As designers, we are generally not known for our business acumen. Generally, we’d rather be designing someone else’s project than figuring out how to make more money for ourselves. Here is a fascinating interview via Mixergy.com with a bootstrapping design entrepreneur who built WooThemes into a $2+ million annual business. WooThemes, is a blog template, […]
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March 1, 2010
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The Greatest Business Card Design of All Time?
By Miguel in Business Cards, Business Identity, MarketingThis has got to be my favorite business card designs of all time. It’s the work of the talented Spanish designer Sergio del Puerto, who runs the Madrid-based design and art direction studio called Serial Cut. The card’s design demonstrates some important aspects of good communications, corporate identity and marketing design: It’s humorous without being […]
Tags: Business Cards, Studios
February 25, 2010
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Beautiful Business Card Designs that Really Leverage the Medium
By Miguel in Business Cards, Business Identity, Design, Marketing, Printing
Beautiful Business Card Designs that Really Leverage the Medium
By Miguel in Business Cards, Business Identity, Design, Marketing, Printing
I noticed this recent blog entry on a website geared toward graphic designers that—in addition to an impressive gallery of images of business card designs that use traditional but more advanced printing techniques—brushes upon some important points. The first is that it is pretty hard to stand out from the crowd these days as a […]
Tags: Branding, Business Cards, Design, Marketing, Printing techniques
February 12, 2010
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Your Business Card Says a Lot About You
By Miguel in Business Cards, Business Identity, DesignNo one but no one talks about business cards or business card design these and certainly no one talks about business card etiquette on the web. So when we found this blog article entitled Business Card Elegance And Etiquette by Search Marketer Max Kalehoff we took note. In a digital world comprised of social media, […]
Tags: Business Card, Design, Printing
January 30, 2010
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Small business and self-employed marketing survey
By Miguel in StylomateManual of Style is Stylomate’s new blog that covers design and marketing trends for small businesses. Stylomate is communications design company whose aim is to help small business owners, especially those without dedicated marketing staff, and self-employed professionals create or access world-class design, technology and content to support their marketing efforts at prices they can […]