Your business card

Aurum

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As a thought (My cards are standard boring corporate text)

Reps from Eastman Chemical (Related to a film manufacturer you might of heard of) use to hand out cards on standard photo paper with a passport sized mugshot on the right hand side.

And yes it was on Kodak pro colour paper, It says so quite clearly on the back!
 

Valerie

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Mine isn't exactly a business card. Its a Moo card (shown front and back), from Flickr. Some artists I was showing with turned me on to them... small and fun!
 

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Akki14

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Valerie - I've been considering making some cyanotype business cards but then remembered I had used moo cards before just for fun.

Now, is it really a business card if you don't have a business as such :confused: I just thought it'd be good to hand out something when talking to people so they can look at my stuff.
 

Michel Hardy-Vallée

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I went for minimal, and linguistically ambiguous.
 

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Akki14

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Contrastique - I think you should consider making your name a bit bigger or bolder so it separates a bit more from the background. I find it slightly hard to read as it is. Cool design otherwise though.
 

wazza

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My Card

My card is shaped like a film leader, I had a knife cut to do this but it could be done by hand.
Regards
Wazza
 

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2F/2F

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I just got them for the first time. I feel like such a sleazeball clown when I give them to people. I just grew weary of borrowing a pen and writing my number on napkins or receipts or other peoples' business cards.

They are white with Times font black letters. My name is in the middle, and my number and email and what I do are down on the bottom.
 

wazza

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Generally your older style printers will be able to do this, you provide them with your card design in Pdf format they then send to a knife cutting manufacturer (they generally do all the knife cutting forms for box packaging and creasing) I had the card folded in the centre also which gives a much neater finished job.
You can use silver card with a black overprint, I preferred this to a white lettering format as it added to the notion of my love of silver halide printing.
Suggest you try your local traditional printer as any xerox or digital printing cannot match this quality, I live in the Blue Mountains 100kms west of Sydney Australia so a bit difficult to advise on your local print scene. I would add that it is not cheap but have to say the response to my card has been really good.
Good Printing
Regards
Wazza
 

PanaDP

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I stamp mine in ink on pieces of 35mm waste film I took from a job. Anything less than 100 feet is considered waste so it's easy to keep myself in cheap card material. The stamp cost me about $20 from staples. It simply reads:

Christopher Keth
Camera Assistant, Operator
724-561-9172
chris@christopherketh.com
ChristopherKeth.com
 

PhotoBob

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My most current card

Here is the most current rendition of my calling card.
I wouldn't say I actively promote business, but I think it fits the type of work I do and will suffice for the clientele.
 

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Bosaiya

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Front and back. It has been commented upon that the front is eerily close to a self-portrait.

 

Maris

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I can't show you mine because I don't fuss with scanners but the words on the back read: "GUARANTEED NO DIGITAL OR YOUR MONEY BACK". Above the words is a line drawing of a Tachihara 810GF view camera.

The front of the card announces "Original Photographs" and includes a recent mug-shot the same as my avatar.
 

phc

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Mine's very simple:



Because I tend to move around I just write my current phone number on the back.

Cheers, Paul.
 

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JOSarff

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I notice that most of you only put website information for contact.

Mine has name, address, telephone, fax, email and website aside from a logo and graphics.

Am I careless, crazy, or from another time when full info was ok?

Joe
 

Peter Markowski

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My card is photographic paper that I print with many different images. I print two on a 4x6 paper, and trim with an olfa blade leaving a 3/16 white boarder, and my name and contact info is burned in a second pass with the enlarger and lithography film negative. I pick my font on my desktop and then email it in to the lith people, after I pick up the sheet of black acetate with the info, cut, and assemble on the easel. I can then tailor images for the wedding crowd, art, or portrait group. I end up with a run of 15-25 cards per group and change the image constantly. I don't know if tailored images help with buisness but there are a lot nicely leveled cafe tables where I live.
 

naeroscatu

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I have a business card for my 9-5 job that is not photography related. Is it OK to make a business card stating "photographer" or "photography services" if I'm not really making a living out of it? I mean once i a while people are interested and would like to buy prints so I guess I should be able to put my contacts on a piece of paper. What do you think?
 
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