Business Cards Land

Raise your hand if you just started singing the lyrics to that Billy Joel song?  Yep, just about every single one of you, and if you’re at all like me you’re stuck on the part that beings with “Harry Truman, Doris Day…”  What can you do?  Nevertheless, today we DO have a hot business card to bring up and it actually could start a fire.  That’s right, a matchbook themed business card, and I have to say, it’s one of the most fun and unique business cards I’ve chronicled on this site!

Check it out above.  Look at the genius design.  Look at the attention to detail.  I know we JUST got done saying that simple is amazingly key, but sometimes, sometimes you hit the nail squarely on the head with a business card like this.  These are quite literally, matchbooks.  While inside there are not matches, but little cartoon versions of matches, the whole entire rest of the card is exactly a matchbook, down to the tiny staple in the bottom holding it all together.  On top of that, the entire card is themed to look like it just literally fell out of a 1950’s diner or bowling alley, and the results are pretty spectacular.

Bottom line, these might be some of my favorite cards that I’ve found while researching this site.  Everything comes together perfectly and I can guarantee that if someone handed you this card, you wouldn’t be tossing it away, giving it away or forgetting about it…this is a card you’d show everyone else, and show off For them.  Perfectly done and a perfect business card.

Popularity: 25% [?]

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Happy New Year, everyone!  Hope it’s off to a great start for you – as usual, Tyler and I will keep delivering some great business card ideas that are sure to help you in the coming year!

Got another idea for you – another way to use business cards.  I was invited to several charity events and even church Christmas events in the past month.  Several of those event tickets/invitations were actually printed on business card paper.   Here’s one of them – the gentleman runs a charitable foundation and had his contact info on the other side of the card:

Business Card Event Ticket

Don’t think this idea needs a lot of explanation – it’s just another illustration of the fact that a “business card” doesn’t have to be used in a traditional way.  The size, portability and affordability makes it ideal for many other uses.

Popularity: 6% [?]

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Welcome back!  The holidays are officially over, can you believe it?!  That’s right, Christmas has come and gone, Boxers Day is over, New Year’s Eve has passed and we’re officially in the thick of 2010.  That said, we’re back into the swing of things and to kick things off for your first official business card related post of the new year and the first card we’re highlighting is quite impressive! 

It’s a new year, yes, but that doesn’t mean old ideas are dead and gone.  An idea we’ve mentioned time and time again on this blog is that sometimes the simpler you go, the more impressive the result.  Well, when it comes to simple, it’s hard to get much more simple than a fold down the paper, now isn’t it?  That’s what this guy did and made it so when the card was folded together it simply spelled SCOTT, unfold it and more details, information and business can be found inside, but when it’s closed, it’s a work of simple genius.  Simple.  Simple always wins.

It’s something to think about as we go forward in this new decade…I have a pretty sneaking suspicion that as the years roll by, things will continue to evolve from complex, overly processed and busy to much more simple, much more controlled and much more natural.  Gone are the days, at least I hope, where everything is as busy and loud as possible.  I’m hoping 2010 ushers in a new age of design simplicity and the smart evolution of marketing, from print ads all the way down to the old staple, business cards.  Let’s make it happen!

Popularity: 30% [?]

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