30 Design Tutorials For Creating Professional Business Cards

• May 10th, 2010
• Tutorials

An collection of design tutorials which will guide you through the process of creating your very own business card, including showing you how to bleed a business card in order for it to be ready for print. A wide collection of tutorials which I’m more than certain that will teach you everything which you need to know about preparing business cards for print as well as creating good business cards. With this fountain of knowledge your be on the right path to start your own business card printing.

Feel free to share any good business card design tutorials which you may feel that we may have missed from this compilation, in the comment below it would be more than appreciated.

Last year we put together an inspiration post which consisted of clever and creative business cards a great inspiration post which gets your creative juices flowing in order to create your own unique business cards, check it out.

1. Design a Print Ready Business Card for Designers

Business cards are a useful resource for any business, for designers in particular it gives an opportunity to create something a little out of the ordinary and artistic to showcase their creative flair. Follow this walkthrough in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign to create your own double sided business card design, resulting in a print-ready file to send to your favoured print firm.

2. Create a Business Card in Illustrator and Print it with UPrinting

Business cards are a useful resource for any business, for designers in particular it gives an opportunity to create something a little out of the ordinary and artistic to showcase their creative flair. Follow this walkthrough in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign to create your own double sided business card design, resulting in a print-ready file to send to your favoured print firm.

3. Create a Slick Business Card Design with Stunning Typography

Whatever profession you’re in, there’ll come a time when you’ll need your own business card. This graphic design tutorial will show you a way to create a standard two-sided business card design in Adobe Photoshop that you can take to your printer.

4. Design a Clean Striped Business Card in Illustrator

In this tutorial you are going to be creating a sleek striped business card from scratch in Illustrator CS4, using various tools and techniques. As well as creating this business card yourself, you can also download the business card for free along with a corresponding letterhead.

5. How To Create A Sweet Bokeh Business Card In Photoshop

In this tutorial you are going to be creating a sleek striped business card from scratch in Illustrator CS4, using various tools and techniques. As well as creating this business card yourself, you can also download the business card for free along with a corresponding letterhead.

6. Creating a Colorful Vibrant Business Card

Every Designer definitely needs a Business Card or Information card of some sort, even if it’s just a piece of paper with your name and number on, ok well not just a piece of paper. A designer has to brand him/her self with uniqueness to catch a clients eye.

7. How to Design an Abstract Business Card in

Photoshopn this tutorial It will teach you how to design an abstract business card using a combination of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. We will be using Photoshop as a base for our business card, all whilst using Illustrator to create some clean, abstract shapes to use in our abstract business cards.

8. Design a cool and original jeans style Business Card in Photoshop

This tutorial will guide you through the process of designing a professional jeans style business card. The tutorial features some great techniques, effects and layer styles in which you can use over and over for future projects.

The business card has the standard USA and Canada cut of 3.5×2 inches , approximately 10×5 cm.So if you`ll follow the tutorial,at the end you`ll be able to print the business card for your use.

9. Making a Print-Ready Business Card Using Only Photoshop

In this tutorial, you are going to design up a simple business card in Photoshop and get it ready for print with crop marks and bleed. Normally you’d do some of this with a tool like InDesign, but it is in fact possible to get by with just our trusty old Photoshop.

10. Tutorial – How To Create Print Ready Standard Size Business Cards

Designing business cards is a fun process. And you can create them really fast, because they are generally simple things. In this tutorial you will learn how to create print ready standard size business cards with Photoshop. If you follow these guidelines you’ll soon be able to create your own business cards.

11. Tutorial – How To Create Print Ready Standard Size Business Cards

There’s nothing more unique to your creative talent than a series of your own doodles and sketches. Let’s use the good old doodle to represent our design services by combining quick and fun doodles with a print ready business card design. We’ll be drawing our doodles directly in Illustrator, and using the application’s print abilities to set up our business card document with the correct margins and bleed to build a complete print-ready PDF document.

12. How To Create A Colorful Business Card Template in Illustrator CS4 (+ free template)

In this tutorial we’re going to be designing a bright, colorful and “happy” business card design from scratch in Adobe Illustrator CS4.

13. PSD Tutorial: Design a Dirty Business card

Business card is a great way to express their brand and especially every designer or client must have. The clients always look out the professionalism in you and later the cost, like that! The way you make your business card will stand out from the crowd. To make biz cards we have to follow very few guidelines, and apart from that not stick to the same fact or style.

14. Designing a Professional Business Card in Photoshop

A professional business card is vital to successfully representing your business. PSD Nation has created an easy-to-follow tutorial showing the steps to create a fantastic business card.

15. Cardboard And Torn Paper Business Card

In this Advanced Photoshop tutorial we’ll create a nice cardboard effect and play with a neat torn edge effect.

16. Design Slick Print Ready Business Card Using Photoshop

how to design your own double sided business card in Photoshop and get it ready for print. Recently there was a business cards giveaway here on webexpedition18.com, and that inspired them to write this tutorial.

17. Business Card Design Project Walkthrough

The project was for James Clarkson; a driving instructor working out of Tadcaster near York with his business, Visibility Driving Tuition.

18. Designing a Business Card with WL-OL244 Template

Although I no longer bother to print letterhead or envelopes for my design business (thank you, email!), I’d be lost without a business card. Not only are business cards still traded in the real world, but often it’s the business card itself that helps generate business. Plus, if you’re a graphic designer like me, having a good looking card acts like a mini-portfolio of your skills.

19. Create a Stylish Business Card in Photoshop

his tutorial is something inspired by “Ismaelgnc’s Business Cards” on flickr. I like the idea and the way of presentation, so they decided to share the steps behind creation of Business Cards but in their own way. So lets start with it…!!

20. Creating a new Business CardListThumbs

The business card… is kind of an extension of yourself. It’s a little bit of giving yourself to someone else.”
— Ken Erdman, founder of the Business Card Museum, Erenheim, PA

21. Making a beautiful Business card

There are many different ways to attack a business card design. Clean & corporate is always nice. But why not get a little wild? This tutorial will walk you through setting up a horizontal beautiful business card.

22. Unusual Presentation Your Business Card

Here is special useful tutorial how to create unusual presentation for your business card. I hope it will be very interesting for you.

23. Unusual Presentation Your Business Card

Here is special useful tutorial how to create unusual presentation for your business card. I hope it will be very interesting for you.

24. Personal card with your face

An simply tutorial on how to create an awesome business card.

25. How to setup a business card in Photoshop

Setting up a business card is fairly simply. Maybe you’re the type of person who simply wants text on your business cards, and want to exclude the design portion. Well if you don’t want to pay a designer to do the work for you, you can do it yourself, have it ready and send it off to print.

26. Design a business card in photoshop tutorial

A slick grungy red design tutorial.

27. Make ambient design tutorial

A tutorial which shows you how to create a simply business card.

28. Create a Business Card in Photoshop

Why pay someone to make business cards for you when you can do it yourself? All you need is Adobe Photoshop, a printer, and some cardstock (available at Staples or similar stores). This tutorial will teach you how to make a basic business card. This is by no means the only way, and you can alter the design any way you want. Just do whatever you think will look best.

29. Ideas for business card layouts

Designing business cards can sometimes be tough especially seeing as you often need to cram in a whole lot of information including name, company title, address along with a person’s contact details, which can sometimes limit your creativity.

30. Create a cool grunge business card

Grunge designs are now the latest trend for print and web. In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a cool business card.