Busi­ness cards are one of the unsung heroes of the econ­omy — for net­work­ing to bear fruit the peo­ple you meet have to keep and remem­ber your busi­ness card — so it’s worth mak­ing them mem­o­rable. Here are 10 Busi­ness of my favourite busi­ness card designs from around the web. Trend­Hunter has a list of 26 but their design is clunky and requires a lot of click­ing around.  Oth­ers come from this Toxel col­lec­tion.

1. Pop Up Busi­ness Cards
   These will make you stand out from the pack. Lit­er­ally. They’re from a graphic design stu­dio.
   
2. Car­da­pult — a busi­ness card that con­verts into a cat­a­pult — from a mechan­i­cal engi­neer. There’s a video of it in action here. And instruc­tions for how to make your own here.
   
3. Minifig your­self — I’ve posted this one before — but it’s wor­thy of a rerun — if you work for Lego you get your own lego fig­urine busi­ness cards, they even cus­tomise them to look like you.
   
4. The lock pick kit — per­fect for lock­smiths — pro­duced for a “hacker” — this lit­tle card con­tains a work­ing lock pick set.
   
5. Google Me card — I’ve fea­tured this one before too — from Ji Lee — it’s for the techno savvy entre­pre­neur who reli­giously main­tains their web rep­u­ta­tion — you would have to check pretty reg­u­larly that you haven’t been super­seded by a triath­lete, singer, crim­i­nal or foot­ball player.
   
6. The auto dial­ing busi­ness card — Tom Ward cre­ated a busi­ness card that uses elec­tronic sig­nals to cause your phone to dial his num­ber. Sound clever? Want to find out how he did it? Here you go (or as a PDF).
   
7. Money — A sig­nif­i­cantly deval­ued cur­rency opens up the pos­si­bil­ity of using money to make money — a Zim­bab­wean hunter did just that — using bank notes as busi­ness cards. Talk about a sil­ver lin­ing. But there’s a cloud too — he had to pay a fine or serve a jail term for defac­ing cur­rency.
   
8. Smashed plates — if you run a tra­di­tional Greek restau­rant and want to put your smashed plates to good use — try this:
   
9. Or if you’re a debt col­lec­tor with a pen­chant for break­ing limbs… you could try this:
   
10. Encour­age a grow­ing busi­ness — this designer wanted to leave an impres­sion so went out on a limb to pro­duce this growth model:
    
    

Author: Nathan Campbell

Nathan runs St Eutychus. He is currently a student at the Queensland Theological College. In a previous professional life he worked in public relations for an economic development and tourism marketing organisation. He is married to Robyn. He likes coffee and the internet.

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