Folded Business Cards
Got lots to say when passing on your details? Why squeeze your message onto just a double sided flat business card when you can so easily have folded?
There are pro’s and con’s for this option of course, but if you feel like you just need to say a lot its a way of achieving that without ruining the aesthetics of your business card with squashed unreadable text rammed edge to edge.
Below you can see a collection of photographs I took of the folded business cards I had designed and printed for Timesavers last year (You can view other designs from their brand project on the main website >>)
Whilst these look great and yes you gain more space, the disadvantage is how much space they will take up in your card holder. In addition, of course folded cards are more costly to print compared to flat double sided business card printing.
Here are a couple of tried and tested sources quality sources of folded business card printing:
Folded Business Cards From Stress Free Print
Folded Business Cards From Cards Made Easy
January 30th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
Never really thought of folded designs or seen them in use before! Great identity you did for timesavers by the way.
February 3rd, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Thanks Danny, got to say though, that with the card 350gsm card weight and the fold, they really are quite clunky. Look very nice though compared to bog standard flag cards and of course the benefit of space for info and clean design.
I’m thinking that if anyone ever does folded business cards that it might be better if the card weight is something like 250gsm maximum to get rid of some of the bulk for the fold. Which would mean asking the print firm for a custom job most likely.
I’d love to be involved in some more unusual card designs one day, you know like on metal, plastic, die cut and what not.
Like these! http://www.crazyleafdesign.com/blog/35-cool-and-inspirational-business-card-designs/
Unfortunately ideas like these cost money to print (let alone design) and most of my ’small business’ clients would baulk at the overall cost of design and print f… lol … darn it - creativity costs.
xx
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:00 pm
And these!
http://www.noupe.com/design/60-unusual-business-card-ideas.html