Slightly Adnormal, Regularly Shaped Business Card Designs

While these first seventeen business cards aren’t exactly normal in the traditional sense, they do contain properties of normal-sized cardstock, which lets your prospects store them in their wallets and rolodexes without much hassle. As an aside: does anyone actually use a rolodex, anymore?










Completely Different, Unusual and Obvious Card Concepts

Completely out of the ordinary, these twenty card concepts take branding one step further with unusual designs that use art to immediately convey the type of business they provide. From ticket stubs to the chest physician’s obvious lung-capacity testing balloon, try to figure out what each business does just by looking at their image.




















Unique Card Holders that Grab Your Attention:

Like golf? How about Hello Kitty? While this section steers away from actual business card design, it shows a glimpse of how creative people can successfully grab the attention of business prospects by using unique, eye-catching card holding containers in their office or trade booth.







Creating a Useful Card that Serves a Secondary Purpose:

As mentioned above, the primary purpose of a business card is to brand yourself, and then possibly convert your networking skills into fruitful business relationships. These last four useful biz cards pull double-duty, providing utilities such as the Japanese bottle opener, or Kevin Mitnick’s lock-picking tools. To further prove the power of this type of branding, recall how many times you have saw the following business card being promoted on the web in the past two years: