would be interesting to find out how much it costs to make some of those.

great designs ..nice work

that’s really a fantastic post ! ! added to my favourite blogs list..

Thats pretty rad. I like the manicurist one the most!

Those are some very innovative designs. Some aren’t very practical to actually use as business cards but very cool non then less!

The “How’s my designing ?” card is from The Chopping Block. choppingblock.com

Great designs, but does anyone know where you would get a design printed onto a special material, like any of the above?

Wow! very good samples.
Hey! we have the same template and the same name jeje
Bytes!!!

great bright ideas! i really love it.

These must be some of the most creatively ULTRA funky business I’ve ever seeen!!! Awesome post…
Like many others I also wonder how many organs that firm had to donate to make that metal looking card…:)
Superb post!

I don’t think very many of these cards will work very well with my CardScan business card scanner! I am amazed at the creativity and possibilities people see in something as common place as a business card – very impressive. However, given my affection for my card scanner, I am somewhat glad that most of us favor something a little more “ordinary” when it comes to business cards.

Any companies provide such a service in the UK

wow, this are really cool. Now I’m inspire to make one myself. Thanks

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Awesome state of the art business cards!

-Jan

Hi,

These are really good designs for cards.

Great inspirational cards. Bringing innovative designs to life certainly doesn’t come cheap.

We are working a several great ones ourselves so once they are complete, we will showcase them.

Great inspirational cards.

WOW…looks awsome. I am going to redesign my standard business card after reading this article. Thank you for sharing such a good design idea. Thank you.

All cards are beautiful and cute, I like all those.

Some really unique and creative ideas…good stuff!

Cool! Very original business cards!
Here another collection interesting:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/biglietti_da_visita
Transparent business cards a touch of sprint!

These are some great designs. Does anyone know where they can be printed? I’ve asked around, but the scratch-off printing is maybe not so common…

I like the Version with the window. Great selection.

nice collection

I really liked it. I also gather a collection of business cards.

Excellent ideas! Some designs are really unique.

What a motley collection! Some were cute, a few were simply outrageous and the rest were trying too hard. I’m not sure how practical some of the designs really are.

Just think, how many of those ‘peg’ or ‘tape’ cards (Cehovin Eduard) can you really carry with you?

And of course, the production cost of a few of these designs can be really prohibitive (like the metal-embossed ones).

I guess, the list is nice to look at but may not be practical for actual use.

Great list!

I really like the digitopolis one it really has that intelligent fancy articulate feeling well done!

Its really amazing and beautiful. Thanks

Nice collection. I also like http://www.cardonizer.com Business cards gallery for inspiration. It is daily updated site with cool designs.

I agree designers have no limits to their imagination and creativity for the card designs, but the real world practicality of paying and producing these cards in numbers can be the reason why they fail. Or worse, people have no way to add them into their normal business card folders, so they get lost in the piles of papers on peoples desks.

This are some awesome designs you showed here. But I doubt that designs like these would work for more than one, two or 3 clients. They are individual of course but hart to sell I guess.

These are nice, but they must cost a fortune, and putting the $$ aside, the production must take at least 2 weeks.
I did a funny shaped business cards few years ago, it took 2.5 weeks to get them (from proof approval), because they had to make a die for the shape and go through different steps to get what I wanted… and yes it came out VERY expensive!
I don’t bother anymore with these crazy BC, unless you are a big company, I’m a freelancer and I now print my cards at http://www.myminicards.com because it fast, cheap and original (the size is different and I can print all of my portfolio), what’s even better is that I don’t need to print huge quantities to get a decent price (and be stuck with 1 design for months/years), with them, I print a new batch of 100 every now and then.

Great creative business cards. I’ve got alot of creative ideas from your post. thanks

fantastic!!!! really fantastics!!!!

I love these! Have you ever seen the Google business card that they were giving out to new users for Google Profiles? Just wrote a blog about it http://www.searchschwag.com.

I’ve been on your site tons of times though. It’s helped me come up with almost all of my business card ideas (I do graphic design on the side)/

Beautiful collection bro.. I really appreciate your business cards design work. Truly creative designs.

Great Designs, love the Austin Walsh cards!

wowowowow……………………..

I love them all! I came up with my own unique business card idea at http://www.PromoBills.com. Instead of handing out a regular business card, I can hand out “Million Dollar Bills” with all my contact info. The best thing is people keep them because I can put whatever info on the back in the huge space that I want. People get a kick out of em

HATS OFFFF

all the rare business card!!nice!!

good ideas, but ……some are leaning out from the flow of reality

That’s professional design, thank you for idea

Very innovative designs ……….. awesome

wow varieties of design…… amazed

These are some amazing designs. Unfortunately, I bet most of them will not help do what they are suppose to do…namely earn their respective companies more business. My guess is that they are so expensive that the card holders hand out far fewer then they would with traditional cards. I’m sure they make the card owners happy though. Every time they look at their ‘cool cards’ they feel good about themselves. I prefer to feel good about myself when my bank account statement shows an extra zero at the end.

Great Creativity, fancy cards! But I wonder if they really work in professional world.

I liked this thank you. Also see http://www.webbyarts.com/business-cards/100-awesome-creative-most-beautiful-business-card-inspirations.html

some of these are great designs, thanks for the post

Awesome business cards, must be expensive!

Some original stuff in there (like the scratchcard). I agree that most of these wouldn’t be financially viable for most companies.

As a web design company we were thinking of having two business cards: a fancy card for big clients or those we want to impress with our designs and a second ‘more standard’ and cost effective version of the business card for general use.

To those who would mock these based on cost:
If you note, many of these are very high end companies and as a company expands/grows, the biz card budget does too.
Investing in a high end card says you care about your company’s image and that you’re not afraid to make that investment in a contact.
Besides, if you make good contacts and relations, you can swing a great deal with a great idea, it’s just worth it.

Investing in a high end card says you care about your company’s image and that you’re not afraid to make that investment in a contact.

Great collection of high end business cards. I’m in agreement that if you can afford a unique design that helps you stand out in a see of boring white cards, go for it. It’s the same creativity that probably set your company apart in the first place.

Very nice roundup! Thanks!

What great inspiration! This truly shows a labor of love. I really enjoy the creativity and boundaries that were pushed here. Very innovative and inspirational. Thanks for sharing!

Enjoyed these! Inspiring! Thank you

WOOOOOW….PERIOD

these are really amazing designs
truly inspiring

Awesome collection.Innovation at its best!

Wow…… It’s really impressive. I am totally crazy about this post. As the post really contains the best of designs business cards. As the business card is really playing the best of role to represent your profile, regarding services and company view. So they should be effective and with great look.

business card printing

such an awesome design for a tiny thing. your such an inspiration for many great artists in the world. This is the future.. keep it up! and hopefully more designs to come!

There are some really inspirational designs here – it would have to be a well equipped business card printing firm to be able to pull them off!

Awesome collection.

LOL! I like the peg one. I can use it in many creative ways.

Very nice cards, an inspiration for many designers!Thanks for posting

This is the future.. keep it up! and hopefully more designs to come!