You definitely won’t want to throw away these wonderfully inventive business cards.
How many times have you walked away from an event clutching a handful of business cards but not being able to distinguish one from another, let alone remember who gave them to you?
When you work in a creative field, people expect something a little more distinctive. And these nine artists’ business cards manage to grab people’s attention in a variety of inspiring and inventive ways.
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This bespoke illustration serves as a great showcase for doujin artist DestinyBlue
An anime artist from the UK, DestinyBlue created this beautiful piece of bespoke art for her latest business card. She’s since gone on to use the same illustration as a banner poster at the conventions where she sells print of her work. “People often ask is if the flowers are actually illuminated with glow paint or lit up with LEDs XD,” she says. “They aren't, but it really can look that way in low light, so I'm very pleased with how this turned out.”
Fantasy artist Alec Fencer created an intense lupine vision for his latest business card
Alec Fencer is a German artist, fantasy creature designer and world builder, who’s just completed the first volume of his crowdfunded graphic novel, Myre. He created this business card design to hand out at Eurofurence (“Europe's largest furry convention”) and describes it as “an exaggerated vent of my inspiration”.
This quirky business card illustration gives you an instant idea of what Jessica Madorran is all about
Jessica Madorran is a freelance character/visual development artist based in Texas who creates art prints, books and T-shirts, primarily using Photoshop. She designed these stunning business cards for last year’s Dallas Fan Expo.
Filipino artist Roslee’s business card features her original manga character Pinku
Roslee, aka Rosuuri, is a 22-year old multimedia artist, based in The Philippines who works in Clip Studio Pain and Photoshop to create illustrations, comics, concept art and character designs. This latest business card features her original character, Pinku, from her comic Alice's Cross.
Jane Labowitch’s business cards provide no doubt that she’s a full-time Etch A Sketch artist
“People tend to guffaw when I tell them that I am a full-time, bona fide Etch A Sketch artist,” says Jane Labowitch, who goes by the monicker Princess Etch A Sketch. But that’s exactly what the 25-year-old graduate of Chicago’s American Academy of Art does, creating one-of-a-kind, totally permanent works of art on an Etch A Sketch. These unique business cards were developed with help from her digital graphics teacher, and use Futura Medium, a font available in Adobe Illustrator. Learn more about their creation here.
The Malaysian artist created a bespoke illustrative logo for his business card
Haizeel bin Hashnan is a Malaysian artist working in the film and animation industry, who’s currently working as a junior compositor at Glue Studios. He created this bespoke illustrative logo for his personal business card, which he hands out to clients of his freelance artwork.
There’s a different design on each of Australian artist Kass Hall’s business cards
Kass Hall is a mixed-media artist and writer, based in Melbourne, Australia. With so many pieces in her portfolio, she decided to use Moo.com’s Printfinity service to feature a selection of her visual journal pages on the back on each business card. You can see more of her cards here.
Italian-born artist Paola Bazz brings his love of recycling to his business cards
Paola Bazz is an Italian-born and artist now based in Manchester, England. The use of recycled material, such as printed-paper, cardboard and wood, characterises much of his artistic production, and this grunge-inspired business card was printed on the back of a recycled Metro ticket.
Who wouldn’t want to keep this quirkily absurdist design by Luke Drozd?
Luke Drozd is a British artist who creates sculptures, drawings, gig posters and art prints. According to his bio, “he is for art that is odd and joyous and things that are the right side of wrong”. And that comes across clearly in this distinctive business card design, which is at once quirkily absurdist and morbidly disturbing.
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Tom May is an award-winning journalist and editor specialising in design, photography and technology. Author of the Amazon #1 bestseller Great TED Talks: Creativity, published by Pavilion Books, Tom was previously editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine. Today, he is a regular contributor to Creative Bloq and its sister sites Digital Camera World, T3.com and Tech Radar. He also writes for Creative Boom and works on content marketing projects.
