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25 Beautiful Business Card Designs | Digital Concepts, Modern Design

Check out the link below for a great post with some inspiring business cards. Personally I just love the simple minimalist designs like the Big Fat Media card and “one off” but I always seam to over design stuff before I can real it all back in to something simpler

Beautiful Business Card Designs (22)

25 Beautiful Business Card Designs | Digital Concepts, Modern Design.

20+ Extraordinarily Creative Business Card Designs

Designzzz recently started a string of articles about effective usage of business cards. Two articles have been published in this series, and this inspirational article is another sequel. In the first article, it was mentioned that designers should grab several business cards for inspiration. Here, we are furnishing that inspiration, in a gallery of over 20 creative business card designs.For a larger view or further information about any of these cards, please click the relevant image, all the images are linked to the sources.The first two articles were:Things to Remember while Designing a Business CardEffective Networking through Business Card

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Affordable Lealfet Printing

Budget Leaflet Printer Lealfet Printing

Are you trying to find an inexpensive however skilled leaflet printing service? Are you unsure as to which leaflet printing firm to decide on? When you have answered both or each of those questions with a “yes” then I totally perceive your predicament as I was in precisely the same scenario three months ago.An efficient advertising software that has helped so many companies reach out and talk with their target clientele are items of paper containing interesting data often known as flyers or leaflets .

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Creative Review – SHA’s typographic diary

Creative Review – SHA’s typographic diary.

Read the full story on the CR website. It’s a job very nicely done but I have to ask in a world of smart phones, iPhones and iPads who uses a diary anymore. I’m sure all recipients will love the thing and paw over it lots before shoving it in a desk draw never to be used or seen again until they have a clear out. Surely the whole point of this thing is to keep the brand in front of people everyday.

It sounds more like a coffee table book with all its contents and maybe thats what it should be as paper diary’s are so last decade!

The Secret Law of Page Harmony – Retinart

As last post but magazine

The Secret Law of Page Harmony – Retinart: “Minimal Magazine Spread

One with which I truly had some fun.

I worked to have the text play within the guides, rather than be manipulated by them. The baseline of the intro paragraph sits near the 1/6th intersection, the tower sits so the island upon which it stands is at the bottom of the textblock but the cross-page diagonal shoots right through the middle of it.

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The Secret Law of Page Harmony – Retinart

If you have been asked to design and layout a book recently then this is a must read.

The Secret Law of Page Harmony – Retinart: “This method existed long before the computer, the printing press and even a defined measuring unit. No picas or points, no inches or millimeters. It can be used with nothing more than a straight edge, a piece of paper and a pencil.

And you can still use it. This is a system which is still as valid, beautiful and elegant with ultra-modern design as it ever was for the work of the scribes, Gutenberg and Tschichold.
The Secret Canon & Page Harmony

Books were once a luxury only the richest could afford and would take months of work to be brought to fruition.

And they were harmoniously beautiful.

The bookmakers knew the secret to the perfect book. They shared among themselves a system—a canon—by which their blocks of text and the pages they were printed on would “agree with one another and become a harmonious unit.”

So elegant is this method of producing harmony that a few designers saw to rediscover it. Even though it was considered a trade-secret, they all came to the same conclusion, hundreds of years apart, independent of one another, but each supported by the other.

Magazine Advert Design Competition 2010 – Heart Internet

Magazine Advert Design Competition 2010 – Heart Internet:
Advert Design Competition
“Prizes Share This Advert Design Competition Back for 2010…

Do you want to see your work published in a national magazine read by tens of thousands of readers and seen by all of our customers on our website, blog and customer newsletter? And on top of all that, be given a 27′ iMac, a 32GB iPod touch, a year’s free reseller hosting and a free domain name, all worth over £2,000!

We are looking for an inspired designer to create a brand new magazine advert that will set Heart Internet apart from our competitors and showcase our market leading Reseller Hosting product.
How to enter

We would recommend you start by reading the design brief below and take a look at last year’s entrants. Once you are happy with what we are looking for, start weaving your design magic and then send it to us via the upload tab below (Note: file size cannot exceed 6MB).
The closing date is 15/08/10.

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if you have food a roof and clothes

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NO!SPEC

NO!SPEC 180wide with URL

If you ever wondered why people should expect you to do spec work and effectively work for free! you need to check this out and get behind this campaign.

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