The first thing you hand someone is your business card, so make sure it is customized to fit your company's image. non-custom die cut cards can severely devalue your business in the eyes of the consumer. Having a well
designed business card will help you build your brand and attract new customers. This post showcases unique and creative custom shaped business cards. Your custom card may be the only thing a customer has to judge you by, so make it count! Die cut Business Cards are a outcome of this innovation. Cheap business cards never came with so much extra value like this. Die Cut Business Cards are diverse from that same old square business card.
20 Die Cut Business Cards Designs for Inspiration
1. Sydney’s Cakes Designed by Dustin K. Friesen
“These cards were designed for Sydney Hursey – a fresh, new baker of cakes who created the mind-blowing cupcakes for my own wedding.
Being still in humble start-up stages, Sydney was on a very tight budget for these cards. I set out to to create a circular card, appropriate to the fact that a plethora baked goods are indeed circular. I designed a logotype intended to feel retro, cheerful and fun to convey her own stylings and personality and tried to choose a color palette to reinforce that as well.”
2. Howler Designed by Priest + Grace | Printer: Studio on Fire
“Designed by Priest + Grace for Howler magazine, these oversize business cards are an amazing example of what a good design and a little tonal ink can do. Howler magazine is a quarterly publication for soccer enthusiasts in North America, so it only made sense for these cards to reference the size and color of actual penalty cards used in soccer.
There are several production techniques we used to successfully produce these cards. First, instead of printing all of the information blind we used a tonal ink color (a red ink on the red, yellow on the yellow). When something is printed blind it relies solely on good lighting conditions to be legible. Our solution is to print using a tonal ink, which creates just enough contrast between the artwork and the paper to make your contact information visible. Secondly, these cards were printed with fronts and backs up on the same sheet, duplexing the sheet after printing. This allowed us to run a heavy impression on press but then conceal the impression show through by duplexing the sheet back to itself.
The red cards are printed on Mohawk Via Scarlet Vellum 80C (duplexed to make 160C) and the yellow cards are on French Poptone Lemon Drop 100C (duplexed to make 200C).”
3. Anh & Joe Wedding Designed by Matter Strategic Design
“My sister-in-law requested a wedding invite that was “not frilly and gross” and I took it from there. 4 postcards (3 for the invite and 1 for the thank you card), a modern colour palette, clean typography and a playful die cut did the trick.”
4. Aliensdesign Designed by Aliensdesign
“An original, foldable business card created for Aliendesign advertising agency. The form of megaphone suggests the objectives of the company – communication, information, advertising by making things louder.”
5. Matthew Hole Designed by Matthew Hole
“My personal business cards are printed onto 350gsm bright yellow card with a cut out logo. The logo and holes are a reference to my surname.”
6. Jimmy’s Iced Coffee Designed by Interabang
“Jimmy’s mission is to bring proper off-the-shelf iced coffee to the people of the United Kingdom and beyond. Launched in Selfridges and Harvey Nichols then rolled out across the UK’s supermarkets, shops and festivals.”
7. Pino Designed by BOND
“The store concept for interior decoration shop Pino is based on its name, which means a ‘pile’ or a ‘stack’ in Finnish. That is taken visually into the new logo and the design of the shop fixtures. The interior design concept, with its subtle palette, works as a neutral background for the fresh, colourful visual identity and products.”
8. Bang Your Own Drum Designed by The Consult
“Recently our long-time copywriting collaborators Bang Your Own Drum asked The Consult to develop their new brand look and feel. Our thinking centred on referencing the name and hinting to their services – we achieved this with a drumstick pencil and drum skin business cards giving Bang Your Own Drum an identity that’s easily heard.”
9. H® Designed by Hyperlocaldesign
“Reduction of materials such as ink, water and paper reduce carbon emission. Besides, it saves money wasted on mailing . Reducing is the fastest way to reach simplicity. Reduce your printings but with the best quality ever. Founded on these thoughts, Hélio Rosas company graphic identity, the H®, was developed.”
10. Sòlas Distillery Designed by Archrival
“Three gentlemen driven with a dream of starting a premium craft distillery approached us to make Sòlas Distillery a branded reality. The innovative distillery uses one-of-a-kind techniques to create top shelf spirits like none other (just ask us about a particular Friday night). The goal was to meld innovation, expertise and small-batch craft care into one identity. You see? Archrival makes dreams come true!”
11. Smooth Ambler Designed by Archrival
“Greenbrier County, Appalachia is home to hard-working, independent people who soak their souls in a leisurely pace of life. Details beat deadlines and quality trumps quantity. Here, is where you’ll find a craft distillery named Smooth Ambler Spirits. Archrival developed the name and branding to celebrate the historic region and this unique way of life.”
12. Dr. Melissa Carr Designed by Rethink
“Dr. Melissa Carr practices traditional Chinese medicine. She specializes in treatments using acupuncture, Chinese herbs, nutrition, tui na massage, western herbs and supplements, and lifestyle changes.”
13. Cement Solutions Designed by Flipp
“Like any business card design, the intention was to create a card that was memorable, useful and wouldn’t just get thrown away or discarded. It also had to resonate with the target audience and the nature of the business. Cement Solutions is a small business that work to help ensure the environmental clean up of one aspect of the drilling process in the oil field. It’s a tough work place and the concept for the business card really needed to reflect that. After all, who doesn’t want a cold refreshing drink at the end of a day of hard work.”
14. Flywheel Designed by Nicole Kraieski
15. Franco Caligiuri Designed by Rethink
“Ideally, you can trust your financial advisor to sell before a downturn and buy stocks before they go up. And so, a double-sided business card to communicate this dual promise.”
16. Benton Brothers Designed by Rethink
“This business card for Benton Brothers Fine Cheese shop was die-cut from a paper stock with a smooth, almost waxy texture, so it looks and feels like a real piece of cheese.”
17. La Charcuterie Designed by Rethink
“La Charcuterie is a deli/restaurant hybrid well known around Vancouver for serving up sandwiches filled with deli meats. To play off this, business cards were created to look like cold cuts. They were strung in netting similar to the way salami and other cured meats are hung in delis. Finally, we printed the letterhead and envelopes on butcher paper— the same paper they wrap their sandwiches in.”
18. PlaidLab Designed by PlaidLab
“These over sized plaid pattern business cards were designed by our good friend Mark Saunders for his new solo creative venture PlaidLab. They use some great vibrant colors and the overprinting inks make rich and saturated secondary colors.
We letterpress printed them on heavy 220lb Cover Crane Lettra Pearl White. We usually run smaller custom business card orders two cards up on a small press sheet, so it was easy to provide some variety by including two different patterns. The magenta color is the same on both cards, but a color change from orange to blue on one plate gave the cards even more variety. One thing we did to keep the quality of the type crisp and punchy was to print it as a separate pass. By printing the same color in two passes we could run the large graphic plaid with heavy ink density and light ink density on the type. Mark was shooting for something about the size of an iphone, so the final cards were round corner die cut to an over sized 4.5 x 2.25.”
19. Crop Designed by Rethink
“This corporate identity brings a sense of style and whimsy to Red Deer in the heart of Alberta’s wheat belt. Pieces include business cards, free haircut coupons, style guides, gift bags and even rain bonnets.”
20. Cwmni Da Designed by Elfen
“The brief was to communicate a young, bright, fun creative television production company. A full range of colours was used for the stationery and ID, the business cards still get great reactions for the client.”