitely take some before & after + 50/50 shots of this. My neighbor has an F360 and also a old school Pantera. I will target him after I get some good results from the TL. Hopefully that will open me up to more exotics ;)
 
Been screwing around with some business card designs and found this thread extremely helpful! I could use a little feedback/advice on a business card I'm working on.
 
I prefer the minimalist look as well.

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I also believe in less is more. Here is my business card layout , the rear was printed in black and white only though as they wanted to double my price for making the back colored too.

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Rear



I am pretty sure that many of my future clients won't have an idea of what the Facebook and Instagram icons even mean , but I am sure that there will be people who recognize the icons and make use of them.

Ps. My pages is created but not yet functional as I am still in the early start-up phase
 
Here are my updated cards. The photo here does not show how clear, crisp, glossy, and slick they are. I love them! Much more simpler than my previous ones I posted. Not bad for less than $30 for a 1000 cards!

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Deranged_9n3 said:
I also believe in less is more. Here is my business card layout , the rear was printed in black and white only though as they wanted to double my price for making the back colored too.

Front




Rear



I am pretty sure that many of my future clients won't have an idea of what the Facebook and Instagram icons even mean , but I am sure that there will be people who recognize the icons and make use of them.

Ps. My pages is created but not yet functional as I am still in the early start-up phase
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I like that alot.....here, less does look good to me.

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A.P.A.D. said:
Here are my updated cards. The photo here does not show how clear, crisp, glossy, and slick they are. I love them! Much more simpler than my previous ones I posted. Not bad for less than $30 for a 1000 cards!

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The logo is cool...website is kinda long.

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