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Top 45: Business Card Inspiration – Foldable, Cutout’s or Origami design

24 Nov

While I was researching business cards for a client I saw many different types of Business Card Inspiration like Foldable, Cutout’s or Origami design an much much more. So I decided to make yet another post with inspiration.

I hope you can use some inspiration for your next project too. There are so many ways of making a visual identity stand out, like creating a business card, that clients don’t want to throw out – that’s also a sustainable way of designing.

If you can get clients to use your business card as something handy or beautiful – then do it, as it can make a lasting impression.

Check these business cards designs out – and if these designs are not enough then also see this: 100 inspirational business cards.

Ideas for Minimalistic Business cards – inspiration for design, visual identity and branding

16 Nov

My designer-friend collected over the years this entire look-book of awesome designs, inspiration for design, visual identity and branding. I am amazed how many amazing and well designed business cards and identities there are here.

I am so sorry I can’t credit the designers of these, so if you are one of the designers or creators of one of these, please write me in the comments and I will make sure to credit you. Thanks so much.

There are so many variants that make a great business card stand out. I have created a list of typical things I think can make a big difference:

  • Papertype (organic, white, coloured)
  • Thickness of the paper
  • Paper glued together to get a thicker quality or an edge with a color
  • Coloured edges
  • Coating on top of the paper
  • Embossed paper with a logo or similar
  • UV fernis
  • Spot UV fernis
  • Metallic overlay print
  • Cutouts
  • Original shapes of the paper
  • Foldable cards
  • Origami cards
  • Other material cards than paper (plastic, wood or metal)
  • Foil instead of print

You can also find 25 business cards as a nice inspiration here

Business Cards – The Minimalistic Lookbook of Ideas

Top 16 Modern Free Fonts for Designers in 2020

20 Jan

Originally post by Barnimages – Go check them out. I recommend subscribing to their newsletter. So many freebies to download – awesome!

Here we give you our edited version of Top 16 Modern Font Freebies for Designers in 2020. Go ahead and download alle of them!

Creating a design like business cards, wedding invitations and store fronts you need the right looking fonts that resonate with the job. Don’t forget about using great looking fonts when designing. Using bad fonts can leave your target group confusied. Make sure always to go on a hunt for the right font and download the cool ones while you can. Fonts can have quite high prices but it’s often worth it. BUT there are so many nice free fonts out there, so that is what this post is about.

Here is a selection that will help you find several modern and up-to-date freebie fonts. In this list, you will find fresh free fonts suitable for both minimalistic and elegant, as well as for luxury design projects.

Anita Jane Free font

Free font chic and romantic, yet modern looking font, available for free personal and commercial use.

Architectural Free font

Free font Architectural is a free, condensed, and stylish typeface, characterized by strict proportions and planned geometry. It is ideal for headlines and small text passages. The font contains capital letters and numbers and offers Cyrillic support.

Beway Free font

Free font Bewey is a new modern font freebie that is free for personal and commercial use. Bewey is a sans serif font perfect for headlines, branding advertisements, posters, logos, magazines, and more.

England Free font

Free font You know that your original name tag does not look good with overused sans serif, so here is something fresh, beautiful, and meaningful. This free font will add a distinctive touch to your perfect design. Free for commercial or personal use.

Giveny Free font

Giveny is a free serif typeface, which is characterized by a modern and professional design. This font is perfect for creating titles, logos and promotional material. You can use the Free font version for your personal projects, or purchase the full version for commercial use.

Grifter Bold Free font

Grifter Bold is a strong, assertive, and stylish typeface that can be used in a variety of designs. This typeface includes upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols, is multilingual and Free font for personal and commercial uses.

Halfomania Free font

Semifomania is a free futuristic sans serif Free font typeface, perfect for eye-catching logos, headlines, posters, titles, and much more. It is entirely free for personal and commercial use.

Lovebird Free font

Lovebird is a classic calligraphy font. Perfect for logo, label, badge, apparel design, merchandise, branding, packaging, quotes, business cards, wedding supplies, and much more.

Mojito Free font

Mojito is a refreshing sans serif font that is ready for anything! This handy semi-condensed typeface contains clean and structured typefaces, each with slanted versions. This versatile font is perfect for logos and branding, advertising, promotions and events, and countless other applications. It is equally comfortable to use in modern or vintage projects. This freebie is free for personal use only, but if you like the font, you can get the full version of Mojito here.

Nanotech Free font

Nanotech is a clean sans serif typeface with a strong visual impact. This font is perfect for logos, business cards, magazine layouts, headlines, product design, large-format artwork, and more.

Omega Sans Free font

Omega Sans is a classic sans serif typeface with balanced Beziér curves. This enjoyable font is very flexible and is great looking for headlines and titles. The font family is available in 4 weights (the regular one is available for free download) and supports multilingual accents for 120 Latin languages.

Radicals Free font

Radicals is a bold font. Perfect for your next creative project such as logo, printed quotes, invitations, cards, product packaging, headers, stationery, posters, clothing design, labels, etc.

Radio-Grotesk Free font

With established majuscules and refined minuscules – Radio Grotesque brings contemporary characteristics into a classic writing style. With its three weights, Radio Grotesque can be easily adapted to any project. Available free of charge for personal use.

Shamery Free font

Shamery is a free serif uppercase script. Suitable for luxurious and elegant design projects, this font is great on its own or paired with another script or sans font. It contains uppercase letters, numbers, and simple punctuation.

Tahu Free font

Tahu is a modern font with a minimalist design. It is perfect for T-shirt designs, website headlines, and social media posts. The font can be used freely for personal and commercial projects.

Wanderlust Free font

The Wanderlust typeface has a rustic, robust, powerful yet dynamic and distinctive character. Its serif form, both round and angular, is naturally inspired by landscape and mountain characteristics.

Want more free fonts and images?

Want to see more free fonts or photos – head over to the original post here on Barnimages.

Vlogging is more entertaining than blogging! Now I am a Youtuber…

15 Nov

Vlogging is more entertaining than blogging! Now I am a Youtuber...

Vlogging is more entertaining than blogging – I changed my scene… Yup! What I mean is that I usually wrote a lot before but now I can’t hold back anymore. I needed to talk and walk at the same time and record it. A lot of my blog posts are now actually video vlogs instead. As I think video makes more of a presence and feels better to interact with my viewers.

What platform should I use? Youtube or Facebook…

I started to use youtube some years back on my company channel youtube.com/macgeni and after some time I started my own private channel and removed irrelevant videos and just started uploading vlog videos. My goal is to make more videos with inspirational content or just my advise.

Why should I be interesting in a video?

I thought about this a lot as I feel I am a private person. But as I follow others like Peter McKinnon, Cody Wanner and Casey Neistat I started to feel that it doesn’t matter who you are. If I can inspire just 1 person – that will make me very satisfied. And I also have a lot of knowhow because of my interest for photography and video in my company barnerdesign.com I knew my interest will fuel my passion for creative creation.

I find that everyone is interesting if you find the time for them to find that something in them or their passion! I really enjoy people talt about their passions – and I love talking about my own and giving out good advice.

With that in mind I am not worried and after filming for a year though only releasing about 5-6 videos.

Editing videos – just takes a lot of time!

Perfectionists are impossible – and I am one… It just takes time to cut, edit, soundedit and color correct and much much more… Wow! I knew this before but now it seems I have just gotten better at making videos but that also takes me more time. I recommend keeping a schedule of when to upload. But I don’t have a lot of subscribers just yet. Maybe it will never happen – but I guess I am fine with it. As long as one person or more feels inspired.

What language should I speak!?

Yes I am a dane and I speak Danish as all other Danes in Denmark. But I can see on my MacGeni Channel on youtube that my English videos perform way better and the respons is just awesome. We as Danes do not ‘like’ things that much on social media it seems. We are not a very outgoing people – we tend to think “don’t think you are better than me!” which is a typical feeling many Danes will have. And I don’t care for it… So: I decided to speak English in my videos and yes that also makes me edit more video where I cut out all the mistakes haha!

Where you can see my video logs (vlogs)?

It would make me so happy to hear what you think of my videos? What type of content is entertaining you? Do you have favourite youtubers you would recommend? Please comment here on my blog or on one of my videos.

Can’t wait to hear what you like…?

Check out my videos:

FOLLOW ME ON YOUTUBE

Vlog – Episode 1: My Birthday

Vlog – Episode 2: Apple AirPods are they waterproof?

 

Vlog – Episode 3: My father did not expect this

VLOG – Episode 4: Push yourself and go travel alone

VLOG – Episode 5: Scared of being alone – this is how you get over it

 

VLOG – Episode 6: Recording a music video in France – “Food Rap”

Most amazing retro graphic design book publishing store in New York City

6 Apr

book - Most amazing retro graphic design book publishing store in New York City

I got so inspired by this most amazing retro graphic design book publishing store in New York City. I was amazed by their wonderful book designs and graphic design skills in their layouts. I have made a nice collection here of what you can see and buy on their website. I can’t wait to visit next time I am in NYC to experience and feel their books. Finding a gem like this and with a very decent website is quite rare for me. It’s very retro most of what they have and in the most amazing way. I am not being paid or sponsored in any way by saying check out Standard Manual website and go explore their many books and so forth. You might wanna visit to get the full experience!

 

“Our mission is to archive and preserve artifacts of design history and make them available to future generations. From reprinted graphics standards manuals to new compendiums of archival work, our titles always aim to make great design available to all.”

 

Standard Manual is apperantly an independent publishing imprint founded by two guys, Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth and I just love how passionate the guys are by just going through their website.

On their about page you can read more about their passion like:

 

“As designers ourselves, we value high quality books. As an independent publisher, we produce our books using only the finest papers, printing, and finishing methods. We don’t cut corners when it comes to quality.”

 

Source: standardsmanual.com