Why be limited to 3.5" x 2" anymore? Click to enlarge.

It’s the hot App on Facebook these days, “What jet are you?”,”What song are you?”, “What drink are you?” and so on.

Seriously though, as a creative professional, “What business card are you?” .  With all our expertise in graphics and the availability of inexpensive laser printing options, we need to start thinking out of the box guys.

Last weekend, I was inspired by a website recommended via Twitter from @nsmithmorgan.  The website was a collection of 100 uniquely inspired business cards.

So, I was needing new cards and showed the site to my wife over breakfast last Saturday and she immediately said “You need a card that folds like your Mac”, and voile, this is what I got.

It’s not a photo, but several rectangles with various gradients of gray applied and a blue “screensaver” where  my main message is.  The nice thing is I had them printed at the local Office Max on their laser printer  and therefore had the option of only making about fifty to start with.  I already know what I want to change, so the next iteration will be different; grays lighter, font different and so on. At least there were no typos

I just thought in this age of Content Management, where I preach to clients the wonders of easily managed content in their website [a la WordPress, Joomla, et al], why should I get locked in to ordering 500 boring, 3.5 x 2 business cards.  Now I am inspired to develop several business card templates and change them up (using my standard logo consistently of course).

Enjoy your new found freedom and be yourself in your business card development.