Minimal Business Card Design
Business card design is a tricky art. It’s a fairly constrained space, but that’s what design is all about, right? I’m ordering a personal set of moo mini cards. These are small, two sided prints. One side contains an image, and the other contains contact information. On the image side, I’m putting snippets of travel photography. The other side is by default a conventional list of contact information, but moo conveniently allows it to be replaced by a custom image.
Rather than having each field separately labeled, I tried to uncover as much information as possible within my email address. Hidden inside are my first name, last name, website, and twitter account! Here’s a minimal design concept that tries to break it down.
In my case, my email address contains all relevant info except the phone number which I don’t want to include anyway. I hope that this simple idea can inspire you to come up with something more polished. Looking forward to what you come up with!
P.S. Thanks for the help, Jenn!
23 comments:
Moo cards makes our lives easier, definitely. The card looks good. You celebrate the most important information – your email – but where is your name?
Seems unnecessary to label the email address. Maybe you can use the space to draw out your name instead.
Looks cool though. Clever!
Love it.
Thanks guys.
Rebeca, I figured first and last name were obvious. Brett, In retrospect so is email
I would be more likely to guess that you were named Boris Mus based on the card as is.
Good point, Alex. Maybe a |—- last name —-| bar instead of the email bar would be more useful.
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Love the card. I had little moo cards like that, but people kept complaining that it was too hard to read. Next time I order cards, I’m going to do something like this.
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Great~ Idea~!!!!!!! I love this design.
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Thanks everyone for the positive feedback.
@steve What about it exactly? I prefer .com
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Coool! Instead of your name you can put your mobile phone.
I’ll try not to copy you… but it will be hard
Hard to not copy. Love it !!!
Thanks for this great idea. I’ve used it in our card (along with a QR code on the back). This post is mentioned as the inspiration.
http://blog.eyesandfeet.com/2010/08/our-qr-code-enabled-business-card-and.html