Do companies still request (good) business card de

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#1

I’m curious, as business has almost all but moved online, do companies/clients still request business card designs? I mean, good, clever, memorable designs, rather than the stock standard basic card all corporates still tend to use.
If you’ve seen good examples of business card design lately, I’d love to see it/hear about it.

#2

I’ve worked on a number of solid logo projects over the past few years – only one of them required a business card as part of the package. It seems like the folks that want a business card take the logo and upload it to an online printer’s template.

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#3

In 25 years the only people I’ve designed business cards for were my dad and my sister. No one else ever asked. I think business cards are obsolete.

#4

I keep a pile of people’s business cards in my desk drawer. There’s one from the guy I met at the green waste recycling place, one from my doctor with an appointment written on the back, one from my auto mechanic, and one from the rain gutter cleaning people that they slid under my front door.

Digging deeper, here’s one from my insurance agent and another from a guy who wants to be my insurance agent. I also picked one up at the pet emergency hospital, where we took our dog. Speaking of our dog, I have a business card from the dog boarding place we use.

There are several more in the pile that I’ll skip. I don’t think exchanging business cards is as important as it was 20 or 30 years ago, but they’re still useful, depending on the business and the situation. For many companies that rely on person-to-person contacts, they’re nearly essential.

Years ago, a logo, business card, and stationery were standard fare when working on a new business’s visual branding. Today, I avoid start-up jobs, so I’m uncertain what’s typical anymore.

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#5

I do 5-6 business card designs every week. Whether they actually use them or not, people here at least, still see a value in having them.

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#6

I’ve only designed business cards for a couple of clients in the last 20 years.
Not really seeing a need for them these days…

#7

I have designed couple of business cards to mine clients. I also think they are still useful nowadays. For example: you meet with someone and give them your card.

#8

I haven’t done generic company cards for a while now – apart from for my own band to give to potential venues.

I do, however, do the odd specific cards as part of overall brand collateral: ‘Thanks for staying with us. Get ten percent of your next stay with this card’, kind of thing.

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