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15/9/2013

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Hi and welcome to my blog. I hope to post on here regularly. For my first post I thought I'd show you the business card I designed for myself.
Creative Business Card
It's very true what they say, designing for yourself is the hardest project of all! After deciding on my company's name of Destination Creative, I created my logo (which I will cover in another post soon). Then it was onto the job of my business card. After looking through lots of web articles and blog posts on creative business cards I knew I wanted something a bit different to reflect me and my style.

With the name of Destination Creative I got on to thoughts of travel and started to think about vintage style luggage labels but with a bit of a fresh modern twist to it.

I took a scan of a manila card background and gave it a worn faded edge effect. For text I used the wonderful Corki font, available free here and used my logo on the reverse. I put my website URL on an orange background to echo the colours of my logo and then drew a brown circle to look like a hole punch reinforcement on both sides.

My cards were printed by my local printer on some really nice quality heavy 350gsm uncoated stock. They also kindly drilled a hole in each one for me. My wife brought a reel of jute twine and sat there looping a length through each card to complete the luggage label effect (bless her!). The twine comes off in one pull leaving a standard size business card to keep in your wallet (creativity is nothing if it's not practical too). And that's it, my cards are now complete!

When I give them out I always get great comments and people seem to really like them. I think first impressions are so important and your business card should always say something about your personality as well as who you are.

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