exljbris type foundry business card

This purely typographic business card belongs to Jos Buivenga, a typographer, owner of exljbris type foundry and creator of the popular Museo family of typefaces.

The minimal design allows the “type” to speak for itself and represents the principle business activity of the company.

Minimal business cards.

Let me count the ways: black and white business cards are simple, elegant, minimal, beautiful, bold, classic, handsome, etc., etc.

Here and here are some galleries of minimal business cards. I can’t argue with the author on one post who says:

Why go too crazy when you can keep it simple and elegant with black & white. A great business card design can be in any form of design or color, but sometimes all you need is to keep it simple in order for guaranteed success…

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A Landor Project, via LogoDesignLove.

A New York Times illustration by the Brooklyn-based studio, Rumors.

Here are two things that that caught my eye today and are rather inspiring in their own right.