The Card Observer… Observes Cards
I found a great new resource via Under Consideration’s Quipsologies (via Nice Fucking Graphics). Card Observer
is a new site that showcases only the best business card designs. We do this for a couple of reasons: to shine the spotlight on the talented designers who create these beautiful cards, and to inspire you.
As opposed to the Book Cover Archive the creators of this website rely on people sending in their creations. If you feel like you’ve designed a card or own one that deserves a place in their gallery, don’t hesitate to submit it.
The website must be pretty recent. The first entry in the gallery dates from January 21st, 2009, and the site currently displays just under 90 entries. It is pretty basic – each entry has a concise explanatory text, and designer and/or client are mentioned and linked. The quality of the featured cards is pretty high, with nice designs, fun shapes and often special printing techniques – a good number are printed in letterpress or feature special inks or die cuts. I’m looking forward to see this archive grow and flourish.
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14 Comments:
marian bantjes is amazing.
Wow! Talk about delicate and detailed. People will definitely keep Marians card. Can’t find her website though.
It’s here. Dunno what that Quatrifolio domain is all about.
I’ll have to ask her why the stress on the A is inverted tho. :P
the card is a powerful marketing tool.
Quatrifolio was Marian’s old domain.
It’s weird how having the stress on the A inverted makes the rest of the word feel like a slope or something… for me at least. When you go against conventions it does strange things to the psyche.
what is the font marian has use for her details at the bottom?
That’s FF Eureka. She used it for years on her personal stuff and I thought it looked great.
@Joseph: I don’t mind Marjan doing strange things to my psyche, on the contrary. She’s a fascinating artist. ;)
If this is her old domain and the Card Observer website is barely one month old this means her card is very successful, as somebody obviously hung onto it. Mission accomplished.
BTW The SimpleBits card is a nice example of Fresco Sans in use. And indestructible ’90s icon Triplex Sans is still in use (on Matt Coffman’s card). Does it look dated?
thanks stephen, eureka does look nice…
@Ronnie, http://www.bantjes.com/
I have a feeling her choice regarding the stress on the A had to do with its relationship to the V. Maybe the two thicks next to each other didn’t feel right to her.
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